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Demovictory9's JournalNy times editorial about trump's latest storm of lies
There he goes again.
With Republicans struggling to keep their grip on Congress, President Trump is dialing up the demagogy. At campaign rallies and on social media, he’s spewing dark warnings about a Democratic mob clamoring to usher in an era of open borders, rampant crime, social chaos and economic radicalism.
As is so often the case, Mr. Trump is not letting reality interfere with his performance. At a rally in Nevada this weekend, the president told the crowd that Californians were rioting to “get out of their sanctuary cities.” (They aren’t.) He also suggested that Democrats will soon be looking to hand out free luxury cars to illegal immigrants. (They won’t.) “Give ’em a driver’s license. Next thing you know, they’ll want to buy ’em a car,” he riffed. “Then they’ll say the car’s not good enough, we want — how about a Rolls-Royce?”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/22/opinion/editorials/transgender-trump-lies-midterm-election.html#click=https://t.co/Qo5wTZW3NN
It is notable if not surprising that two of the widely popular policy issues Mr. Trump has been talking up — his commitment to protecting health care coverage for people with pre-existing conditions and his promise to put forward “a very major tax cut” for middle-income people in the next few weeks — have no basis in reality. This administration has specifically declined to defend pre-existing conditions against pending legal challenges. And with Congress out of session until after the elections, there can be no serious movement on tax policy until the lame-duck session.
Thus, as Mr. Trump moves to make the case for Republicans in the midterms, he has few options beyond revving up his base. Which might be motivating — possibly even energizing — for some die-hard partisans on both sides of the battle. But it is more than a little dispiriting for the millions of Americans already exhausted by seemingly endless outrage. And it is really bad for the country.
Trump lie of the hour... claiming caravan contains "unknown middle easterners" with no proof
https://nypost.com/2018/10/22/trump-claims-migrant-caravan-contains-unknown-middle-easterners/President Trump on Monday claimed without offering any evidence that “criminals and unknown Middle Easterners” are among the growing caravan of Central American migrants heading to the United States.
“Sadly, it looks like Mexico’s Police and Military are unable to stop the Caravan heading to the Southern Border of the United States. Criminals and unknown Middle Easterners are mixed in. I have alerted Border Patrol and Military that this is a National Emergy (sic). Must change laws!,” Trump wrote on Twitter, without clarifying what he meant.
Trump says US will 'turn away' migrant caravan at border
His claim was quickly called out on the social messaging site.
“Total BS! You have no idea who is in this ‘caravan’ except Central Americans fleeing oppression and starvation. Why not show them some sympathy and ease their burden,” wrote westend999 on Twitter.
Another blamed Trump for spreading racial hatred.
“‘Unknown Middle Easterners are mixed in.’ Obviously all brown-skinned people look alike to you, you racist liar. But, hey, keep stoking hate,” Ellen Hopkins wrote.
Another user pointed out the absurdity of blending into the group only to wind up in an immigration camp.
A concertgoer rustled a bag of gum during a Mahler symphony. A 'violent attack' ensued.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/10/22/concert-goer-rustled-bag-gum-during-mahler-symphony-violent-attack-ensued/?utm_term=.ffe31cfc6fb0As Andris Nelsons, an eminent Latvian conductor, coaxed the quiet notes from the string section of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, a woman in the balcony rustled a bag of gum, the Sydsvenskan newspaper reported. A young man sitting next to her glared a few times and then lost his patience. He snatched the bag from her and threw it onto the floor.
Witnesses told the daily newspaper published in southern Sweden that the woman sat stoically through the rest of the Adagietto, which typically lasts about 10 minutes (“very slow,” Mahler instructed in the score), and the vigorous and triumphant finale. The symphony, composed in 1901 and 1902, has been described as a “large-scale journey,” similar to climbing Mount Everest. Leonard Bernstein conducted the Adagietto at the funeral for Robert F. Kennedy in 1968.
But as the concert hall vibrated with the final, resounding notes, and as applause rang out, she exacted her revenge.
The gum-rustler turned to her neighbor and uttered something, eyewitnesses told the newspaper, and then proceeded to smack him in the face, knocking off his glasses. The woman’s male companion then grabbed the man by the shirt and began to punch him, as the seizer of the gum sought to defend himself.
“It was very unpleasant actually. I’ve never seen anything like it,” said Olof Jonsson, who was sitting in the row behind the brawling patrons. He described the salvo from the woman and her ally as a “violent attack.” At one point, as the tension seemed to ease, the woman’s companion walked toward the younger man as if to converse with him, but then punched him in the stomach.
Other patrons intervened, establishing a cease-fire.
Trump's magic math on jobs from the Saudi arms deal
https://twitter.com/jonathanvswan/status/1054163712490131456The bottom line: From which source did Trump get these rapidly inflating statistics? I asked the White House press office. No response by deadline.
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https://www.axios.com/donald-trump-jobs-math-saudi-arabia-arms-deal-0b421bda-7736-4bd3-9630-cb9f7e91f550.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=twsocialshare&utm_campaign=organic
In a 2007 deposition, Donald Trump said his estimates of his net worth go "up and down with the markets and with attitudes and with feelings, even my own feelings..."
Why it matters: Now that he's president of the United States, Trump appears to be taking a similar feelings-based method to assessing the number of U.S. jobs gained from his arms deal with Saudi Arabia.
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The Toronto Star's Daniel Dale points out:
On March 20, during the Crown Prince's visit, Trump claimed the Saudi purchases of U.S. weapons he arranged would generate "over 40,000 jobs in the United States."
