The federal debt has increased by $1,303,466.578.471.45 since last Thanksgiving, according to data released by the U.S. Treasury.
That is the largest Thanksgiving-to-Thanksgiving increase in the debt in nine years. The last time the debt increased more from Thanksgiving to Thanksgiving was in 2010, when it increased by $1,785,995,360,978.10.
It also equals approximately $10,137.48 per household in the United States.
Happiness is a warm gun and trump spending millions and millions of our money so his old fat white ass can play golf poorly!!!!!! And the slurpers will swallow!!!!
ump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Nov. 27, 2019. Trump is spending Thanksgiving week at his nearby Mar-a-Lago estate. (Photo: Susan Walsh/ASSOCIATED PRESS) With his Thanksgiving vacation, President Donald Trump’s golf hobby has now cost Americans an estimated $115 million in travel and security expenses ― the equivalent of 287 years of the presidential salary he frequently boasts about not taking.
Of that amount, many hundreds of thousands ― perhaps millions ― of dollars have gone into his own cash registers, as Secret Service agents, White House staff and other administration officials stay and eat at his hotels and golf courses.
The exact amount cannot be determined because the White House refuses to reveal how many Trump aides have been staying at his properties when he visits them and will not turn over receipts for the charges incurred.
No Record Can be Found of Trump’s "No Quid Pro Quo" Call With Sondland
Washington Post: “Sondland’s recollection of a phone conversation that he said took place on Sept. 9 has emerged as a centerpiece of Trump’s defense as House Democrats argue in an impeachment inquiry that he abused his office to pressure Ukraine to investigate Democrats.
“However, no other witness testimony or documents have emerged that corroborate Sondland’s description of a call that day.
“Trump himself, in describing the conversation, has referred only to the ambassador’s account of the call, which — based on Sondland’s activities — would have occurred before dawn in Washington. And the White House has not located a record in its switchboard logs of a call between Trump and Sondland on Sept. 9, according to an administration official.”
Business Insider: The White House has reportedly been unable to find any record of the call where Trump told Sondland there was 'no quid pro quo' with Ukraine
A Trump administration official has told The Washington Post that the White House has been unable to find any record of the September 9 call between President Donald Trump and EU ambassador Gordon Sondland.
Both men have said that during the call that Trump told Sondland he sought "no quid pro quo" deal, and wanted "nothing" in return for dealings with Ukraine.
The call has been pivotal to Trump's impeachment defense, with the president reading out sections of the call to reporters on the day Sondland delivered his testimony to the impeachment probe.
The White House has been unable to find any record of the September 9 phone call in which President Donald Trump allegedly told EU Ambassador Gordon Sondland that there was "no quid pro quo" with Ukraine and that he wanted "nothing" in his dealings with the country, according to a report from The Washington Post.
An administration official told The Post that White House staff had searched switchboards at the president's official residence on that date and found no record of the call, and no witnesses or documents have emerged to corroborate Trump and Sondland's account of the call.
In his defense against the impeachment probe, Trump has seized on the call as evidence that he sought no personal advantage in pressuring Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden, a leading Democratic contender for the 2020 presidential nomination.
Sondland has testified to the House impeachment probe that in the call Trump told him he sought no "quid pro quo" deal with Ukraine, or deal in which the delivery of $400 million in military aid was made conditional on Ukraine announcing a probe into Biden.
On the day Sondland gave his public testimony to the House impeachment probe, November 20, Trump in a briefing to reporters read out sections of the conversation from a hand-written note, based on Sondland's account of it.
"This is Ambassador Sondland speaking to me," Trump told reporters last week. "Here's my response that he just gave: 'I want nothing ... I want nothing. I want no quid pro quo.'"
The timing of Trump's claim that he sought no quid pro quo has come under renewed scrutiny this week, after it was revealed that the president was briefed about a whistleblower's complaint about his July 25 call with Zelensky in late August.
Those timings mean he was aware that his dealings with Ukraine were under scrutiny before he started issuing denials that he sought something from Ukraine.
Other impeachment witnesses have recalled Sondland telling them about a calls before the alleged September 9 call — on September 1 and September 7 – in which the president told him he wanted no "quid pro quo," but did want Ukrainian president to personally announce a Biden probe.
Sondland's attorney, Robert Luskin, told the Post: "He is aware of your story and will not comment beyond his descriptions of these matters in his deposition and public testimony."
The Guardian: “Three women say they faced sexual misconduct by Gordon Sondland before he was the U.S. ambassador to the European Union and at the center of the presidential impeachment inquiry. They say he retaliated against them professionally after they rejected his advances.
“In one case, a potential business partner recalls that Sondland took her to tour a room in a hotel he owns, only to then grab her face and try to kiss her. After she rejected him, Sondland backtracked on investing in her business." _________________
Commensa said Since God is all knowing he is never surprise by anything.
First of all, the word would be surprisED. (Why you so often get that wrong I will never understand.)
Second, I was only joking, but if you think God really did choose Trump to be President, in my humble opinion YOU are the one showing a profound ignorance of God.
Barr Never Asked Ukraine for Investigation November 28, 2019 at 10:51 am EST
The Financial Times profiles Ruslan Ryaboshapka, the new general prosecutor in Ukraine.
“Asked about a potential probe focusing on the Bidens and their connection with Ukrainian energy company Burisma, Mr Ryaboshapka said Mr Trump’s attorney-general William Barr had made no contact to formally request a joint investigation. A broader audit into past and current cases, including those involving Burisma, were under way, he said.”
Playbook: So after all of that, the Justice Department never asked for an actual investigation of Burisma and the Bidens?
Second, I was only joking, but if you think God really did choose Trump to be President, in my humble opinion YOU are the one showing a profound ignorance of God.
So you don't believe events are shaped by God?
I prefer Roger or CH. At least they are honest atheist.
I do not believe God "shapes" every tragedy. I do not believe God "willed" the Holocaust,the killing of ca. 6 million of Europe's Jews. Or the cruelty of the Nazis. Or the senseless assassination of Lincoln. Or the accident of an uncle of mine who died trapped and burning alive in an overturned automobile. Or the horrible sexual abuse of children and helpless women. And the list goes on and on and on...
Then it is men who do wrong, not God. You believe God "shaped" or wanted the election of Hitler? I do not. You believe God shaped and willed all the things I listed?
Also, there is accident. My uncle who came home from service in WWII did not "choose" to die in that car accident soon after returning. He did not "choose" evil. He had done nothing to "deserve" such a death.
The major part of the Book of Job was written to question the shallow theological position that all suffering is deserved punishment, as Job's three friends kept telling and accusing him, and as Job kept denying. And God in the end commended Job.
On Thanksgiving Day, we remember with reverence and gratitude the bountiful blessings afforded to us by our Creator, and we recommit to sharing in a spirit of thanksgiving and generosity with our friends, neighbors, and families.
Nearly four centuries ago, determined individuals with a hopeful vision of a more prosperous life and an abundance of opportunities made a pilgrimage to a distant land. These Pilgrims embarked on their journey across the Atlantic at great personal risk, facing unforeseen trials and tribulations, and unforetold hardships during their passage. After their arrival in the New World, a harsh and deadly winter took the lives of nearly half their population. Those who survived remained unwavering in their faith and foresight of a future rich with liberty and freedom, enduring every impediment as they established one of our Nation’s first settlements. Through God’s divine providence, a meaningful relationship was forged with the Wampanoag Tribe, and through their unwavering resolve and resilience, the Pilgrims enjoyed a bountiful harvest the following year. The celebration of this harvest lasted 3 days and saw Pilgrims and Wampanoag seated together at the table of friendship and unity. That first Thanksgiving provided an enduring symbol of gratitude that is uniquely sewn into the fabric of our American spirit.
More than 150 years later, it was in this same spirit of unity that President George Washington declared a National Day of Thanksgiving following the Revolutionary War and the ratification of our Constitution. Less than a century later, that hard-won unity came under duress as the United States was engaged in a civil war that threatened the very existence of our Republic. Following the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863, in an effort to unite the country and acknowledge “the gracious gifts of the Most High God,” President Abraham Lincoln asked the American people to come together and “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.” Today, this tradition continues with millions of Americans gathering each year to give their thanks for the same blessings of liberty for which so many brave patriots have laid down their lives to defend during the Revolutionary War and in the years since.
