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Post by jdredd on Aug 31, 2019 1:52:03 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2019/08/30/business/media/trump-fox-news.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=HomepageNeil Cavuto, an anchor for Fox News and Fox Business Network who has been critical of Mr. Trump in the past, said on the air: “Mr. President, we don’t work for you. I don’t work for you. My job is to cover you, not fawn over you or rip you. Just report on you — to call balls and strikes on you. My job, Mr. President — our job here — is to keep score, not settle scores.” “You’re entitled to your point of view, Mr. President,” he continued. “But you’re not entitled to your own set of facts.” Brit Hume, a senior political analyst for Fox News, echoed Mr. Cavuto’s comments and tweeted, “Fox News isn’t supposed to work for you.” “We have tried to be fair to him in our news coverage,” Mr. Hume said in another tweet responding to someone who had asked why Mr. Trump thought Fox worked for him. “Best example: we didn’t fall for the Russia conspiracy theory that ended in such a fiasco for other outlets. Plus, some of our opinion hosts support Trump. (Others don’t.)” Even some Faux News bozos are starting to feel the insanity.
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Post by jdredd on Nov 4, 2019 16:07:39 GMT -5
www.nationalreview.com/corner/hit-the-panic-button-and-choose-carefully-democrats/"The New York Times may have really scrambled the Democratic presidential primary with the eye-opening poll numbers that Rich discusses here. In a nutshell, none of the big three Democratic contenders look like a slam dunk in the six states most likely to determine the 2020 election: Arizona, Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Biden does best, but his leads are one to two percentage points – hardly a safe bet, with a year to go and the former vice president seeming not quite as verbally and mentally sharp as Democrats would prefer. Previous polling suggested Trump had lost at least a small portion of his base of supporters from three years ago. Maybe not! “In contrast to recent national surveys, the Times/Siena polls find that the president’s lead among white, working-class voters nearly matches his decisive advantage from 2016. This group represents nearly half of registered voters in these states, and a majority in the Northern battlegrounds that decided the last election.” If you’re a Democrat who has nagging doubts about the big three, maybe it’s time to take one last long look at Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar or Cory Booker as some sort of consensus candidate. Heck, maybe even Kamala Harris, although no other Democratic candidate’s numbers have tumbled the way hers have. (On July 5, Harris ranked second in the RealClearPolitics average!)" Still one more righty pundit telling the Dems to move to the squishy center. Like they have any interest in anything but the Dem's defeat. But trying to win back uneducated white voters is a waste of energy. What interests me about the quoted poll is that Warren loses to Trump by six points in Michigan but wins by 3 points in Arizona. She wins in an up-and-coming state but loses in a state in decay.
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Post by jdredd on Dec 28, 2019 14:08:01 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/27/opinion/sunday/2010s-america-trump.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage"Mr. Trump’s improbable rise benefited from a perfect storm of larger economic, social and demographic changes, and the profoundly disruptive effects of new technology. His ascent also coincided with the rising anxieties and sense of dislocation produced by such tectonic shifts. Around the world, liberal democracy is facing grave new challenges, authoritarianism is on the rise and science is being questioned by “post-fact” politicians. Echoes of Mr. Trump’s nativist populism can be found in Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain’s recent electoral victory and the Brexit referendum of 2016, and in the ascent of the far-right President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil. Democracy is under threat in Hungary and Poland. Once fringe right-wing parties with openly racist agendas are rebranding themselves in Sweden and Belgium. And far-right groups in Germany and Spain are now the third-largest parties in those nations’ parliaments." I'm not the only one who is thinking Trump is just a symptom of a larger illness.
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Post by jdredd on Feb 11, 2020 19:17:30 GMT -5
Rightie pundits seem to be getting a lot of mileage from claiming Trump's opponents have "Trump Derangement Syndrome", which is excessive hatred of Trump. I have total contempt for the guy. Does that count?
