occupydemocrats--2020-11-14--Trump publicly trashes Georgia Republicans in fit of rage over election loss

President Trump ’ s week-long tantrum over losing the 2020 election turned inward on Friday night and Saturday morning as he took aim at Georgia ’ s Republican Secretary of State and Republican lawmakers , blaming them for passing pieces of legislation that helped the Democrats cheat — in Trump ’ s deluded mind , that is .
Last night , Trump called Governor Brian Kemp , who most likely did actually steal his election from Stacey Abrams , a “ Republican-in-name-only ” ( RINO ) , complaining about some nonsense about letting people “ check the ballots ” for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was “ very unfair ” and “ close to meaningless ” because “ everybody knows ” that he actually won the state , which he did not .
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Of course , the truth is that the “ consent decree ” that Trump is so angry about does not exist , according to voting rights lawyer Marc E. Elias .
What Trump appears to be referring to is the results of a 2020 lawsuit that forced the state of Georgia to inform @ @ @ @ @ @ @ absentee ballots were rejected due to a mismatched or missing signature , which the state had not previously done in a deliberate effort to disenfranchise voters .
We know at this point that Trump is only doing this as a show for his fans and for his ego , but it is deeply disturbing to see him continue to impugn the integrity of this election for these monstrously selfish reasons .
When he runs in 2024 , as he seems to want to do — if he ’ s still alive , that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ never actually lost and deserves his vindication .
But with two crucial Senate race run-offs that could decide the future of this nation approaching fast , if Trump wants to trash Georgia Republicans , then by all means .
Have at them !

President Trump’s week-long tantrum over losing the 2020 election turned inward on Friday night and Saturday morning as he took aim at Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State and Republican lawmakers, blaming them for passing pieces of legislation that helped the Democrats cheat — in Trump’s deluded mind, that is.
….What are they trying to hide. They know, and so does everyone else. EXPOSE THE CRIME! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 14, 2020
Last night, Trump called Governor Brian Kemp, who most likely did actually steal his election from Stacey Abrams, a “Republican-in-name-only” (RINO), complaining about some nonsense about letting people “check the ballots” for fraud, claiming that the whole process was “very unfair” and “close to meaningless” because “everybody knows” that he actually won the state, which he did not.
Georgia Secretary of State, a so-called Republican (RINO), won’t let the people checking the ballots see the signatures for fraud. Why? Without this the whole process is very unfair and close to meaningless. Everyone knows that we won the state. Where is @BrianKempGA? — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 14, 2020
Add your name to tell Trump: You Lost! Concede!
Of course, the truth is that the “consent decree” that Trump is so angry about does not exist, according to voting rights lawyer Marc E. Elias. What Trump appears to be referring to is the results of a 2020 lawsuit that forced the state of Georgia to inform voters in a timely fashion if their absentee ballots were rejected due to a mismatched or missing signature, which the state had not previously done in a deliberate effort to disenfranchise voters.
We know at this point that Trump is only doing this as a show for his fans and for his ego, but it is deeply disturbing to see him continue to impugn the integrity of this election for these monstrously selfish reasons. When he runs in 2024, as he seems to want to do — if he’s still alive, that is — he can claim that he never actually lost and deserves his vindication.
But with two crucial Senate race run-offs that could decide the future of this nation approaching fast, if Trump wants to trash Georgia Republicans, then by all means. Have at them!
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occupydemocrats--2020-11-16--An old tweet about the stock market comes back to haunt Trump after Biden victory

Since the presidential election was called for Joe Biden , the stock market has risen to near-record heights , despite Donald Trump ’ s prediction of a major collapse on Wall Street if his competitor were to be elected .
Some of that rise is surely attributable to the announcement of two promising COVID-19 vaccines in the days since the election was held , but at least a part of the market optimism can be attributed to the prospect of Trump ’ s imminent departure from the halls of power .
Of course , you won ’ t hear the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ credit for the financial performance of the economy the upward trajectory of which he largely inherited from his predecessor .
With Donald Trump , however , there ’ s always a tweet for that , and Vox ‘ s Aaron Rupar found the perfect example of a post that actually suggests that , if Trump were to attribute credit for the rebounding market , he would have to award it to the man who vanquished him at the ballot box .
Sent back in October of 2019 , the tweet was a way @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for the market rise after the previous presidential election in 2016 , suggesting that the period he should be gauged by should begin not on his inauguration day , but from the very moment his victory was announced , giving him a few extra percentage points to boast about as he was campaigning .
