July 30, 2020

@waltshaub- Trump's tweet has inspired me to request my mail-in ballot. I will be casting it on the

@waltshaub
Trump's tweet has inspired me to request my mail-in ballot. I will be casting it on the first day it's allowed. I encourage you to do the same. Take action today to request the ballot.

Mail early--Trump is sabotaging the #USPO

July 30, 2020

The US Chamber of Commerce Says Trump Is Bad for Business The administration's in hot water with cor

I really am fearful for the ACA and its horrible consequences.



https://twitter.com/thenation/status/1288786918969352192?s=20




https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-big-pharma-executive-orders/
Donald Trump
Big Pharma
Signal:Noise

The US Chamber of Commerce Says Trump Is Bad for Business
The administration’s in hot water with corporate America for draconian work visa policies.


By Sasha Abramsky Twitter July 28, 2020


The Signal this week is that pigs just might be able to fly.


In a little-noticed move, the US Chamber of Commerce, one of the Republican Party’s most reliable allies, has announced that it is preparing to sue the Trump administration over its anti-immigration executive orders and regulatory changes. This marks an extraordinary moment. The lobbying group has long regarded the GOP as the party of low taxes, deregulation, and anti-unionism, but also of free trade, internationalism, and a relatively open immigration system. The Chamber’s nearly unstinting support has been a huge boon to Republicans in recent decades.

Now US business interests are beside themselves with anger at the Trump administration’s recent efforts to shred the H-1B visa program, ongoing attempts to end Deferred Action for Child Arrivals (DACA), and the ham-handed (albeit short-lived) decision to deny visas to international students whose colleges had moved to all-online classes during the pandemic. Chamber CEO Thomas Donohue even penned a furious op-ed for The New York Times, arguing that these actions “clearly exceed the authority of the executive branch, as they take a sledgehammer to the immigration laws that Congress crafted over many generations.”

Donahue writes that it is economically counterproductive to lock out skilled workers and kick out international students. In reference to the administration’s continued threats to end DACA despite the recent Supreme Court ruling that it had not provided a good reason to do so, Donohue states, “If you want children to grow up to reach their potential and live their American dream, you give them the tools and certainty to succeed; you don’t kick them out of the only country they’ve ever known.”


The Chamber’s eruption of rage at Trump’s nativism got shouted down by all the crass Noise this past week, including Trump’s threat to send tens of thousands of federal officers into cities around the country and the epithets that Ted Yoho lobbed at fellow representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. (AOC held her own, publicly shaming Yoho with a powerful speech delivered from the floor of the chamber.)

But make no mistake: Even if it didn’t command the headlines last week, the Trump–Chamber of Commerce rift is a big, big deal. If the group breaks with Trump and sours on the Republican project more generally—and if the businesses it represents start to distance themselves from a Trumpified GOP—that could signal a major realignment, barely three months before the election.

Also in the pigs-can-fly category: Trump has spent much of his time in the White House trying to eviscerate the Affordable Care Act and cozying up to Big Pharma and the worst for-profit elements of the health care system. Last week, however, the Trump administration announced four executive orders seeking to rein in drug costs. One of these orders would allow patients to import lower-cost drugs from Canada. Another would seek to drive down drug prices in the United States by limiting Big Pharma’s ability to charge Medicare and other bulk purchasers more than it would charge in other countries. ......... .................................


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President Donald Trump speaks in front of a fake “pharmacy” backdrop at the White House complex, July 24, 2020. (Alex Brandon / AP Photo)







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July 30, 2020

OMG!! Epic Trump trolling by @VicenteFoxQue !! I love it so hard!! Face with tears of joy Face with

I have not seen him around lately. Good way to start the day


https://twitter.com/MysterySolvent/status/1205640246018396163?s=20


https://twitter.com/markwallin02/status/1229397535216656384?s=20

July 30, 2020

Whats up with Trumps Right foot as he walks.???.........It is definitely NOT a normal gait

???
It is definitely NOT a normal gait.





https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1288685195672064001?s=20

July 29, 2020

Trump tells suburban voters they will 'no longer be bothered' by low-income housing

Source: cnbc




Published Wed, Jul 29 202012:54 PM EDT Updated 2 Hours Ago


“I am happy to inform all of the people living their Suburban Lifestyle Dream that you will no longer be bothered or financially hurt by having low income housing built in your neighborhood,” Trump tweeted Wednesday.
Earlier this month, the Trump administration replaced an Obama-era fair housing rule with its own rule, dubbed “Preserving Community and Neighborhood Choice.”
The tweets mark an escalation of Trump’s campaign strategy of trying to stoke fear in suburban voters of poor urban residents, who are overwhelmingly people of color.


WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump on Wednesday made one of his most overt appeals so far in the campaign to White, suburban voters, saying in a tweet that they will no longer be “bothered” by low income housing in their suburbs. ...................................................................


Trump’s tweet refers to the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule, an Obama administration update to the 1968 civil rights legislation, the Fair Housing Act. The rule required local governments receiving federal funds for housing and development to account for biased practices and craft a plan to fix them.............................................

Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/29/trump-suburban-voters-will-no-longer-be-bothered-by-low-income-housing.html

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https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1288509568578777088?s=20

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1288509572223651840?s=20



https://twitter.com/VABVOX/status/1288532488617418752?s=20

https://twitter.com/the_resistor/status/1288510627246272517?s=





https://twitter.com/onlytruthhere/status/1288516153757675520?s=20

July 29, 2020

Rep Mucarsel-Powell, D, FL tells Louie Gohmert, R, Tx he is a bad example for his constituents.....

Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell @RepDMP
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1h
.@replouiegohmert
, my 80-year-old mother lives with me. Our chairman’s wife has cancer.

By refusing to wear a mask, you‘ve put them, staff & your colleagues at risk. You also set a terrible example for constituents who see your actions as permission to also act carelessly.

https://twitter.com/RepDMP/status/1288552158271549442?s=20



https://twitter.com/RepDMP/status/1288552384961097729?s=20




https://twitter.com/DianeMichelle66/status/1288573336704950273?s=20



And a different topic from Rep Mucarsel-Powell..............


Mucarsel-Powell sets off Twitter fight after comparing Portland protests to Venezuela

https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article244556132.html

By Alex Daugherty
July 28, 2020 07:22 PM , Updated 7 hours 22 minutes ago


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“Look at these videos for one second,” Mucarsel-Powell said to Barr, referring to a video of protests from both Venezuela and Portland. “We have seen violence in Venezuela at the hands of Maduro. Firing tear gas at protesters and using brutal tactics to crush demonstrations. That’s what we see from dictators on both the left and the right. But it’s hard to distinguish those photos from the events and what we’ve seen by U.S. federal police in Portland tear gassing and breaking the bones of a peacefully protesting U.S. Army veteran. Very similar.”

Miami Republican Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, who was not at the hearing, quickly responded.


“I am shocked that she is unable to distinguish between the actions of the honorable men and women in law enforcement who risk their lives to defend the rule of law, and Maduro’s thugs who oppress, torture, and kill on behalf of a murderous, anti-American dictatorship,” Diaz-Balart tweeted. “Mucarsel-Powell should apologize immediately for her disgraceful insults to those who risk their lives to secure the rights and freedoms that we cherish, and who serve to protect the lives and property of Americans.”

Mucarsel-Powell, the first member of Congress born in South America, tweeted back with a video of Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, the Judiciary Committee’s top Republican, asking House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler during the hearing whether the video was shot in the U.S. or Venezuela.

“I just want a clarification,” Jordan said.
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Read more here: https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article244556132.html#storylink=cpy

July 29, 2020

How Bill Barr Is Helping Vladimir Putin He's no useful idiot for Moscow. He's just useful.

worth the time to read.