Last Saturday, Oct. 13, when Trump was asked if he's considering punishing Saudi Arabia for murdering Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, Trump mentioned the same arms deal as the reason he was reluctant to stop the arms sales. That time, he said the deal created 450,000 jobs.
On Wednesday, Oct. 17, during a Fox Business interview, Trump inflated the statistic to 500,000 jobs.
On Friday, at lunchtime during a water rights memorandum signing, Trump increased the jobs number to 600,000.
A few hours later, on Friday evening at Luke Air Force Base in Arizona, Trump said the deal was worth 600,000 jobs for the military but "over a million jobs" in total.
The bottom line: From which source did Trump get these rapidly inflating statistics? I asked the White House press office. No response by deadline.
John Cox and the Sad State of California's GOP
John Cox and the Sad State of California’s GOP
Republicans have become so disempowered in the state that their gubernatorial nominee is an Illinoisan who has lost every race he’s run.
By SCOTT LUCAS October 21, 2018
help is on the way.” That’s the message Republican John Cox hoped to deliver to voters on a recently concluded 30-stop bus tour of California in the waning days of the 2018 election for governor. Trailing his Democratic opponent, Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom, by double digits in most polls, Cox took his bid directly to the voters, meeting with workers who make Sriracha hot sauce in Irwindale, attending Mass at Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Indio, touring a homeless shelter in San Diego, and pressing the flesh at a Department of Motor Vehicles office in Fremont and a car show in Stockton. In Chico, he buttonholed drivers at the Costco gas station, until security asked him to leave.
It was an unusual itinerary for a statewide candidate—bypassing many of the big cities where the bulk of the state’s voters live. That’s because, for Cox, as for many Republicans here, there is little return on going to places dominated by Democratic voters who loathe President Donald Trump and the party that empowers him. Cox, as a result, has taken to the periphery with his moderate, business-friendly brand of Republicanism, crafted to broaden his appeal to lower- and middle-class voters worried about the high cost of living in the state.
“It’s all about affordability,” Cox said at a campaign stop in Sacramento, offering himself as the solution to the state’s housing crisis and voicing support for a proposition to repeal a recent increase in the state’s tax on gas. “How can I live when I can’t find a house I can afford or an apartment that I can afford, or my gas is climbing to almost $4 a gallon, if not over it in some parts?”
It’s a message that very well could resonate with voters—even if the messenger likely will not. Call it the Cox paradox: A cerebral, quixotic, 63-year-old Illinois snowbird with a personal fortune and a political résumé that includes three losing bids in that state, as well as an abortive presidential bid in the 2008 race, is running a campaign that not even other Republicans are eager to support. Yet he finds himself at the top of the ticket for the GOP here.
Some of his political allies freely admit he would be more suited to run for another office in California first. “It’s an odd hobby,” Pat Brady, a Republican consultant and former GOP chair in Illinois, says of Cox’s repeated quests for office. The best he is likely to do is to spur conservative turnout in the half-dozen most competitive House districts. The worst he can do? Well, it’s hard to go lower than the 10 votes he won in the Iowa presidential caucus a decade ago. (Cox declined to be interviewed for this article.)
Most despicable tweet of the day "make napalm great again" in response to caravan
and he attaches his picture and name to this tweet and feels no shame
for those of you without twitter:
James Woods tweets... "Here come the democrats" in response to migrant caravan.
Joe Biggs replies "make napalm great again"
https://twitter.com/Rambobiggs/status/1054162894038949888
We have to get out and vote like we're 10 points down. No complacency.
Do me, yourself, and the country a favor:
Don’t look at one poll between now and Election Day. We have to get out and vote like we’re 10 points down. No complacency.
9:28 AM - 21 Oct 2018
https://twitter.com/AngrierWHStaff/status/1054046857805156353
caravan swells to 5000 (cooperative team effort to avoid predators)
it's not that more people are coming. It's that a cooperative method of migrating has developed...traveling in large groups. to avoid the robberies and rapes and beatings that have victimized other migrants. they are helping and protecting each other.
Whether you are anti-immigration or not... I think most people can agree that it's a good thing that migrants are safer. not traumatized and victimized.
some picture below. Yes, from the Dailymail, they obtain the best pics
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6300649/Caravan-migrants-swells-5-000-eye-US.html
Georgia county ballot rejection, blacks twice the rate, asians three times the rate
https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/20/politics/gwinnett-county-absentee-ballots/index.htmlOne suburban Georgia county has become a flashpoint for concerns over voter suppression for rejecting hundreds of mail-in absentee ballots weeks before Election Day.
Gwinnett County, located northeast of Atlanta, now faces two federal lawsuits and accusations from voting rights activists who say the rejections disproportionately affect minority voters, particularly Asian Americans and African Americans.
The county has rejected 595 absentee ballots, which account for more than a third of the total absentee-ballot rejections in the state, even though Gwinnett County accounts for only about 6% of absentee ballots submitted in Georgia, according to state data analyzed by CNN Friday. More than 300 of the rejected ballots belonged to African Americans and Asian Americans.
Officials tossed out the ballots due to missing birthdates, address discrepancies, signatures that do not match those on registration records and other issues, according to the data.
A lawsuit brought by the Coalition for Good Governance on behalf of a group of Georgia voters demands that a judge order the county to notify voters within one day of the rejections and provide adequate time to address the discrepancies.
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