Since the first settlers to call our country home landed on American shores, we have always been defined by our resilience and propensity to show gratitude even in the face of great adversity, always remembering the blessings we have been given in spite of the hardships we endure. This Thanksgiving, we pause and acknowledge those who will have empty seats at their table. We ask God to watch over our service members, especially those whose selfless commitment to serving our country and defending our sacred liberty has called them to duty overseas during the holiday season. We also pray for our law enforcement officials and first responders as they carry out their duties to protect and serve our communities. As a Nation, we owe a debt of gratitude to both those who take an oath to safeguard us and our way of life as well as to their families, and we salute them for their immeasurable sacrifices.
As we gather today with those we hold dear, let us give thanks to Almighty God for the many blessings we enjoy. United together as one people, in gratitude for the freedoms and prosperity that thrive across our land, we acknowledge God as the source of all good gifts. We ask Him for protection and wisdom and for opportunities this Thanksgiving to share with others some measure of what we have so providentially received.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim Thursday, November 28, 2019, as a National Day of Thanksgiving. I encourage all Americans to gather, in homes and places of worship, to offer a prayer of thanks to God for our many blessings.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-seventh day of November, in the year of our Lord two thousand nineteen, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-fourth.
The dumb fuck of NY propagating the fake war on thanksgiving that was started on the moronic Fox Network and spread by trump and other idiots like you, rat!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim Thursday, November 28, 2019, as a National Day of Thanksgiving. I encourage all Americans to gather, in homes and places of worship, to offer a prayer of thanks to God for our many blessings.
Yes, Mrs. so and so, you must accept that it was God's will that your little daughter should die in that terrible accident/ or get raped by that pervert/ or die of that virulent disease. _____ I guess that's what Commensa thinks a pastor should say. I know it is not.
China Furious Over Hong Kong Bills November 28, 2019 at 10:54 am EST
Associated Press: “China reacted furiously Thursday to President Donald Trump’s signing two bills aimed at supporting human rights in Hong Kong, summoning the U.S. ambassador to protest and warning the move would undermine cooperation with Washington.” ______________
For once, Trump did the right thing by putting compassion, decency, and idealism above his own political advantage.
TRUMP DID THE RIGHT THING REGARDING HONG KONG, BUT THE WRONG THING REGARDING CONVICTED WAR CRIMINAL GALLAGHER, WHO WAS TURNED IN BY HIS OWN MEN BECAUSE OF HIS INHUMANE CRUELTY
In a scathing opinion piece for The Washington Post, Spencer hit out at Trump's "shocking and unprecedented" intervention, adding he believed the president's interest in the case stemmed from how the "defendant's lawyers and others had worked to keep it front and center in the media."
"It was also a reminder that the president has very little understanding of what it means to be in the military, to FIGHT ETHICALLY or to be governed by a uniform set of rules and practices," Spencer added.
Discussing the column, Hennessey said it is clear that Trump is not discharging his constitutional powers to serve the interest of the nation, but BECAUSE OF HIS POLITICAL INTERESTS and "what he sees on Fox and Friends…because he's captivated by a particular narrative."
Hennessey said: "Keep in mind that Gallagher's own men, his fellow sailors, actually turned him in. He's accused of actually threatening them for doing so. These are people who risk their careers because they saw somebody who they believed was doing something wrong, was VIOLATING THE LAW.
"People like [Defense Secretary Mark] Esper and Spencer need to be concerned about what message this sends to members of the military who want to do the RIGHT thing and see other people doing the WRONG thing. Is this going to send the message that you should just turn the other way and pretend as though you aren't seeing the kind of serious abuse that Gallagher is accused of?"
Guest host Jim Acosta pointed out that the "front and center in the media" line from Spencer's column was a clear reference to Fox News. "It seems to be yet another glaring example of this sort of symbiotic relationship between the president and his favorite network over at Fox, and how they can affect national security decisions, military justice decisions," he said.
CNN national security analyst Sam Vinograd agreed: "It's one thing for Fox analysts to offer their opinions, let's say on Gallagher's case. It is another thing for the president of the United States to make decisions based upon those analysts' opinions and NOT the opinions of his secretary of the Navy, members of his cabinet, or people that swear an oath to uphold the Constitution. So the fault here to me lies less with Fox News and more with the president."
Hennessey said: "Keep in mind that Gallagher's own men, his fellow sailors, actually turned him in. He's accused of actually threatening them for doing so. These are people who risk their careers because they saw somebody who they believed was doing something wrong, was VIOLATING THE LAW.
well pederast, it looks like the pussification of our military is just about complete.
"We are finding that there are a large number of trainees that come in that quite frankly just physically don't have the capacity to throw a hand grenade 20 to 25 to 30 meters. In 10 weeks, we are on a 48-hour period; you are just not going to be able to teach someone how to throw if they haven't thrown growing up."
Correction: TRUMP DID THE RIGHT THING REGARDING HONG KONG, BUT THE WRONG THING REGARDING ACCUSED WAR CRIMINAL GALLAGHER, WHO WAS TURNED IN BY HIS OWN MEN BECAUSE OF HIS INHUMANE CRUELTY
from our local newspaper THE PANTAGRAPH From the Pulpit James Boswell
If asked, what would you answer?
Amy-Jill Levine is a Jewish scholar who teaches New Testament at Vanderbilt, an interdenominational theological seminary.
Levine is in agreement with many other historical Jesus scholars that Jesus of Nazareth should not be dismissed as a myth, but that he really did exist. Although Levine as a Jew does not believe that Jesus was the messianic Son of God, she like many other historical Jesus scholars is convinced that Jesus himself believed he was the promised Messiah. Moreover, because he was deeply influenced by the apocalyptic thinking of his time, he was expecting that God would soon bring all creation to a violent end, to be followed by an eternal “Kingdom of God” divinely established over all the renewed earth. And that, Jesus expected, would take place in his own generation.
Of course that did not happen. But the evidence that Jesus was expecting it pervades the New Testament in gospel statements attributed to both Jesus and John the Baptist, and in the writings of the Apostle Paul and all the other New Testament authors.
In disagreement with several present-day scholars, Levine thinks that it was not just the later church, but probably Jesus himself who originally believed that he would suffer a God-willed death that would result in righteousness for many, a concept he “quite likely” derived from “Isaiah’s Suffering Servant songs, particularly Isaiah 53” (The Historical Jesus in Context, p. 37).
During a 2012 interview with U.S.Catholic magazine ("A Jewish Take on Jesus"), Levine was asked, “If you were to meet Jesus, what question would you have for him?” She replied that she would want to ask him, “What did you hope to accomplish?” She also said she would like to know what he was thinking while he was dying on the cross: Was he in complete despair, as suggested by the only words attributed to him in the first two gospels, or did he still believe that he would be resurrected from a martyr’s death to bring salvation to his people?
“What was he thinking?” she wondered. “And what would he want us to do with what he was thinking?”
Seeing that nearly two thousand years have passed without the fulfillment of Jesus’ expectations, I would also want to ask him that last question. ______________ Boswell is a retired Disciples of Christ pastor whose opinions on current Jesus studies can be found on the Info page of his website at www.TheDeadSeaGospel.com.
Trump Restarts Negotiations with Taliban November 28, 2019 at 2:10 pm EST
“President Trump paid an unannounced Thanksgiving visit to American troops here on Thursday, and said that he has restarted peace negotiations with the Taliban less than three months after he scuttled talks with the group,” the New York Times reports.
Said Trump: “The Taliban wants to make a deal, and we’re meeting with them.”
He added: “We’re going to stay until such time as we have a deal, or we have total victory, and they want to make to make a deal very badly.” ________________
File that under: HEAVEN HELP US!
Will that go as poorly as his negotiations with N. Korea, or with the Israelis and Palestinians, or with Russia, or with China, or with the EU, or with Turkey??
Whatever you think of the charges against President Trump on Russia or Ukraine, his position of resolute noncooperation with Congress should trouble you deeply. If Congress cannot exercise its core oversight capacity, obtain documents and subpoena administration officials to testify, the essential system of checks and balances has broken down. The presidency will have become an elected dictatorship.
No matter how hard the Socialist Democrats Pray and talk down the American Worker and put up road blocks on the USMC, WE KEEP GROWING. GDP revision Q3 2.1% consumer Confidence a strong 125
his position of resolute noncooperation with Congress should trouble you deeply.
hardly.
his position of resolute noncooperation is the perfect response to an impeachment inquiry constructed of resolute absurdity and dishonesty. there's nothing to take seriously of this inquiry, therefore trump's reaction to it is spot-on.
the essential system of checks and balances remains in fine fettle. what it does not contain is for some asshat or collection of asshats in the congress to wake up one morning and declare something as mundane as a telephone call with a foreign leader to be a high crime just because of a whopping case of election 2016 butthurt.
an honorable person takes trump head on at the ballot box in 2020.
a coward uses dishonesty and deception to remove him beforehand.