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Post by jdredd on Mar 18, 2020 17:25:13 GMT -5
www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/18/white-nationalist-hate-groups-southern-poverty-law-center" White nationalist hate groups in the US have increased 55% throughout the Trump era, according to a new report by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), and a “surging” racist movement continues to be driven by “a deep fear of demographic change”. Nationally, there were 155 such groups counted last year, and they were present in most states. These groups were counted separately from Ku Klux Klan groups, racist skinheads, Christian Identity groups, and neo-Confederate groups, all of which also express some version of white supremacist beliefs. Since the turn of the millennium, the report says, “American racists have fretted over what they fear will be the loss of their place of dominance in society” as its racial composition changes." I've been procrastinating donating to the SPLC but I think it's about time.
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Post by jdredd on May 1, 2020 2:01:13 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/opinion/coronavirus-unity.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage"Even in a pandemic there are weavers and rippers. The weavers try to spiritually hold each other so we can get through this together. The rippers, from Donald Trump on down, see everything through the prism of politics and still emphasize division. For the rippers on left and right, politics is a war that gives life meaning.Fortunately, the rippers are not winning. America is pretty united right now. In an ABC News/Ipsos poll last week, 98 percent of Democrats and 82 percent of Republicans supported social-distancing rules. According to a Yahoo News/YouGov survey, nearly 90 percent of Americans think a second wave of the virus would be at least somewhat likely if we ended the lockdowns today." Is old Dave saying Trump and I are birds of a feather? He may be right. But "unity" has often been used as a cover for the bad guys to get their way.
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Post by jdredd on May 25, 2020 17:50:00 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2020/05/25/us/politics/trump-rnc-north-carolina.html?action=click&module=Latest&pgtype=Homepage"President Trump on Monday threatened to yank the Republican National Convention from Charlotte, N.C., where it is scheduled to be held in August, accusing the state’s Democratic governor of being in a “shutdown mood” that could prevent a fully attended event. The president tweeted that he had “LOVE” for North Carolina, a swing state that he won in 2016, but he added that without a “guarantee” from the governor, Roy Cooper, that the event could be held at full capacity, “we would be spending millions of dollars building the Arena to a very high standard without even knowing if the Democrat Governor would allow the Republican Party to fully occupy the space.” Mr. Trump wrote that if Mr. Cooper did not provide an answer “immediately,” he would “be reluctantly forced to find, with all of the jobs and economic development it brings, another Republican National Convention site. This is not something I want to do.” Has there ever been a President as petty as this one? You tell me.
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Post by jdredd on May 29, 2020 12:37:38 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2020/05/29/us/politics/trump-looting-shooting.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage"Mr. Floyd was killed on Monday after one of the officers, who were responding to a call about an alleged counterfeit bill used at a store, knelt on his neck while he was handcuffed and lying face down on the ground. Mr. Floyd called out, “I can’t breathe.” The officer, Derek Chauvin, and the three others were fired the next day. On Friday afternoon, Minnesota officials said that Mr. Chauvin had been arrested. Mr. Trump, in his tweets, denigrated the protesters and issued demands in a situation that was already spiraling out of control. “These THUGS are dishonoring the memory of George Floyd, and I won’t let that happen,” the president wrote in another post, which was flagged by Twitter. “Just spoke to Governor Tim Walz and told him that the Military is with him all the way. Any difficulty and we will assume control but, when the looting starts, the shooting starts. Thank you!” I'm sure Mr. Trump believes he can win again playing to his older white base, but is it possible even HE can overplay his hand?
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Post by jdredd on Jun 6, 2020 13:38:14 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2020/06/05/opinion/donald-trump.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage"Trump is no more responsible for the policing in Minneapolis than Barack Obama was responsible for policing in Ferguson. I doubt the pandemic would have been handled much better by a Hillary Clinton administration, especially considering the catastrophic errors of judgment by people like Bill de Blasio and Andrew Cuomo. And our economic woes are largely the result of a lockdown strategy most avidly embraced by the president’s critics. But the point here isn’t that Trump is responsible for the nation’s wounds. It’s that he is the reason some of those wounds have festered and why none of them can heal, at least for as long as he remains in office. Until we have a president who can say, as Lincoln did in his first inaugural, “We are not enemies, but friends” — and be believed in the bargain — our national agony will only grow worse." Republicans with integrity are starting to bubble to the surface. Even someone as far to the right as Bret Stevens is starting to point out Trump's illness.