While we aren ’ t likely to see Donald Trump himself resurrect this relatively ancient tweet on his feed anytime soon , it will provide Democrats with ample fodder to counteract whatever outlandish claim the president may make about @ @ @ @ @ @ @ his loss was announced , as he implied today in a more recent post .
At least the vaccine is 95 % more effective than the president himself has been in the nation ’ s battle against COVID-19 .
Twitter commentators had a field day with the newly unearthed tweet , mostly confirming the truism that there is indeed always a tweet .
It ’ s difficult to truly enjoy the schadenfreude of a Donald Trump self-own , however , when the man himself is still insisting that he actually won the election @ @ @ @ @ @ @ election fraud and a vast left-wing and/or deep state conspiracy against him .
If you still need to do something that will tweak this lame-duck president , your best course of action is likely to do everything in your power to ensure that both Raphael Warnock and Join Ossoff get elected to the Senate in their January runoff elections and hand Democrats the majority control of that legislative body , making a Biden/Harris agenda that much easier to enact .
We can save our gloating for the sentencing phases of what will likely @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Trump will face once his presidential immunity disappears .
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Since the presidential election was called for Joe Biden, the stock market has risen to near-record heights, despite Donald Trump’s prediction of a major collapse on Wall Street if his competitor were to be elected.
Some of that rise is surely attributable to the announcement of two promising COVID-19 vaccines in the days since the election was held, but at least a part of the market optimism can be attributed to the prospect of Trump’s imminent departure from the halls of power.
Of course, you won’t hear the current president give his soon-to-be successor any credit for the financial performance of the economy the upward trajectory of which he largely inherited from his predecessor.
With Donald Trump, however, there’s always a tweet for that, and Vox‘s Aaron Rupar found the perfect example of a post that actually suggests that, if Trump were to attribute credit for the rebounding market, he would have to award it to the man who vanquished him at the ballot box.
Sent back in October of 2019, the tweet was a way for Trump to claim credit for himself for the market rise after the previous presidential election in 2016, suggesting that the period he should be gauged by should begin not on his inauguration day, but from the very moment his victory was announced, giving him a few extra percentage points to boast about as he was campaigning.
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1328447426613698563?s=20
While we aren’t likely to see Donald Trump himself resurrect this relatively ancient tweet on his feed anytime soon, it will provide Democrats with ample fodder to counteract whatever outlandish claim the president may make about his stewardship of the American economy since his loss was announced, as he implied today in a more recent post.
STOCK MARKET GETTING VERY CLOSE TO 30,000 ON NEW VACCINE NEWS. 95% EFFECTIVE! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 16, 2020
At least the vaccine is 95% more effective than the president himself has been in the nation’s battle against COVID-19.
Twitter commentators had a field day with the newly unearthed tweet, mostly confirming the truism that there is indeed always a tweet.
More like Nostradumbass. — Rick Owens-The Unfashionable One (@RickOwens70) November 16, 2020
*A convoluted excuse for everything. — CroakTheSquattingToad (@croak_the) November 16, 2020
Drumph and Munchkin sugared the market, bought actual securities with our tax $, eliminated restrictions on "credit" investing, and straight cash in bonds.
Every 400-500 DOW bump creates a profit zone to buy or short the investment.
This is the planned 2008 transfer of billions. — JST (@Jtoillion) November 16, 2020
It’s difficult to truly enjoy the schadenfreude of a Donald Trump self-own, however, when the man himself is still insisting that he actually won the election and continues to make unsubstantiated claims of election fraud and a vast left-wing and/or deep state conspiracy against him.
If you still need to do something that will tweak this lame-duck president, your best course of action is likely to do everything in your power to ensure that both Raphael Warnock and Join Ossoff get elected to the Senate in their January runoff elections and hand Democrats the majority control of that legislative body, making a Biden/Harris agenda that much easier to enact.
We can save our gloating for the sentencing phases of what will likely be the first of many trials that Trump will face once his presidential immunity disappears.
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Original reporting by Aaron Rupar at Vox.
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occupydemocrats--2020-11-16--Ben Shapiro gets roasted after attacking the masculinity of Harry Styles in a dress

While they certainly don ’ t deserve your sympathy because of it , it must be truly exhausting being a conservative sometimes .
Not only do you have to come up with increasingly absurd ways to defend the truly indefensible behavior of Donald Trump , you have to constantly feign outrage over the most inane cultural issues .
The latest target of this collective Republican ire is pop superstar Harry Styles .
In a new issue of Vogue , Styles boldly posed in high-fashion sartorial creations including a frilly dress .
