tRump has acted against every American ideal and is a clear and present danger to our Republic
Nov 6, 2017 22:23:10 #
Not to see this is true demands putting on a blindfold, covering your ears while loudly saying "Blah..blah...blah..blah..." so you can't hear. It demands abandoning critical thinking and logic. It demands h**e be greater than Reason. It demands fear as your guiding precept. It demands a blatant disregard for the fundamentals of Liberty and our Constitution. It means abandoning the principles that made our nation a "city upon a hill," exceptional, "a light of freedom to the world," for the ugliness of prejudice and self-interest. It demands a tolerance for smallness and lies that make our standards a mockery to the world. It demands supporting an unhinged, narcissistic, and petty man that has disgraced and embarrassed what we stand for as a democracy.
I can prove all that in explicit and verifiable evidence but a tRump supporter does not care. Deaf, dumb, and blind as long as tRump continues his crusade against Muslims and other minorities and anything Obama. Most of those supporters cannot follow anything passed a bumbersticker quote. To explain in more than ten words is a lost cause. Plus they have a default shut down switch for anything that opposes their incestuous ideas that no outsider is welcomed. Keep it in the family of fanatical believers.
"Drain the Swamp" was one of three major promises by tRump. Has he?
An address to the Deaf and Blind (and but a small sampling of egregious offenses that will be met by the usual empty ad hominem and dismissal of data, if they actually read and can pay attention that long):
1. Trump promised that he was putting his sons in charge of his business empire, telling Americans, “I hope at the end of eight years I’ll come back and say, ‘Oh you did a good job.’” But Forbes talked with Eric Trump, who revealed he’d be giving his father at least quarterly updates. And ProPublica discovered fine print in the legal arrangements that allows Trump to draw money from his 400 businesses “any time, without disclosing it,” a far cry from a prior statement by Trump’s lawyers that he was “completely isolating himself from his business interests.”
2. At the same time, “the administration has not been shy about hiring individuals who were once registered as lobbyists with the federal government. Data provided to The Washington Post by the liberal PAC American Bridge details the extent to which former lobbyists have made their way into the administration. Twenty work for the executive office of the president itself, including four ‘super-lobbyists’—ones who represented at least 10 different companies or organizations before coming to work for the government. What’s more, of the 74 lobbyists identified … 49 now work for agencies they used to lobby.”
3. “A major construction company owned by the Chinese government was hired to work on the latest Trump golf club development in Dubai,” the Sacramento Bee reports, “despite a pledge from Donald Trump that his family business would not engage in any t***sactions with foreign government entities while he serves as president.”
4. Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price is flying on private jets at taxpayer expense. He spent $60,000 in a single week. His predecessors flew commercial.
5. The U.S. Coast Guard paid Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s exclusive Palm Beach resort, more than $1,000 for a two-night stay in a luxury room. “It is not clear whether the invoice stemmed from a one-time occurrence or represented one of many Mar-a-Lago rooms that have been booked at government expense for p**********l aides or other officials since Trump took office,” The Washington Post reported. “Other agencies that likely have had regular presence at the club, such as the Secret Service, have declined to provide the Post information.”
6. Trump is using money donated to the Republican National Committee to pay his personal lawyers.
7. “As Trump and Chinese president Xi Jinping dined on Dover sole and New York strip steak earlier this month,” The Guardian reports, “thousands of miles away in China a government office quietly approved trademarks that could benefit the U.S. president’s family. On the day the president’s daughter Ivanka Trump met the Chinese leader, China granted preliminary approval for three new trademarks for her namesake brand, covering jewelry, bags, and spa service.”
8. The Washington Post found “the State Department spent more than $15,000 to book 19 rooms at the new Trump hotel in Vancouver when members of President Trump’s family headlined the grand opening of the tower in late February. The hotel bookings—which were released under a Freedom of Information Act request—reflect the first evidence of State Department expenditures at a Trump-branded property since President Trump took office in January.”
9. People with business before the federal government are paying for rooms in Trump’s D.C. hotel. Vanity Fair reports examples including “the prime minister of Malaysia, who is the focus of a Justice Department corruption probe; the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry that wants more offshore drilling; an association of candymakers seeking federal help in an enduring dispute with the U.S. sugar industry; and a trade group for vape-shop owners and e-cigarette makers.”
10. Ivanka Trump, the president’s daughter and a White House adviser, retains a stake in that hotel and receives an income stream from it.