Wrong that you still bitch and moan about the lost years....which trump is now duplicating?????? God you are an obnoxiously stupid goat fucker....>BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
Former Rep. Charlie Dent (R-PA) told CNN that Republicans are in public “standing with the president for the moment,” despite the impeachment inquiry prompted by the Ukraine scandal.
He added: “But there’s no question, having spoken to many of them privately, they’re absolutely disgusted and exhausted by the president’s behavior. They resent being put in this position all the time.” ______________
Poor Ch has got to feel this way too, though he is not honest enough to admit it.
Politico: “President Trump needs two big achievements to keep markets and the economy as glittering assets in his challenging 2020 reelection bid: passage of a new NAFTA and a trade deal with China.
“But Democrats are stringing him along on the first — the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement — and he’s engaged in a seemingly endless rope-a-dope with China on the second with no guarantee of success. That’s left the economy as a major wild card for next year.”
Peter Geoghegan and Mary Fitzgerald: “Pity British voters. Not because they face a choice between two historically unpopular candidates for prime minister — Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn — on Dec. 12. Nor that they are being forced to trudge to polling stations for the third general election in five years, this time in the depths of the miserable British winter.
Rather, “pity British voters because they are being subjected to a barrage of distortion, dissembling and disinformation without precedent in the country’s history. Long sentimentalized as the home of “fair play,” Britain is now host to the virus of lies, deception and digital skulduggery that afflicts many other countries across the world.”
YEP, WE SURE KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT THAT IN OUR OWN COUNTRY.
Wow. Okay, this one was our bad. I want to sincerely apologize to everyone in Syria we just screwed over, I want you to know what we were really close to speaking up on this one, when it happened.
I know the whole premise of that letter I wrote to the New York Times last year was that by standing by Donald despite him being obviously unfit for the job and a danger to everyone around him to boot, I and the rest of senior leadership were doing the world a favor by keeping him from doing even worse things that none of you ever heard about, but this one was a humdinger. We did not see it coming.
Usually when the big idiot gets an idea in his head it's because he sees it on Fox News or one of his jackass advisers has handed him a printout from a far-right blog, but this one came out of nowhere. One minute we were gliding along, the next Donald is "you know those whatayacallits that have been helping us defeat ISIS since forever? Screw 'em." He apparently talked to "President Turkey" (he can never remember the name, so everyone is always "President China guy" or "President Turkey guy") and Erdogan told him God-only-knows and that was that. Next thing anyone knows he's issued bug-out orders and is going on TV to say that if the Kurds were really our allies they would have showed up at Normandy, and Turkey is invading Kurdish towns and everybody's shooting everyone.
Again, I want to repeat that we all were really close to speaking out against Donald on this one. Several of us! We had always drawn the line, between us, on what we would keep our mouths shut on and what would require us, just as a matter of decency, to take a stand, and during every one of those conversations "enabling ethic cleansing or genocide" was always the one we used as an example of where we'd have to step off, just so we could live with ourselves. That was our worst fear, and one of the things we tried the hardest to keep Trump away from.
But what we didn't talk about, during those conversations, is that every one of us has a mortgage. Sure, it's big talk to say that an ethnic cleansing campaign targeting our own allies would be the thing that every true patriot would have to speak out against, but try saying that when you remember that you've got another mortgage payment coming up. Being a big-mouth patriot doesn't pay the bills.
That said, we thought very hard about speaking out. We thought about it a LOT. We gave each other the "look," the one that meant "oh boy, this might be the thing that does me in" two or three or four times each before gritting our teeth and pretending it never happened.
As for what to do about it, boy, I dunno? Donald has got it in his head that we can take the Kurds that had to flee from Turkey, set them up in the oil fields where they could pump Syrian oil and sell it to us (for a discount, since we're allies), and everyone could make a quick buck. Maybe the Kurds could try it, just to see how it worked out? A lot of folks in the Republican Party made their money on oil, or at least get their cash from someone who did, so it must be a pretty nice way to make a living. It's also a pretty good way to get folks to treat you right—there's always a lot of debate over whether fighting against insane theocratic terrorists is good enough to give you "ally" status, but get yourself an oil field and everyone in this town with a business card will fawn all over you. Hell, you can dismember a journalist and they'll still suck up.
So keep that in the back of your mind, Kurds, once the whole ethnic-cleansing thing has died down. And again—our bad. Can't emphasize enough how close we were to almost speaking out on this one.
Donald Trump is an idiot. He is dangerous, immoral, narcissistic, obsessive, and frequently criminal. He can be goaded by adversaries into betraying our national security at the drop of a hat. He is so incurious that for the first two years of his term we were convinced that he was actually illiterate. He spends his days staring at nearby television sets, waiting for mentions of his name and becoming alternately pleased or irate with each one. He is without a doubt a danger to our nation, and with each passing day he further corrupts and erodes our institutions, our international alliances, and the rule of law itself.
Someone must step forward, for the sake of our very nation. Everyone who has worked or still works in this administration knows that Trump is at best a petty criminal and at worst an authoritarian bending each agency into something grotesque. It is obvious to all, and it is time we, or at least someone among us, speak out.
By someone, of course, I do not mean me. Trump is dangerous, to be sure, and his decisions continue to sabotage this nation and destabilize others. But I have a mortgage. I have a career to protect, one that pays very well and places me near the top ranks of power, and if I were to speak out publicly to testify to the nation on the sheer scope of Trump's incompetence and corruption it is possible that this nightmare could end sooner. I would lose all Republican social standing.
I did take the choice seriously. I made a list of the pros and cons of stepping forward.
PROS: — U.S. no longer governed by unstable madman — Less chance of nuclear war (hellscape/radiation mutants?) — Could save democracy itself
CONS: — Would have to look for a new job — Would be widely detested in Republican Party — Could no longer go on Tucker Carlson show — Mean tweets (possibly many)
Our nation is in great danger, but it should not be left to someone like me to be the voice that steps up to identify these threats. I have a mortgage. I have a career that I like very much. If I keep my mouth shut I can keep the gravy train rolling, and I think I am doing more than my share by writing anonymously about these dangers. Someone with no mortgage and no career ought to be doing the real heavy lifting here.
Nikki Haley is right out. She wants to be president and will hand-polish Donald's hairpiece from now until three days after his death if it will keep Fox executives calling. I'm not sure Sarah Sanders was even human—a half dozen of us had a long argument one evening about whether she could be an MIT-built robot programmed to lie.
What about Rex Tillerson? Where did he go? That man has more money than God, he could speak up and nobody could do a thing to him. Rex knew Trump was out of his mind within two hours of meeting him, and he wasn't shy about saying so. Jesus Christ, Rex, step up here. It's not like you care whether Sean Hannity still talks to you. Do you even HAVE a mortgage? I bet you don't.
Someone must put a stop to our dangerous national nightmare. I have written this book in the hopes that it will prod others to speak out, publicly, to tell America what they know, and named it A WARRNING to make clear that it is a warning. The extra R is because I Really mean it.
I need no thanks: Surely all great patriots would be willing to speak out to help protect their nation so long as their name was left out of it and many of the most juicy tidbits were scrubbed out to protect their identity and career. With that in mind, let me now tell you about how very screwed we are, as a country, and how we will be lucky to survive long enough for me to see my first royalty check.
By someone, of course, I do not mean me. Trump is dangerous, to be sure, and his decisions continue to sabotage this nation and destabilize others. But I have a mortgage. I have a career to protect, one that pays very well and places me near the top ranks of power, and if I were to speak out publicly to testify to the nation on the sheer scope of Trump's incompetence and corruption it is possible that this nightmare could end sooner. I would lose all Republican social standing.
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said it was best if President Trump did not get involved in Britain’s upcoming election when he visits London for a NATO summit next week, the HuffPost reports.
Said Johnson: “What we don’t do traditionally as loving allies and friends, what we don’t do traditionally, is get involved in each other’s election campaigns.”
IN OTHER WORDS, DON'T TRY TO PULL A "RUSSIA" ON US, DONALD!
Campaigners for US presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders have been lending their support to the Labour party, running phone-banking sessions from New York ahead of the general election.