19 mins ago
How Bill Barr Is Helping Vladimir Putin
He’s no useful idiot for Moscow. He’s just useful.


https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/07/how-bill-barr-is-helping-vladimir-putin/?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=naytev&utm_medium=social


David Corn Washington, DC, Bureau Chief



Attorney General Bill Barr appears before the House Judiciary Committee on July 28, 2020.Matt Mcclain/CNP via ZUMA


When Attorney General Bill Barr appeared before the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, there were plenty of contentious exchanges. The nation’s top law enforcement official defended both his unusual intervention in criminal cases involving Donald Trump’s pals and the Trump administration’s violent response to protesters in Portland and Washington, DC. But there was a troubling moment that did not generate headlines and that underscored a disturbing point: Barr is helping Vladimir Putin’s effort to subvert American democracy.

Barr has disincentivized the entire FBI from probing any possible repeat of 2016.

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In May, when Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe testified during his Senate confirmation hearing, he noted several times that the intelligence community already had evidence that Russia was intervening in the 2020 election. In February, FBI director Christopher Wray testified before the House Judiciary Committee that Russia was again engaged in clandestine “information warfare” similar to what it mounted during the 2016 election. Neither Ratcliffe nor Wray in their public testimony detailed Moscow’s actions. But shortly after Wray’s appearance, intelligence officials privately told members of Congress that Putin was interfering in the 2020 contest to once more assist Trump. (Trump, of course, denied Russia was taking secret steps to help him.)

Barr referenced none of these warnings. He he did not cite intelligence that apparently indicates Russia is currently running covert ops to help Trump. He provided as minimalist a response as he could to Richmond’s query: We should assume Russia is doing something. He low-balled the matter, presumably to help Trump, who for years has denied or dismissed the fact that Russia successfully intervened in the 2016 election to boost his chances. In doing so, Barr also assisted Putin’s operation by not drawing attention to it. Imagine if Barr had declared, We have evidence that Russia is now interfering in the 2020 election, and we will not stand for it. That would have been a story and raised the question: What is the Trump administration doing on this front? Instead, Barr brushed aside this crucial matter.

And there’s more. In his opening statement, Barr denounced the Russiagate scandal as “bogus.” When Barr does this, he is referring to the FBI’s investigation of contacts between the Trump campaign and Russia in 2016 during the Kremlin’s assault on the election. Barr is wrong to suggest there was no cause for the FBI to be concerned about these interactions. (These interactions included: Trump’s campaign manager, Paul Manafort, privately communicating during the election with a Russian oligarch close to Putin and with a former business associate suspected by the FBI of being a Russian intelligence asset. Manafort, Jared Kushner, and Donald Trump Jr. secretly meeting with a Kremlin agent as part of what they were told was a covert Moscow effort to help the Trump campaign. Campaign aide George Papadopoulos being privately informed that Russia had “dirt” on Hillary Clinton and subsequently attempting to develop a back-channel between the Trump campaign and Putin’s office. And Roger Stone, at Trump’s behest, privately trying to obtain inside information from WikiLeaks, while that website was dumping Democratic material stolen by Russian hackers.) But more importantly, whenever Barr dismisses the investigation of Trump-Russia contacts, he conveys the impression that Trump is correct to call the whole affair a “hoax.” That is, Barr bolsters the false Trumpian notion that nothing significant happened in 2016 with Russia—not with the campaign’s Russian contacts, not with Putin’s intervention in the election.

Barr assists Putin in yet another way. Since becoming attorney general, Barr has been running a crusade against the FBI’s Trump-Russia investigation. He claims this probe was a grave abuse of law enforcement power and, in this regard, supports Trump’s conspiracy theory that the Obama administration in 2016 cooked up a phony scandal in order to spy on Trump. This is what Trump and his Fox cult supporters call “Spygate” or “Obamagate.“ Barr has assigned several US attorneys to investigate different aspects of the Russia investigation (which did have a problem in one area—the surveillance warrant for former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page—but which an inspector general concluded was not the product of any political bias). As Barr has launched these investigations, he has also intervened to help Trump cronies who were targets of the FBI’s Russia probe (which eventually became special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation). Barr ordered the erasure of the case against Michael Flynn, Trump’s onetime national security adviser who pleaded guilty to lying to federal investigators, and directed the Justice Department to reduce the sentence it sought for Roger Stone, who was found guilty of lying to Congress.