11. As Politico reported, “In May, Jared Kushner’s sister Nicole Meyer pitched Chinese investors in Beijing on a Kushner development project in Jersey City, telling them that if they put at least $500,000 into the project they would be rewarded with EB-5 investor visas to immigrate to the United States. Kushner, whose role in the White House includes advising on China policy, stopped running his family’s company in January; but Meyer mentioned her brother by name at the Beijing event, reminding guests he was now serving in the White House and adding that the project ‘means a lot to me and my entire family.’”
12. Despite a pledge to donate all profits from foreign entities to the U.S. Treasury to avoid conflicts of interest, Trump’s businesses now “say it would be ‘impractical,’ to require customers representing foreign nations to identify themselves,” Reuters reports, adding that “The Kuwaiti and Azerbaijani governments have already hosted events at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C.”
13. The BBC reports that “Philippines’ newest trade envoy to the United States is the same man who is building Trump Tower Manila. Like many of Trump’s branding projects, Mr Trump does not own the building himself, but licenses his name to the building in return for regular payments. Trump family members have previously promoted the project. The trade envoy/business partner reportedly flew to U.S. to hold a private meeting with Mr. Trump after the e******n.”
14. According to ABC News, “Secretary Steven Mnuchin requested use of a government jet to take him and his wife on their honeymoon in Scotland, France, and Italy earlier this summer, sparking an inquiry by the Treasury Department's Office of Inspector General … Officials familiar with the matter said the highly unusual ask for a U.S. Air Force jet, which according to an Air Force spokesman could cost roughly $25,000 per hour to operate, was put in writing by the secretary’s office but was deemed unnecessary after further consideration.”
15. Ousted former National Security Adviser “Michael Flynn informed the Trump administration that he was under investigation for secretly lobbying on behalf of Turkish interests—and the president decided to appoint him to one of the most powerful national security posts in the government, anyway,” New York Magazine recounted. “Flynn then used his short time in office to veto a plan for retaking the Islamic State’s de facto capital, despite the plan’s strong support from the Pentagon and Obama administration. The operation would have involved partnership with Syrian Kurdish forces—a prospect vehemently opposed by Turkey’s government.”
16. Trump still hasn’t released his tax returns.
That list is highly incomplete. But already it is too much for the brain to take in all at once. Every item is a scandal in its own right. And an exhaustive list is all but impossible. To understand why, scroll through the Sunlight Foundation spreadsheet that aggregates Trump’s conflicts of interest. Probing all of them would take months.
Former President Jimmy Carter sold a peanut farm to avoid the appearance of one much less serious conflict. Trump chooses to put his business interests before the country’s interests. Despite repeating “drain the swamp” often, it was always just an opportunistic slogan for him.
“I told people the other day: ‘Drain the swamp,’ I don’t really like that expression,” he admitted to a Las Vegas campaign crowd last October. “I said, I don’t love that expression, so hokey … I h**e to use this … it doesn’t work, right. And I said it two weeks ago to a big crowd, and the place went crazy. Then I said it a second time, and the place went even crazier. And then the third time, like you, they started saying it before I said it. All of the sudden, I decided, I love that expression; it’s a great expression.”
Now the emptiness of Trump’s words is borne out by his actions. The evidence is right there on public record, though Trump supporters who rely on Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, or Tucker Carlson for their news haven’t yet gotten the t***h about the new swamp. But those who’ve read this far have gotten it. Why aren’t you furious yet?
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/09/meet-the-new-swamp/540540/
I can prove all that in explicit and verifiable evidence but a tRump supporter does not care. Deaf, dumb, and blind as long as tRump continues his crusade against Muslims and other minorities and anything Obama. Most of those supporters cannot follow anything passed a bumbersticker quote. To explain in more than ten words is a lost cause. Plus they have a default shut down switch for anything that opposes their incestuous ideas that no outsider is welcomed. Keep it in the family of fanatical believers.
"Drain the Swamp" was one of three major promises by tRump. Has he?
An address to the Deaf and Blind (and but a small sampling of egregious offenses that will be met by the usual empty ad hominem and dismissal of data, if they actually read and can pay attention that long):
1. Trump promised that he was putting his sons in charge of his business empire, telling Americans, “I hope at the end of eight years I’ll come back and say, ‘Oh you did a good job.’” But Forbes talked with Eric Trump, who revealed he’d be giving his father at least quarterly updates. And ProPublica discovered fine print in the legal arrangements that allows Trump to draw money from his 400 businesses “any time, without disclosing it,” a far cry from a prior statement by Trump’s lawyers that he was “completely isolating himself from his business interests.”