The city’s branch of Labour International has been working with the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), who have been calling British campaigners with tips on how to encourage people to register to vote and cast a ballot for Labour at the December poll.
The DSA endorses and campaigns for Sanders, who is running to be the Democratic presidential candidate for a second time after losing out to Hillary Clinton in 2016.
A spokesperson for Momentum, the grassroots Labour campaign group, said: “This is part of a growing relationship between Bernie, DSA activists and Momentum and Labour members abroad that has included exchanges between the nurses’ unions of the US and the UK to campaign on public health in the US.
“Many Labour International and Momentum members have been volunteers on Sanders’ campaign and so the favour’s being returned.”
Canvassing sessions run by the US volunteers for Momentum campaigners in the UK on Saturdays are an attempt to support grassroots activism and turn out the vote for Labour.
Campaigners from Sanders’ team have previously run election training sessions for activists working on Corbyn’s 2017 election run to try to help direct the huge volume of volunteers the organisation attracts to the right constituencies. They have also shared digital campaigning methods.
The Labour International and DSA volunteers have also been running phone-banking sessions from Chicago, Toronto, Louisville and San Francisco.
The New York sessions are also being supported by overseas members of the Party of European Socialists, who have helped to source office space for canvassing sessions.
Snopes: As the evidence stands, no strong case exists for the claim that Trump read or admired Hitler’s Mein Kampf. A quote attributed to him [that supposedly appeared in TIME magazine} in which he supposedly lauded Mein Kampf and its author was clearly fabricated. It appears, on the other hand, that Trump did (and perhaps still does) own a collection of Hitler’s speeches that a friend presented to him as a gift. According to Vanity Fair, Ivana Trump told her lawyer that her husband kept the book near his bedside and occasionally read from it. Also according to Vanity Fair, however, Trump insisted he had never read it, nor would he. ________
Donald Trump appears to take aspects of his German background seriously. [His father was German.] John Walter works for the Trump Organization, and when he visits Donald in his office, Ivana told a friend, he clicks his heels and says, “Heil Hitler,” possibly as a family joke.
Last April, perhaps in a surge of Czech nationalism, Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler’s collected speeches, "My New Order," which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed. Kennedy now guards a copy of "My New Order" in a closet at his office, as if it were a grenade. Hitler’s speeches, from his earliest days up through the Phony War of 1939, reveal his extraordinary ability as a master propagandist.
“Did your cousin John give you the Hitler speeches?” I asked Trump.
Trump hesitated. “Who told you that?”
“I don’t remember,” I said.
“Actually, it was my friend Marty Davis from Paramount who gave me a copy of 'Mein Kampf,' and he’s a Jew.” (“I did give him a book about Hitler,” Marty Davis said. “But it was 'My New Order,' Hitler’s speeches, not 'Mein Kampf.' I thought he would find it interesting. I am his friend, but I’m not Jewish.”)
Later, Trump returned to this subject. “If I had these speeches, and I am not saying that I do, I would never read them.”
Is Ivana trying to convince her friends and lawyer that Trump is a crypto-Nazi? Trump is no reader or history buff. Perhaps his possession of Hitler’s speeches merely indicates an interest in Hitler’s genius at propaganda. The Führer often described his defeats at Stalingrad and in North Africa as great victories. Trump continues to endow his diminishing world with significance as well. “There’s nobody that has the cash flow that I have,” he told The Wall Street Journal long after he knew better. “I want to be king of cash.”
First of all you don't know whether Trump read them "admiringly" . That's an opinion based on your hate of the man. It could be that Trump is very well the a amateur historian you contemptuously dismiss him to be.
That being said there are a few things any salesman or politician can learn from Hitlers speeches as he was one of the premier politicians of his time whose path to power laid in his charisma and connection with common people.
Second, I would take anything said by Ivana Trump though Vanity Fair with a grain of salt. Both have reason to tar Trump's reputation.
He will have more difficulty doing that from now on, however, with our newly awakened, engaged, and protectively dedicated free press and media
Yeah, a reporter from Newsweek actually tweeted as wrote a story that Trump was playing golf and tweeting during the Thanksgiving holiday when in actual fact he was in Afghanistan with out troops. That's your "newly awakened, engaged, and proactively dedicated free press and media" for you.
"climate crisis is not just about the environment#
"It is a crisis of human rights, of justice, and of political will. Colonial, racist, and patriarchal systems of oppression have created and fueled it. We need to dismantle them all." Greta Thunberg
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Happy Thanksgiving to one and all!
Gobble gobble gobble!
The federal debt has increased by $1,303,466.578.471.45 since last Thanksgiving, according to data released by the U.S. Treasury.
That is the largest Thanksgiving-to-Thanksgiving increase in the debt in nine years. The last time the debt increased more from Thanksgiving to Thanksgiving was in 2010, when it increased by $1,785,995,360,978.10.
It also equals approximately $10,137.48 per household in the United States.
Gobble gobble gobble!
https://www.cnsnews.com/article/washington/terence-p-jeffrey/federal-debt-13-trillion-last-thanksgiving-10137-household
Happiness is a warm gun and trump spending millions and millions of our money so his old fat white ass can play golf poorly!!!!!! And the slurpers will swallow!!!!
ump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Nov. 27, 2019. Trump is spending Thanksgiving week at his nearby Mar-a-Lago estate. (Photo: Susan Walsh/ASSOCIATED PRESS)
With his Thanksgiving vacation, President Donald Trump’s golf hobby has now cost Americans an estimated $115 million in travel and security expenses ― the equivalent of 287 years of the presidential salary he frequently boasts about not taking.
Of that amount, many hundreds of thousands ― perhaps millions ― of dollars have gone into his own cash registers, as Secret Service agents, White House staff and other administration officials stay and eat at his hotels and golf courses.
The exact amount cannot be determined because the White House refuses to reveal how many Trump aides have been staying at his properties when he visits them and will not turn over receipts for the charges incurred.
Happy Thanksgiving!
No Record Can be Found of Trump’s "No Quid Pro Quo" Call With Sondland
Washington Post:
“Sondland’s recollection of a phone conversation that he said took place on Sept. 9 has emerged as a centerpiece of Trump’s defense as House Democrats argue in an impeachment inquiry that he abused his office to pressure Ukraine to investigate Democrats.
“However, no other witness testimony or documents have emerged that corroborate Sondland’s description of a call that day.
“Trump himself, in describing the conversation, has referred only to the ambassador’s account of the call, which — based on Sondland’s activities — would have occurred before dawn in Washington. And the White House has not located a record in its switchboard logs of a call between Trump and Sondland on Sept. 9, according to an administration official.”
Business Insider:
The White House has reportedly been unable to find any record of the call where Trump told Sondland there was 'no quid pro quo' with Ukraine
A Trump administration official has told The Washington Post that the White House has been unable to find any record of the September 9 call between President Donald Trump and EU ambassador Gordon Sondland.
Both men have said that during the call that Trump told Sondland he sought "no quid pro quo" deal, and wanted "nothing" in return for dealings with Ukraine.
The call has been pivotal to Trump's impeachment defense, with the president reading out sections of the call to reporters on the day Sondland delivered his testimony to the impeachment probe.
The White House has been unable to find any record of the September 9 phone call in which President Donald Trump allegedly told EU Ambassador Gordon Sondland that there was "no quid pro quo" with Ukraine and that he wanted "nothing" in his dealings with the country, according to a report from The Washington Post.
An administration official told The Post that White House staff had searched switchboards at the president's official residence on that date and found no record of the call, and no witnesses or documents have emerged to corroborate Trump and Sondland's account of the call.
In his defense against the impeachment probe, Trump has seized on the call as evidence that he sought no personal advantage in pressuring Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden, a leading Democratic contender for the 2020 presidential nomination.
Sondland has testified to the House impeachment probe that in the call Trump told him he sought no "quid pro quo" deal with Ukraine, or deal in which the delivery of $400 million in military aid was made conditional on Ukraine announcing a probe into Biden.
On the day Sondland gave his public testimony to the House impeachment probe, November 20, Trump in a briefing to reporters read out sections of the conversation from a hand-written note, based on Sondland's account of it.
"This is Ambassador Sondland speaking to me," Trump told reporters last week. "Here's my response that he just gave: 'I want nothing ... I want nothing. I want no quid pro quo.'"
The timing of Trump's claim that he sought no quid pro quo has come under renewed scrutiny this week, after it was revealed that the president was briefed about a whistleblower's complaint about his July 25 call with Zelensky in late August.