Consider the implications of all of this for any FBI agent or federal investigator who now wants to look into clandestine Russian efforts to assist Trump in the 2020 election. You would have to be crazy to seek or take on such an assignment. Trump and his supporters have shown that they will decry any such investigation as a “hoax” and target the investigators as Deep State plotters who ought to be publicly denounced and punished. Barr has signaled he is willing to sic his own investigators on anyone within the FBI or Justice Department who dares dig into Russian intervention in a US election. The message to an FBI agent who might want to pursue such a matter is clear: This is career suicide. Barr has disincentivized the entire FBI from probing any possible repeat of 2016. This is great news for Putin and his operatives. .....................................

July 29, 2020

Trump Melts Down on Air Force One with Angry, Bitter Tweetstorm, 'Sick and Tired Of It!!'

https://twitter.com/realTuckFrumper/status/1288521531484758019?s=20


Trump Melts Down on Air Force One with Angry, Bitter Tweetstorm, ‘Sick and Tired Of It!!’


https://www.politicalflare.com/2020/07/trump-melts-down-on-air-force-one-with-angry-bitter-tweetstorm-sick-and-tired-of-it/

By Jason Miciak July 29, 2020


It is on now from a very angry Donald Trump.

Things have not been going well for Trump lately, having endorsed demon sperm, alien DNA, and reptilians. His buddy Louis Gohmert has COVID and is busy spreading it around the Capitol – so Trump should feel vulnerable to COVID, but won’t. He is losing big to Biden, and has made his own campaign that much harder with self-inflicted wounds every time he speaks to a camera … or tweets.

He had a huge makeup fail, that we’ve already covered.



And boy is he ever tweeting his ass off this morning. We shall attempt to line them up in some sensible order, hitting only the highlights with a few comments thrown in between. Hang on............................


https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1288109090061705222?s=20

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1288109093694005253?s=20



https://twitter.com/itsJeffTiedrich/status/1288113350832865286?s=20






https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1288519158368481280?s=20

July 29, 2020

Dangerously STUPID Louie Gohmert says he might have gotten COVID-19 from wearing a face mask

DAMN! gohmert is a stupid selfish man!



https://twitter.com/mmpadellan/status/1288488551362035713?s=20




Louie Gohmert says he might have gotten COVID-19 from wearing a face mask

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/07/louie-gohmert-says-he-might-have-gotten-19-from-wearing-a-face-mask/

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Just hours before Gohmert was scheduled to travel with President Donald Trump to Texas, the congressman confirmed that he had tested positive for COVID-19.

Gohmert, who refused to wear a mask at a hearing on Tuesday, told KETK that he may have contracted the disease from a facial covering.

“It’s really ironic because a lot of people have made a really big deal out of my not wearing a mask a whole lot, but in the last week or two, I have worn a mask more than I have in the whole last four months,” Gohmert explained.


“I can’t help but wonder if by keeping a mask on and keeping it in place, if I might have put some germs, some of the virus on the mask and breathed it in,” he speculated. “I don’t know but I got it.”....................................................................................................




https://twitter.com/RawStory/status/1288523725600694274?s=20

July 29, 2020

Trump boot-licker Peter is pushing folks to take chloroquine b/c WH is bought millions of does.....

The CNN host even cut his interview short---see below

Navarro SHOULD BE FIRED RIGHT NO
W



Anyone see Peter Navarro on CNN just now pleading with everyone to give chloroquine (which doesn’t help covid) a 2nd chance because he has millions of tablets... This is some seriously bizarre BS....

https://twitter.com/Nomiblocksjerks/status/1288463104548974597?s=20



Berman had to cut him off................


NAVARRO: "The China virus. The CCP virus."

@JohnBerman
: "You know what? We let you say that once, Peter. Please don't say that again on this show."

NAVARRO: "The China virus."

BERMAN: "Alright. Peter Navarro, we appreciate you being with us."
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1288467302548201472?s=20



https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1288464762989359106?s=20https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1288466520805384194?s=20



https://twitter.com/BadFoxGraphics/status/1288451050962395137?s=20



https://twitter.com/prairielive/status/1288470942319075328?s=20