2. At the same time, “the administration has not been shy about hiring individuals who were once registered as lobbyists with the federal government. Data provided to The Washington Post by the liberal PAC American Bridge details the extent to which former lobbyists have made their way into the administration. Twenty work for the executive office of the president itself, including four ‘super-lobbyists’—ones who represented at least 10 different companies or organizations before coming to work for the government. What’s more, of the 74 lobbyists identified … 49 now work for agencies they used to lobby.”
3. “A major construction company owned by the Chinese government was hired to work on the latest Trump golf club development in Dubai,” the Sacramento Bee reports, “despite a pledge from Donald Trump that his family business would not engage in any t***sactions with foreign government entities while he serves as president.”
4. Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price is flying on private jets at taxpayer expense. He spent $60,000 in a single week. His predecessors flew commercial.
5. The U.S. Coast Guard paid Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s exclusive Palm Beach resort, more than $1,000 for a two-night stay in a luxury room. “It is not clear whether the invoice stemmed from a one-time occurrence or represented one of many Mar-a-Lago rooms that have been booked at government expense for p**********l aides or other officials since Trump took office,” The Washington Post reported. “Other agencies that likely have had regular presence at the club, such as the Secret Service, have declined to provide the Post information.”
6. Trump is using money donated to the Republican National Committee to pay his personal lawyers.
7. “As Trump and Chinese president Xi Jinping dined on Dover sole and New York strip steak earlier this month,” The Guardian reports, “thousands of miles away in China a government office quietly approved trademarks that could benefit the U.S. president’s family. On the day the president’s daughter Ivanka Trump met the Chinese leader, China granted preliminary approval for three new trademarks for her namesake brand, covering jewelry, bags, and spa service.”
8. The Washington Post found “the State Department spent more than $15,000 to book 19 rooms at the new Trump hotel in Vancouver when members of President Trump’s family headlined the grand opening of the tower in late February. The hotel bookings—which were released under a Freedom of Information Act request—reflect the first evidence of State Department expenditures at a Trump-branded property since President Trump took office in January.”
9. People with business before the federal government are paying for rooms in Trump’s D.C. hotel. Vanity Fair reports examples including “the prime minister of Malaysia, who is the focus of a Justice Department corruption probe; the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry that wants more offshore drilling; an association of candymakers seeking federal help in an enduring dispute with the U.S. sugar industry; and a trade group for vape-shop owners and e-cigarette makers.”
10. Ivanka Trump, the president’s daughter and a White House adviser, retains a stake in that hotel and receives an income stream from it.
11. As Politico reported, “In May, Jared Kushner’s sister Nicole Meyer pitched Chinese investors in Beijing on a Kushner development project in Jersey City, telling them that if they put at least $500,000 into the project they would be rewarded with EB-5 investor visas to immigrate to the United States. Kushner, whose role in the White House includes advising on China policy, stopped running his family’s company in January; but Meyer mentioned her brother by name at the Beijing event, reminding guests he was now serving in the White House and adding that the project ‘means a lot to me and my entire family.’”
12. Despite a pledge to donate all profits from foreign entities to the U.S. Treasury to avoid conflicts of interest, Trump’s businesses now “say it would be ‘impractical,’ to require customers representing foreign nations to identify themselves,” Reuters reports, adding that “The Kuwaiti and Azerbaijani governments have already hosted events at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C.”
13. The BBC reports that “Philippines’ newest trade envoy to the United States is the same man who is building Trump Tower Manila. Like many of Trump’s branding projects, Mr Trump does not own the building himself, but licenses his name to the building in return for regular payments. Trump family members have previously promoted the project. The trade envoy/business partner reportedly flew to U.S. to hold a private meeting with Mr. Trump after the e******n.”
14. According to ABC News, “Secretary Steven Mnuchin requested use of a government jet to take him and his wife on their honeymoon in Scotland, France, and Italy earlier this summer, sparking an inquiry by the Treasury Department's Office of Inspector General … Officials familiar with the matter said the highly unusual ask for a U.S. Air Force jet, which according to an Air Force spokesman could cost roughly $25,000 per hour to operate, was put in writing by the secretary’s office but was deemed unnecessary after further consideration.”
15. Ousted former National Security Adviser “Michael Flynn informed the Trump administration that he was under investigation for secretly lobbying on behalf of Turkish interests—and the president decided to appoint him to one of the most powerful national security posts in the government, anyway,” New York Magazine recounted. “Flynn then used his short time in office to veto a plan for retaking the Islamic State’s de facto capital, despite the plan’s strong support from the Pentagon and Obama administration. The operation would have involved partnership with Syrian Kurdish forces—a prospect vehemently opposed by Turkey’s government.”