Those timings mean he was aware that his dealings with Ukraine were under scrutiny before he started issuing denials that he sought something from Ukraine.
Other impeachment witnesses have recalled Sondland telling them about a calls before the alleged September 9 call — on September 1 and September 7 – in which the president told him he wanted no "quid pro quo," but did want Ukrainian president to personally announce a Biden probe.
Sondland's attorney, Robert Luskin, told the Post: "He is aware of your story and will not comment beyond his descriptions of these matters in his deposition and public testimony."
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MAKE THANKSGIVING GREAT AGAIN!
REMOVE BOTH THESE TURKEYS!!!
We are thankful we have president Trump instead of president Hillary Clinton.
We are truly favored God chose him.
Three Women Recall Sexual Misconduct by Sondland
The Guardian:
“Three women say they faced sexual misconduct by Gordon Sondland before he was the U.S. ambassador to the European Union and at the center of the presidential impeachment inquiry. They say he retaliated against them professionally after they rejected his advances.
“In one case, a potential business partner recalls that Sondland took her to tour a room in a hotel he owns, only to then grab her face and try to kiss her. After she rejected him, Sondland backtracked on investing in her business."
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You can read the whole sordid story here:
https://www.propublica.org/article/multiple-women-recall-sexual-misconduct-and-retaliation-by-gordon-sondland
God may be surprised to learn that God chose Trump. God may be under the impression that Putin chose him.
Blogger James said...
God may be surprised to learn that God chose Trump.
Since God is all knowing he is never surprise by anything.
For a pastor James you are remarkably ignorant of God.
Commensa said
Since God is all knowing he is never surprise by anything.
First of all, the word would be surprisED.
(Why you so often get that wrong I will never understand.)
Second, I was only joking, but if you think God really did choose Trump to be President, in my humble opinion YOU are the one showing a profound ignorance of God.
Barr Never Asked Ukraine for Investigation
November 28, 2019 at 10:51 am EST
The Financial Times profiles Ruslan Ryaboshapka, the new general prosecutor in Ukraine.
“Asked about a potential probe focusing on the Bidens and their connection with Ukrainian energy company Burisma, Mr Ryaboshapka said Mr Trump’s attorney-general William Barr had made no contact to formally request a joint investigation. A broader audit into past and current cases, including those involving Burisma, were under way, he said.”
Playbook:
So after all of that, the Justice Department never asked for an actual investigation of Burisma and the Bidens?
Hmmmmm.
Second, I was only joking, but if you think God really did choose Trump to be President, in my humble opinion YOU are the one showing a profound ignorance of God.
So you don't believe events are shaped by God?
I prefer Roger or CH. At least they are honest atheist.
I do not believe God "shapes" every tragedy.
I do not believe God "willed" the Holocaust,the killing of ca. 6 million of Europe's Jews.
Or the cruelty of the Nazis.
Or the senseless assassination of Lincoln.
Or the accident of an uncle of mine who died trapped and burning alive in an overturned automobile.
Or the horrible sexual abuse of children and helpless women.
And the list goes on and on and on...
Or the rapes and murder at My Lai.
https://time.com/longform/my-lai-massacre-ron-haeberle-photographs/
He certainly did James because god gave men free will the chosen between good and evil and men often choose evil.
That is the lesson of the first chapter of Genesis.
Also that god knew what their choice was before they made it.
I'm glad you're not my pastor. You are intellectually and theologically shallow.
Then it is men who do wrong, not God.
You believe God "shaped" or wanted the election of Hitler?
I do not.
You believe God shaped and willed all the things I listed?
Also, there is accident.
My uncle who came home from service in WWII did not "choose" to die in that car accident soon after returning. He did not "choose" evil. He had done nothing to "deserve" such a death.
Shallow? I regard you as shallow beyond words.
The major part of the Book of Job was written to question the shallow theological position that all suffering is deserved punishment, as Job's three friends kept telling and accusing him, and as Job kept denying. And God in the end commended Job.
James all of the points you brought up are that of a layman who has lost his faith. As a pastor it's your job to restore that faith.
But you can't really do that if you have lost that faith.
Retire James, you are doing more harm than good.
You don't believe and can't console anybody else.
On Thanksgiving Day, we remember with reverence and gratitude the bountiful blessings afforded to us by our Creator, and we recommit to sharing in a spirit of thanksgiving and generosity with our friends, neighbors, and families.
Nearly four centuries ago, determined individuals with a hopeful vision of a more prosperous life and an abundance of opportunities made a pilgrimage to a distant land. These Pilgrims embarked on their journey across the Atlantic at great personal risk, facing unforeseen trials and tribulations, and unforetold hardships during their passage. After their arrival in the New World, a harsh and deadly winter took the lives of nearly half their population. Those who survived remained unwavering in their faith and foresight of a future rich with liberty and freedom, enduring every impediment as they established one of our Nation’s first settlements. Through God’s divine providence, a meaningful relationship was forged with the Wampanoag Tribe, and through their unwavering resolve and resilience, the Pilgrims enjoyed a bountiful harvest the following year. The celebration of this harvest lasted 3 days and saw Pilgrims and Wampanoag seated together at the table of friendship and unity. That first Thanksgiving provided an enduring symbol of gratitude that is uniquely sewn into the fabric of our American spirit.
More than 150 years later, it was in this same spirit of unity that President George Washington declared a National Day of Thanksgiving following the Revolutionary War and the ratification of our Constitution. Less than a century later, that hard-won unity came under duress as the United States was engaged in a civil war that threatened the very existence of our Republic. Following the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863, in an effort to unite the country and acknowledge “the gracious gifts of the Most High God,” President Abraham Lincoln asked the American people to come together and “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.” Today, this tradition continues with millions of Americans gathering each year to give their thanks for the same blessings of liberty for which so many brave patriots have laid down their lives to defend during the Revolutionary War and in the years since.
Since the first settlers to call our country home landed on American shores, we have always been defined by our resilience and propensity to show gratitude even in the face of great adversity, always remembering the blessings we have been given in spite of the hardships we endure. This Thanksgiving, we pause and acknowledge those who will have empty seats at their table. We ask God to watch over our service members, especially those whose selfless commitment to serving our country and defending our sacred liberty has called them to duty overseas during the holiday season. We also pray for our law enforcement officials and first responders as they carry out their duties to protect and serve our communities. As a Nation, we owe a debt of gratitude to both those who take an oath to safeguard us and our way of life as well as to their families, and we salute them for their immeasurable sacrifices.
As we gather today with those we hold dear, let us give thanks to Almighty God for the many blessings we enjoy. United together as one people, in gratitude for the freedoms and prosperity that thrive across our land, we acknowledge God as the source of all good gifts. We ask Him for protection and wisdom and for opportunities this Thanksgiving to share with others some measure of what we have so providentially received.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim Thursday, November 28, 2019, as a National Day of Thanksgiving. I encourage all Americans to gather, in homes and places of worship, to offer a prayer of thanks to God for our many blessings.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
twenty-seventh day of November, in the year of our Lord two thousand nineteen, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-fourth.
The dumb fuck of NY propagating the fake war on thanksgiving that was started on the moronic Fox Network and spread by trump and other idiots like you, rat!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim Thursday, November 28, 2019, as a National Day of Thanksgiving. I encourage all Americans to gather, in homes and places of worship, to offer a prayer of thanks to God for our many blessings.
You don't believe and can't console anybody else.
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I have consoled numerous people who are comforted to know that it was not necessarily God's "will" that a loved one dies in an accident or murder.
Like I said you do more harm than good.
Yes, Mrs. so and so, you must accept that it was God's will that your little daughter should die in that terrible accident/ or get raped by that pervert/ or die of that virulent disease.
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I guess that's what Commensa thinks a pastor should say.
I know it is not.
China Furious Over Hong Kong Bills
November 28, 2019 at 10:54 am EST
Associated Press: “China reacted furiously Thursday to President Donald Trump’s signing two bills aimed at supporting human rights in Hong Kong, summoning the U.S. ambassador to protest and warning the move would undermine cooperation with Washington.”
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For once, Trump did the right thing by putting compassion, decency, and idealism above his own political advantage.
TRUMP DID THE RIGHT THING REGARDING HONG KONG,
BUT THE WRONG THING REGARDING CONVICTED WAR CRIMINAL GALLAGHER, WHO WAS TURNED IN BY HIS OWN MEN BECAUSE OF HIS INHUMANE CRUELTY
In a scathing opinion piece for The Washington Post, Spencer hit out at Trump's "shocking and unprecedented" intervention, adding he believed the president's interest in the case stemmed from how the "defendant's lawyers and others had worked to keep it front and center in the media."