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Post by jdredd on Jun 19, 2020 14:52:14 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2020/06/19/us/juneteenth-2020.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage"President Trump on Friday morning issued a thinly veiled threat to individuals who want to protest his campaign rally scheduled for Saturday evening in Tulsa, Okla., adding divisive rhetoric to a Juneteenth holiday that is serving as a moment of national reflection over the country’s racist history. “Any protesters, anarchists, agitators, looters or lowlifes who are going to Oklahoma please understand, you will not be treated like you have been in New York, Seattle, or Minneapolis,” Mr. Trump wrote on Twitter. “It will be a much different scene!”
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Post by jdredd on Jun 19, 2020 14:55:16 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2020/06/19/us/juneteenth-2020.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage"President Trump on Friday morning issued a thinly veiled threat to individuals who want to protest his campaign rally scheduled for Saturday evening in Tulsa, Okla., adding divisive rhetoric to a Juneteenth holiday that is serving as a moment of national reflection over the country’s racist history. “Any protesters, anarchists, agitators, looters or lowlifes who are going to Oklahoma please understand, you will not be treated like you have been in New York, Seattle, or Minneapolis,” Mr. Trump wrote on Twitter. “It will be a much different scene!” I, too, have to question the judgement of anyone dumb enough to go to Oklahoma for any reason!
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Post by jdredd on Jun 26, 2020 2:17:14 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2020/06/25/opinion/us-coronavirus-protests.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage"How exactly is all this cultural agitation going to lead to legislation that will decrease income disparities, create better housing policies or tackle the big challenges that I listed above? That part is never spelled out. In fact, the Sturm und Drang makes political work harder. You can’t purify your way to a governing majority. The Social Justice methodology is ultimately not a solution to our problem, it’s a symptom of our problem. Over the last half century, we’ve turned politics from a practical way to solve common problems into a cultural arena to display resentments. Donald Trump is the ultimate performer in this paralyzed arena." "I know a lot of people aren’t excited about him, but I thank God that Joe Biden is going to be nominated by the Democratic Party. He came to public life when it wasn’t about performing your zeal, it was about crafting coalitions and legislating. He exudes a spirit that is about empathy and friendship not animosity and canceling. The pragmatic spirit of the New Deal is a more apt guide for the years ahead than the spirit of critical theory symbology."
Why am I surprised Mr. Can't-we-all-get-along Brooks would be praising Biden? When I think about it, Biden is the can't-we-just-get-along candidate, while Trump is the take-no-prisoners candidate. Who is America most in the mood for in 2020?
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Post by jdredd on Aug 7, 2020 0:37:03 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2020/08/06/technology/trump-wechat-tiktok-china.html?action=click&auth=login-email&login=email&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage"WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has announced sweeping restrictions on two popular Chinese social media networks, TikTok and WeChat, a sharp escalation of its confrontation with China that is likely to be met with retaliation. Two executive orders, released late Thursday and taking effect in 45 days, cited national security concerns to bar any transactions with WeChat or TikTok by any person or involving any property subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. The order essentially sets a 45-day deadline for an acquisition of TikTok, which is in talks to be acquired by Microsoft." A moron Boomer sticking it to the Millennials. Again. Maybe this will wake them up too, like BLM.
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Post by jdredd on Aug 12, 2020 15:56:17 GMT -5
So Trump says that Kamala is "nasty". I sure hope he's right.
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Post by jdredd on Oct 1, 2020 19:21:43 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2020/10/01/opinion/trump-ethics-immorality.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage"Some Republicans see Trump’s immorality as a sideshow they will tolerate to secure other goods. But his immorality is voracious, a widening gyre that threatens the basic stability of civic life. If he undermines this election, and his Republican enablers let him, he’ll approach what comes next with appalling ferocity." Wow, chronic fence-straddler Dave finally is forced to take a stand. Probably only Trump could have made that happen.
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