16. Trump still hasn’t released his tax returns.
That list is highly incomplete. But already it is too much for the brain to take in all at once. Every item is a scandal in its own right. And an exhaustive list is all but impossible. To understand why, scroll through the Sunlight Foundation spreadsheet that aggregates Trump’s conflicts of interest. Probing all of them would take months.
Former President Jimmy Carter sold a peanut farm to avoid the appearance of one much less serious conflict. Trump chooses to put his business interests before the country’s interests. Despite repeating “drain the swamp” often, it was always just an opportunistic slogan for him.
“I told people the other day: ‘Drain the swamp,’ I don’t really like that expression,” he admitted to a Las Vegas campaign crowd last October. “I said, I don’t love that expression, so hokey … I h**e to use this … it doesn’t work, right. And I said it two weeks ago to a big crowd, and the place went crazy. Then I said it a second time, and the place went even crazier. And then the third time, like you, they started saying it before I said it. All of the sudden, I decided, I love that expression; it’s a great expression.”
Now the emptiness of Trump’s words is borne out by his actions. The evidence is right there on public record, though Trump supporters who rely on Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, or Tucker Carlson for their news haven’t yet gotten the t***h about the new swamp. But those who’ve read this far have gotten it. Why aren’t you furious yet?
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/09/meet-the-new-swamp/540540/
Nov 6, 2017 23:05:52 #
rumitoid wrote:
Not to see this is true demands putting on a blind... (show quote)
https://youtu.be/K8E_zMLCRNg
Nov 7, 2017 00:34:01 #
Wolf counselor wrote:
https://youtu.be/K8E_zMLCRNg
Brilliant retort to unassailable facts, and typical. Nothing of substance. When facts are overwhelming against your views, run away. Dodge. Deflect. Lie.
Nov 7, 2017 00:45:45 #
rumitoid wrote:
Brilliant retort to unassailable facts, and typical. Nothing of substance. When facts are overwhelming against your views, run away. Dodge. Deflect. Lie.
Not me ,I fell asleep reading all that nonsense but I do that with all your worthless BS.
Nov 7, 2017 01:17:33 #
Hemiman wrote:
Not me ,I fell asleep reading all that nonsense but I do that with all your worthless BS.
Okay, ty for sharing. As I stated, you guys lose your attention span over anything longer than a bumper-sticker so understandable. Sleep tight.
Nov 7, 2017 01:53:48 #
rumitoid wrote:
Okay, ty for sharing. As I stated, you guys lose your attention span over anything longer than a bumper-sticker so understandable. Sleep tight.
Always do after one of you'r fables.
Nov 7, 2017 07:22:15 #
Nov 7, 2017 07:27:08 #
rumitoid wrote:
Brilliant retort to unassailable facts, and typical. Nothing of substance. When facts are overwhelming against your views, run away. Dodge. Deflect. Lie.
Unassailable facts huh?
We live in a Constitutional Rupublic, not Democracy.
There! I just assailed one of the "facts" in your opinion piece.😆
Nov 7, 2017 10:44:37 #
TexaCan
Loc: Homeward Bound!
rumitoid wrote:
Brilliant retort to unassailable facts, and typical. Nothing of substance. When facts are overwhelming against your views, run away. Dodge. Deflect. Lie.
Or we could do as you do and create yet another 'character'!!!!!!! Love this new one! Phony as a two dollar bill, but the stories are entertaining!!
Nov 8, 2017 23:08:55 #
Hemiman wrote:
Not me ,I fell asleep reading all that nonsense but I do that with all your worthless BS.
Okay, best to keep under informed to support tRump.
Nov 8, 2017 23:13:34 #
archie bunker wrote:
Unassailable facts huh?
We live in a Constitutional Rupublic, not Democracy.
There! I just assailed one of the "facts" in your opinion piece.😆
We live in a Constitutional Rupublic, not Democracy.
There! I just assailed one of the "facts" in your opinion piece.😆
That used to be true. Over the past thirty years we have steadily moved towards what the "Founding Fathers" most feared: a democracy. You cheered for all those moves as did most Americans. It seemed to make each individual freer, while corrupting a carefully built and delicate Republic. I usually say Republic when addressing our country: it is still true but fast receding.
Nov 8, 2017 23:15:40 #
Hemiman wrote:
Not me ,I fell asleep reading all that nonsense but I do that with all your worthless BS.
Then how do you know it is BS if you are asleep? Having an alert and clear mind is more useful.
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