"It was also a reminder that the president has very little understanding of what it means to be in the military, to FIGHT ETHICALLY or to be governed by a uniform set of rules and practices," Spencer added.
Discussing the column, Hennessey said it is clear that Trump is not discharging his constitutional powers to serve the interest of the nation, but BECAUSE OF HIS POLITICAL INTERESTS and "what he sees on Fox and Friends…because he's captivated by a particular narrative."
Hennessey said: "Keep in mind that Gallagher's own men, his fellow sailors, actually turned him in. He's accused of actually threatening them for doing so. These are people who risk their careers because they saw somebody who they believed was doing something wrong, was VIOLATING THE LAW.
"People like [Defense Secretary Mark] Esper and Spencer need to be concerned about what message this sends to members of the military who want to do the RIGHT thing and see other people doing the WRONG thing. Is this going to send the message that you should just turn the other way and pretend as though you aren't seeing the kind of serious abuse that Gallagher is accused of?"
Guest host Jim Acosta pointed out that the "front and center in the media" line from Spencer's column was a clear reference to Fox News. "It seems to be yet another glaring example of this sort of symbiotic relationship between the president and his favorite network over at Fox, and how they can affect national security decisions, military justice decisions," he said.
CNN national security analyst Sam Vinograd agreed: "It's one thing for Fox analysts to offer their opinions, let's say on Gallagher's case. It is another thing for the president of the United States to make decisions based upon those analysts' opinions and NOT the opinions of his secretary of the Navy, members of his cabinet, or people that swear an oath to uphold the Constitution. So the fault here to me lies less with Fox News and more with the president."
If Trump had been President when My Lai happened....
Hennessey said: "Keep in mind that Gallagher's own men, his fellow sailors, actually turned him in. He's accused of actually threatening them for doing so. These are people who risk their careers because they saw somebody who they believed was doing something wrong, was VIOLATING THE LAW.
well pederast, it looks like the pussification of our military is just about complete.
"We are finding that there are a large number of trainees that come in that quite frankly just physically don't have the capacity to throw a hand grenade 20 to 25 to 30 meters. In 10 weeks, we are on a 48-hour period; you are just not going to be able to teach someone how to throw if they haven't thrown growing up."
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2018/02/09/low-discipline-new-soldiers-prompts-army-redesign-basic-training.html
READ THIS. IT IS SICKENING, JUST PLAIN SICKENING.
from NavyTimes:
https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2019/04/22/what-motivated-fellow-seals-to-dime-out-eddie-gallagher/
CONVICTED WAR CRIMINAL GALLAGHER
Gallagher wasn't convicted of war crimes. He was acquitted.
Shit for brains.
Correction:
TRUMP DID THE RIGHT THING REGARDING HONG KONG,
BUT THE WRONG THING REGARDING ACCUSED WAR CRIMINAL GALLAGHER, WHO WAS TURNED IN BY HIS OWN MEN BECAUSE OF HIS INHUMANE CRUELTY
from our local newspaper THE PANTAGRAPH
From the Pulpit
James Boswell
If asked, what would you answer?
Amy-Jill Levine is a Jewish scholar who teaches New Testament at Vanderbilt, an interdenominational theological seminary.
Levine is in agreement with many other historical Jesus scholars that Jesus of Nazareth should not be dismissed as a myth, but that he really did exist. Although Levine as a Jew does not believe that Jesus was the messianic Son of God, she like many other historical Jesus scholars is convinced that Jesus himself believed he was the promised Messiah. Moreover, because he was deeply influenced by the apocalyptic thinking of his time, he was expecting that God would soon bring all creation to a violent end, to be followed by an eternal “Kingdom of God” divinely established over all the renewed earth. And that, Jesus expected, would take place in his own generation.
Of course that did not happen. But the evidence that Jesus was expecting it pervades the New Testament in gospel statements attributed to both Jesus and John the Baptist, and in the writings of the Apostle Paul and all the other New Testament authors.
In disagreement with several present-day scholars, Levine thinks that it was not just the later church, but probably Jesus himself who originally believed that he would suffer a God-willed death that would result in righteousness for many, a concept he “quite likely” derived from “Isaiah’s Suffering Servant songs, particularly Isaiah 53” (The Historical Jesus in Context, p. 37).
During a 2012 interview with U.S.Catholic magazine ("A Jewish Take on Jesus"), Levine was asked, “If you were to meet Jesus, what question would you have for him?” She replied that she would want to ask him, “What did you hope to accomplish?” She also said she would like to know what he was thinking while he was dying on the cross: Was he in complete despair, as suggested by the only words attributed to him in the first two gospels, or did he still believe that he would be resurrected from a martyr’s death to bring salvation to his people?
“What was he thinking?” she wondered. “And what would he want us to do with what he was thinking?”
Seeing that nearly two thousand years have passed without the fulfillment of Jesus’ expectations, I would also want to ask him that last question.
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Boswell is a retired Disciples of Christ pastor whose opinions on current Jesus studies can be found on the Info page of his website at www.TheDeadSeaGospel.com.
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President Donald Trump made a surprise visit to Afghanistan to spend time with U.S. troops on Thanksgiving.
BUT THE WRONG THING REGARDING ACCUSED WAR CRIMINAL GALLAGHER
Again acquitted by a military court. Obviously James doesn't like the Constitution.
Trump Restarts Negotiations with Taliban
November 28, 2019 at 2:10 pm EST
“President Trump paid an unannounced Thanksgiving visit to American troops here on Thursday, and said that he has restarted peace negotiations with the Taliban less than three months after he scuttled talks with the group,” the New York Times reports.
Said Trump: “The Taliban wants to make a deal, and we’re meeting with them.”
He added: “We’re going to stay until such time as we have a deal, or we have total victory, and they want to make to make a deal very badly.”
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File that under: HEAVEN HELP US!
Will that go as poorly as his negotiations with N. Korea, or with the Israelis and Palestinians, or with Russia, or with China, or with the EU, or with Turkey??
Acquited by a military court but ACCUSED BY HIS OWN MEN OF CRUELTIES THAT WERE TOO GREAT FOR THEM TO REMAIN SILENT CONCERNING WHICH.
He added: “We’re going to stay until such time as we have a deal, or we have total victory, and they want to make to make a deal very badly.”
So he'll stay there through our next Presidential election?
I'm off with my lovely wife to a wonderful Thanksgiving celebration at the home of nearby neighbors. HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
James, give this Day of Thanks a rest from your attacks on God, Trump and this Greatest of all Nations ever in the history of man.
55 million Americans are Traveling this holiday having the excess wealth to do so.
Trump makes surprise Thanksgiving visit to Afghanistan
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/president-trump-makes-surprise-thanksgiving-visit-to-afghanistan-today/
Class Move by the Commander in Chief.
Trump was exactly correct to visit our troops in Afghanistan today!🙏🙏🙏🙏
How about the Buffalo Bills today?????
They looked great. Myballs is happy
Whatever you think of the charges against President Trump on Russia or Ukraine, his position of resolute noncooperation with Congress should trouble you deeply. If Congress cannot exercise its core oversight capacity, obtain documents and subpoena administration officials to testify, the essential system of checks and balances has broken down. The presidency will have become an elected dictatorship.
I have been thinking along the same thing.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/its-hard-to-be-an-optimist-about-america-right-now/2019/11/27/8020e526-115b-11ea-b0fc-62cc38411ebb_story.html
There it is The Democrats failed to make thier case in public hears because of others.
Being an Obimbo Radicalized Socialist Democrat means never owning up to failures.
Yet, Palsy and Schitt and Biden and Plunging Screaming Lizzy Warren all say he is guilty and they have proof.
Proof they have yet to show We the People.
No matter how hard the Socialist Democrats Pray and talk down the American Worker and put up road blocks on the USMC, WE KEEP GROWING.
GDP revision Q3 2.1%
consumer Confidence a strong 125
his position of resolute noncooperation with Congress should trouble you deeply.
hardly.
his position of resolute noncooperation is the perfect response to an impeachment inquiry constructed of resolute absurdity and dishonesty. there's nothing to take seriously of this inquiry, therefore trump's reaction to it is spot-on.
the essential system of checks and balances remains in fine fettle. what it does not contain is for some asshat or collection of asshats in the congress to wake up one morning and declare something as mundane as a telephone call with a foreign leader to be a high crime just because of a whopping case of election 2016 butthurt.
an honorable person takes trump head on at the ballot box in 2020.
a coward uses dishonesty and deception to remove him beforehand.
