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bluewater's Journal"It is coming, and it's coming like a freight train."
https://twitter.com/bylenasun/status/1289588415189659648When the Australian journalist interviewing Trump pointed out that the US has the highest number of covid-19 deaths per capita in the world, Trump replied: "You can't do that."
It was a sweeping conversation with Axios’ Jonathan Swan that produced a string of jaw-dropping and maddening moments. But even in the long list of appalling remarks from the president, the worst exchanges are likely to be remembered as these.
“You can’t do that.”
In a heated back and forth, Trump and Swan sparred over the best statistics to assess the United States’ response to the coronavirus pandemic. Trump falsely asserted that US deaths from the virus are “lower” than anywhere in the world, rifling through a disorganized stack of printed charts to somehow back the absurd claim. “Lower than the world? In what?” Swan asked.
Glancing at the charts Trump was referencing, Swan said, “You’re doing death as a proportion of cases. I’m talking about death as a proportion of the population.”
“You can’t do that,” an outraged Trump replied.
https://www.motherjones.com/coronavirus-updates/2020/08/the-three-worst-moments-from-trumps-newest-axios-interview/
Trump is a moron.
Trump pronounces Yosemite as "yo-Semites" at White House event.
https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/1290664055154319362General Kelly, Trump's former Chief of Staff, was right calling Trump a "moron".
Tuesday, November 3rd cannot come soon enough.
Joe Biden: "Everyone thought I was nuts"
https://twitter.com/mviser/status/1290390071783362560Great insight, Joe, and thank you for warning us all publicly that Trump will stop at nothing to delay and delegitimize the election.
Repubs know they are going to lose... They are starting up the "Debt Crisis" talk already
https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/1290334894460211200Same old same old; the "Debt Crisis" only is an issue when Democrats are in control.
Democrats warn GOP: Don't fill a Supreme Court vacancy in 2020 or we'll retaliate
Source: NBC News
Senate talk of a potential — but uncertain — opening close to a presidential election has reignited a clash over the future of the court.
Democrats are warning Republicans not to fill a possible Supreme Court vacancy this year after denying President Barack Obama the chance in 2016, saying it would embolden a push on the left to add seats to the court whenever they regain power.
"We knew basically they were lying in 2016, when they said, 'Oh, we can't do this because it's an election year.' We knew they didn't want to do it because it was President Obama," Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., said in an interview.
Kaine, the party's last vice presidential nominee and a lawmaker with a reputation as an institutionalist, said confirming a nominee of President Donald Trump this year could compel Democrats to consider adding seats to the high court.
"If they show that they're unwilling to respect precedent, rules and history, then they can't feign surprise when others talk about using a statutory option that we have that's fully constitutional in our availability," he said. "I don't want to do that. But if they act in such a way, they may push it to an inevitability. So they need to be careful about that."
In a sweeping statement of intent, the Democratic National Committee is poised to add language to the party's 2020 platform endorsing "structural court reforms to increase transparency and accountability."
The draft language, reviewed by NBC News and expected to be approved later this month, denounces Republicans as having "packed our federal courts with unqualified, partisan judges who consistently rule for corporations, the wealthy, and Republican interests" and for "blocking a Democratic president from appointing a justice to the Supreme Court."
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/democrats-warn-gop-don-t-fill-supreme-court-vacancy-2020-n1234885
Today's the day!!!!!
https://twitter.com/ktumulty/status/1289881456488022016
He's an inveterate liar; even the MAGAts are wising up to Don the Con as his poll numbers plummet.
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