GDP revision Q3 2.1%
Still 50% of trumps promised 4% and equivalent to the lost years the goat fucker complains about....How funny is that!!!!!!!
Wrong Dennis, but that is your thing. Being wrong on everything .
A non-contributor.
Wrong that you still bitch and moan about the lost years....which trump is now duplicating?????? God you are an obnoxiously stupid goat fucker....>BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
Ex-GOP Lawmaker Says Republicans Are Disgusted
Former Rep. Charlie Dent (R-PA) told CNN that Republicans are in public “standing with the president for the moment,” despite the impeachment inquiry prompted by the Ukraine scandal.
He added: “But there’s no question, having spoken to many of them privately, they’re absolutely disgusted and exhausted by the president’s behavior. They resent being put in this position all the time.”
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Poor Ch has got to feel this way too, though he is not honest enough to admit it.
Two Things That Could Save or Sink Trump
Politico:
“President Trump needs two big achievements to keep markets and the economy as glittering assets in his challenging 2020 reelection bid: passage of a new NAFTA and a trade deal with China.
“But Democrats are stringing him along on the first — the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement — and he’s engaged in a seemingly endless rope-a-dope with China on the second with no guarantee of success. That’s left the economy as a major wild card for next year.”
Britain’s Dirty Election
Peter Geoghegan and Mary Fitzgerald:
“Pity British voters. Not because they face a choice between two historically unpopular candidates for prime minister — Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn — on Dec. 12. Nor that they are being forced to trudge to polling stations for the third general election in five years, this time in the depths of the miserable British winter.
Rather, “pity British voters because they are being subjected to a barrage of distortion, dissembling and disinformation without precedent in the country’s history. Long sentimentalized as the home of “fair play,” Britain is now host to the virus of lies, deception and digital skulduggery that afflicts many other countries across the world.”
YEP, WE SURE KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT THAT IN OUR OWN COUNTRY.
Said Trump: “The Taliban wants to make a deal, and we’re meeting with them.”
He added: “We’re going to stay until such time as we have a deal, or we have total victory, and they want to make to make a deal very badly.”
He's already headed back home. We can't wait to hear about the total victory he achieved.
Ty Jane for not spamming here yesterday after i asked you to stop
Hong Kong Protesters Flying US Flag High, 100's of them . They thank Yrump for his Public Support.
Better Patriots then Jane and Alky.
And the Blame America First Top Socials Demorats running to Challenge Trump.
Democrats continue to fail to support the minority Candidates running, why?
Ty Jane for not spamming here yesterday after i asked you to stop
Yeah, that had a lot to do with it. I was busy eating a marvelous Thanksgiving Feast with wonderful friends.
Excerp for Anonymous via Daily Kos
Wow. Okay, this one was our bad. I want to sincerely apologize to everyone in Syria we just screwed over, I want you to know what we were really close to speaking up on this one, when it happened.
I know the whole premise of that letter I wrote to the New York Times last year was that by standing by Donald despite him being obviously unfit for the job and a danger to everyone around him to boot, I and the rest of senior leadership were doing the world a favor by keeping him from doing even worse things that none of you ever heard about, but this one was a humdinger. We did not see it coming.
Usually when the big idiot gets an idea in his head it's because he sees it on Fox News or one of his jackass advisers has handed him a printout from a far-right blog, but this one came out of nowhere. One minute we were gliding along, the next Donald is "you know those whatayacallits that have been helping us defeat ISIS since forever? Screw 'em." He apparently talked to "President Turkey" (he can never remember the name, so everyone is always "President China guy" or "President Turkey guy") and Erdogan told him God-only-knows and that was that. Next thing anyone knows he's issued bug-out orders and is going on TV to say that if the Kurds were really our allies they would have showed up at Normandy, and Turkey is invading Kurdish towns and everybody's shooting everyone.
Again, I want to repeat that we all were really close to speaking out against Donald on this one. Several of us! We had always drawn the line, between us, on what we would keep our mouths shut on and what would require us, just as a matter of decency, to take a stand, and during every one of those conversations "enabling ethic cleansing or genocide" was always the one we used as an example of where we'd have to step off, just so we could live with ourselves. That was our worst fear, and one of the things we tried the hardest to keep Trump away from.
But what we didn't talk about, during those conversations, is that every one of us has a mortgage. Sure, it's big talk to say that an ethnic cleansing campaign targeting our own allies would be the thing that every true patriot would have to speak out against, but try saying that when you remember that you've got another mortgage payment coming up. Being a big-mouth patriot doesn't pay the bills.
That said, we thought very hard about speaking out. We thought about it a LOT. We gave each other the "look," the one that meant "oh boy, this might be the thing that does me in" two or three or four times each before gritting our teeth and pretending it never happened.
As for what to do about it, boy, I dunno? Donald has got it in his head that we can take the Kurds that had to flee from Turkey, set them up in the oil fields where they could pump Syrian oil and sell it to us (for a discount, since we're allies), and everyone could make a quick buck. Maybe the Kurds could try it, just to see how it worked out? A lot of folks in the Republican Party made their money on oil, or at least get their cash from someone who did, so it must be a pretty nice way to make a living. It's also a pretty good way to get folks to treat you right—there's always a lot of debate over whether fighting against insane theocratic terrorists is good enough to give you "ally" status, but get yourself an oil field and everyone in this town with a business card will fawn all over you. Hell, you can dismember a journalist and they'll still suck up.
So keep that in the back of your mind, Kurds, once the whole ethnic-cleansing thing has died down. And again—our bad. Can't emphasize enough how close we were to almost speaking out on this one.
LOL
History will not be kind to the Republicans for abdicating their duty to take a principled stand against this malignancy in the White House.
Donald Trump is an idiot. He is dangerous, immoral, narcissistic, obsessive, and frequently criminal. He can be goaded by adversaries into betraying our national security at the drop of a hat. He is so incurious that for the first two years of his term we were convinced that he was actually illiterate. He spends his days staring at nearby television sets, waiting for mentions of his name and becoming alternately pleased or irate with each one. He is without a doubt a danger to our nation, and with each passing day he further corrupts and erodes our institutions, our international alliances, and the rule of law itself.
Someone must step forward, for the sake of our very nation. Everyone who has worked or still works in this administration knows that Trump is at best a petty criminal and at worst an authoritarian bending each agency into something grotesque. It is obvious to all, and it is time we, or at least someone among us, speak out.
By someone, of course, I do not mean me. Trump is dangerous, to be sure, and his decisions continue to sabotage this nation and destabilize others. But I have a mortgage. I have a career to protect, one that pays very well and places me near the top ranks of power, and if I were to speak out publicly to testify to the nation on the sheer scope of Trump's incompetence and corruption it is possible that this nightmare could end sooner. I would lose all Republican social standing.
I did take the choice seriously. I made a list of the pros and cons of stepping forward.
PROS:
— U.S. no longer governed by unstable madman
— Less chance of nuclear war (hellscape/radiation mutants?)
— Could save democracy itself
CONS:
— Would have to look for a new job
— Would be widely detested in Republican Party
— Could no longer go on Tucker Carlson show
— Mean tweets (possibly many)
Our nation is in great danger, but it should not be left to someone like me to be the voice that steps up to identify these threats. I have a mortgage. I have a career that I like very much. If I keep my mouth shut I can keep the gravy train rolling, and I think I am doing more than my share by writing anonymously about these dangers. Someone with no mortgage and no career ought to be doing the real heavy lifting here.
Nikki Haley is right out. She wants to be president and will hand-polish Donald's hairpiece from now until three days after his death if it will keep Fox executives calling. I'm not sure Sarah Sanders was even human—a half dozen of us had a long argument one evening about whether she could be an MIT-built robot programmed to lie.
What about Rex Tillerson? Where did he go? That man has more money than God, he could speak up and nobody could do a thing to him. Rex knew Trump was out of his mind within two hours of meeting him, and he wasn't shy about saying so. Jesus Christ, Rex, step up here. It's not like you care whether Sean Hannity still talks to you. Do you even HAVE a mortgage? I bet you don't.
Someone must put a stop to our dangerous national nightmare. I have written this book in the hopes that it will prod others to speak out, publicly, to tell America what they know, and named it A WARRNING to make clear that it is a warning. The extra R is because I Really mean it.
I need no thanks: Surely all great patriots would be willing to speak out to help protect their nation so long as their name was left out of it and many of the most juicy tidbits were scrubbed out to protect their identity and career. With that in mind, let me now tell you about how very screwed we are, as a country, and how we will be lucky to survive long enough for me to see my first royalty check.
Yawn.
Did your kids come see you at The Home?
This can only be one or two people who have been this close to the President.
Vice President Pence?????
By someone, of course, I do not mean me. Trump is dangerous, to be sure, and his decisions continue to sabotage this nation and destabilize others. But I have a mortgage. I have a career to protect, one that pays very well and places me near the top ranks of power, and if I were to speak out publicly to testify to the nation on the sheer scope of Trump's incompetence and corruption it is possible that this nightmare could end sooner. I would lose all Republican social standing.
short version: "I'm a coward."
Correct. NUMEROUS Republicans are being cowards.
Thanks for the clear insight, Ratty.
We were disgusted by Adolf Hitler, but didn't speak out soon enough.
--Many Germans
The Three Socialist Stooges of CHT get yet another one wrong.
"Markets Show U.S. Gaining Upper Hand Over China in Trade WarBy
Elena Popina
November 28, 2019, 3:00 PM ESTUpdated on November 29, 2019, 2:05 AM EST
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i'm only seeing one coward, pederast.
i'm thinking that the assclown in the alky's post might just be satire.
he really, really, really wants to save the nation from donald trump, but there's one insurmountable obstacle standing in his way:
"Republican social standing."
yep. probably satire.
far funnier than anything borowitz has written, btw.
Rapist Racist Ratty, I too thought at first it was satire. Either way, SPOT ON!
Boris Johnson Tells Trump Not to Interfere
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said it was best if President Trump did not get involved in Britain’s upcoming election when he visits London for a NATO summit next week, the HuffPost reports.
Said Johnson: “What we don’t do traditionally as loving allies and friends, what we don’t do traditionally, is get involved in each other’s election campaigns.”
IN OTHER WORDS, DON'T TRY TO PULL A "RUSSIA" ON US, DONALD!
Jane sees Trump as Hilter.
How stupid.
Jane sees Trump as Hilter.
no one i know ever accused a liberal of being a deep thinker.
No, I just see cowardice among Republicans regarding Trump's criminality as similar to German cowardice toward Hitler's moves toward despotism.
See again my 8:31 above.
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Trump has admitted he loved to read Mein Kampf. Kept it on a table beside his bed.
Blogger James said...
Boris Johnson Tells Trump Not to Interfere
meanwhile...
Campaigners for US presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders have been lending their support to the Labour party, running phone-banking sessions from New York ahead of the general election.
The city’s branch of Labour International has been working with the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), who have been calling British campaigners with tips on how to encourage people to register to vote and cast a ballot for Labour at the December poll.
The DSA endorses and campaigns for Sanders, who is running to be the Democratic presidential candidate for a second time after losing out to Hillary Clinton in 2016.
A spokesperson for Momentum, the grassroots Labour campaign group, said: “This is part of a growing relationship between Bernie, DSA activists and Momentum and Labour members abroad that has included exchanges between the nurses’ unions of the US and the UK to campaign on public health in the US.
“Many Labour International and Momentum members have been volunteers on Sanders’ campaign and so the favour’s being returned.”
Canvassing sessions run by the US volunteers for Momentum campaigners in the UK on Saturdays are an attempt to support grassroots activism and turn out the vote for Labour.
Campaigners from Sanders’ team have previously run election training sessions for activists working on Corbyn’s 2017 election run to try to help direct the huge volume of volunteers the organisation attracts to the right constituencies. They have also shared digital campaigning methods.
The Labour International and DSA volunteers have also been running phone-banking sessions from Chicago, Toronto, Louisville and San Francisco.
The New York sessions are also being supported by overseas members of the Party of European Socialists, who have helped to source office space for canvassing sessions.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/nov/26/labour-gets-support-from-bernie-sanders-campaigners-in-us
the 2nd rule of liberalism:
whatever the left accuses the right of doing, the left themselves have done, are doing or will do.
The Nixon White House used to love to play the old Riefenstahl Hitler propaganda films in the WH theater.
James said...
Trump has admitted he loved to read Mein Kampf. Kept it on a table beside his bed
Why do you lie?
In the interest of truth:
Snopes:
As the evidence stands, no strong case exists for the claim that Trump read or admired Hitler’s Mein Kampf. A quote attributed to him [that supposedly appeared in TIME magazine} in which he supposedly lauded Mein Kampf and its author was clearly fabricated. It appears, on the other hand, that Trump did (and perhaps still does) own a collection of Hitler’s speeches that a friend presented to him as a gift. According to Vanity Fair, Ivana Trump told her lawyer that her husband kept the book near his bedside and occasionally read from it. Also according to Vanity Fair, however, Trump insisted he had never read it, nor would he.
________
Somebody's lying. Ivana or Donald?
excerpted from the VANITY FAIR article:
Donald Trump appears to take aspects of his German background seriously. [His father was German.] John Walter works for the Trump Organization, and when he visits Donald in his office, Ivana told a friend, he clicks his heels and says, “Heil Hitler,” possibly as a family joke.
Last April, perhaps in a surge of Czech nationalism, Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler’s collected speeches, "My New Order," which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed. Kennedy now guards a copy of "My New Order" in a closet at his office, as if it were a grenade. Hitler’s speeches, from his earliest days up through the Phony War of 1939, reveal his extraordinary ability as a master propagandist.
“Did your cousin John give you the Hitler speeches?” I asked Trump.
Trump hesitated. “Who told you that?”
“I don’t remember,” I said.
“Actually, it was my friend Marty Davis from Paramount who gave me a copy of 'Mein Kampf,' and he’s a Jew.” (“I did give him a book about Hitler,” Marty Davis said. “But it was 'My New Order,' Hitler’s speeches, not 'Mein Kampf.' I thought he would find it interesting. I am his friend, but I’m not Jewish.”)
Later, Trump returned to this subject. “If I had these speeches, and I am not saying that I do, I would never read them.”
Is Ivana trying to convince her friends and lawyer that Trump is a crypto-Nazi? Trump is no reader or history buff. Perhaps his possession of Hitler’s speeches merely indicates an interest in Hitler’s genius at propaganda. The Führer often described his defeats at Stalingrad and in North Africa as great victories. Trump continues to endow his diminishing world with significance as well. “There’s nobody that has the cash flow that I have,” he told The Wall Street Journal long after he knew better. “I want to be king of cash.”
end of citation
Trump a secret Nazi agency is own daughter is Jewish. Another ignorant post from James.
He would have been reading those speeches before his daughter became Jewish by marriage/conversion, nicht wahr?
Blogger James said...
In the interest of truth:
Snopes:
no one with an interest in the truth posts anything from snopes, pederast.
no one.
I've read Mein Kampf. It doesn't make me a Nazi.
It did give me some insight to the anti-Semitic madness of Europe of the 1920's.
Idiot!
Snopes often sets the record straight, rapist racist Rodent.
I've read Mein Kampf. It doesn't make me a Nazi.
Did you keep speeches of Hitler beside your bed and read and re-read them admiringly?
First of all you don't know whether Trump read them "admiringly" . That's an opinion based on your hate of the man. It could be that Trump is very well the a amateur historian you contemptuously dismiss him to be.
That being said there are a few things any salesman or politician can learn from Hitlers speeches as he was one of the premier politicians of his time whose path to power laid in his charisma and connection with common people.
Second, I would take anything said by Ivana Trump though Vanity Fair with a grain of salt. Both have reason to tar Trump's reputation.
I guess Trump kept them near his bed to read because he hated them.
And yes, he certainly learned very well one basic Nazi meme: Repeat a lie often enough and it will be believed by some, perhaps by many.
He will have more difficulty doing that from now on, however, with our newly awakened, engaged, and protectively dedicated free press and media.
And yes, he certainly learned very well one basic Nazi meme: Repeat a lie often enough and it will be believed by some, perhaps by many.
It was actually Lenin who said it. So many of "Hitler's quotes" are actually attributed to Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.
He will have more difficulty doing that from now on, however, with our newly awakened, engaged, and protectively dedicated free press and media
Yeah, a reporter from Newsweek actually tweeted as wrote a story that Trump was playing golf and tweeting during the Thanksgiving holiday when in actual fact he was in Afghanistan with out troops. That's your "newly awakened, engaged, and proactively dedicated free press and media" for you.
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