Rather than simply ignoring the photographs or perhaps exercising @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as the playful and harmless gender-challenging experimentation they are , conservatives encountered the photographs and promptly lost their minds .
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Candace Owens , one of the right ’ s most consistently bad faith talking heads , retweeted the images and said that society can not “ survive without strong men ” and claimed that a “ steady feminization ” of Western men is weakening our civilization .
The incredibly joyless take implicitly asserts that Styles is not “ strong , ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ incredibly successful , critically acclaimed artist with the confidence to buck gender expectations .
Her broader point about a conspiracy to weaken the west is so blatantly paranoid and unhinged as to be unworthy of honest engagement .
Ben Shapiro , one of the most prominent Republican voices on the internet and a reliable peddler of rubbish , retweeted Owens ’ s abysmal message and said that there is a “ referendum on masculinity ” and that denying it makes you a “ full-on idiot.
” Using such apocalyptic language to talk about @ @ @ @ @ @ @ would have once been the kind of thing that got one roundly mocked and dismissed as an unserious thinker , but the conservative movement has become so infected with conspiratorial thinking that it ’ s now commonplace .
Shapiro was apparently so incensed at the photos that he unleashed a lengthy Twitter thread on the topic to rant about “ masculinity and feminity.
” The great irony is that the diminutive , reedy-voiced Shapiro is the furthest thing from the Conan the Barbarian parody version of masculinity he advocates .
If this is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ less time whining about other men online and more time at the gym .
Predictably , Twitter was quick to swarm Shapiro with some well-deserved ridicule .
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While they certainly don’t deserve your sympathy because of it, it must be truly exhausting being a conservative sometimes. Not only do you have to come up with increasingly absurd ways to defend the truly indefensible behavior of Donald Trump, you have to constantly feign outrage over the most inane cultural issues. The latest target of this collective Republican ire is pop superstar Harry Styles.
In a new issue of Vogue, Styles boldly posed in high-fashion sartorial creations including a frilly dress. Rather than simply ignoring the photographs or perhaps exercising the good artistic sense to see them as the playful and harmless gender-challenging experimentation they are, conservatives encountered the photographs and promptly lost their minds.
Add your name to tell Trump: You Lost! Concede!
Candace Owens, one of the right’s most consistently bad faith talking heads, retweeted the images and said that society cannot “survive without strong men” and claimed that a “steady feminization” of Western men is weakening our civilization. The incredibly joyless take implicitly asserts that Styles is not “strong,” a ridiculous thing to say about an incredibly successful, critically acclaimed artist with the confidence to buck gender expectations. Her broader point about a conspiracy to weaken the west is so blatantly paranoid and unhinged as to be unworthy of honest engagement.
There is no society that can survive without strong men. The East knows this. In the west, the steady feminization of our men at the same time that Marxism is being taught to our children is not a coincidence.
It is an outright attack. Bring back manly men. https://t.co/sY4IJF7VkK — Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) November 14, 2020
Ben Shapiro, one of the most prominent Republican voices on the internet and a reliable peddler of rubbish, retweeted Owens’s abysmal message and said that there is a “referendum on masculinity” and that denying it makes you a “full-on idiot.”
Using such apocalyptic language to talk about a few photographs in a fashion magazine would have once been the kind of thing that got one roundly mocked and dismissed as an unserious thinker, but the conservative movement has become so infected with conspiratorial thinking that it’s now commonplace.
Shapiro was apparently so incensed at the photos that he unleashed a lengthy Twitter thread on the topic to rant about “masculinity and feminity.” The great irony is that the diminutive, reedy-voiced Shapiro is the furthest thing from the Conan the Barbarian parody version of masculinity he advocates. If this is what he truly believes he should spend less time whining about other men online and more time at the gym.
This is perfectly obvious. Anyone who pretends that it is not a referendum on masculinity for men to don floofy dresses is treating you as a full-on idiot. https://t.co/cioUNBh4bi — Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) November 16, 2020
Masculinity and femininity exist. Outward indicators of masculinity and femininity exist in nearly every human culture. Boys are taught to be more masculine in virtually every human culture because the role of men is not always the same as the role of women. — Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) November 16, 2020
The Left knows this, of course. The POINT of Styles doing this photo shoot is to feminize masculinity. Otherwise why would it be headline-worthy for Styles to don a dress? — Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) November 16, 2020
The Left knows this; they openly say that gender is both important and socially constructed (which is why they tell you that a man can be a woman, e.g., despite no biological underpinning). — Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) November 16, 2020
Predictably, Twitter was quick to swarm Shapiro with some well-deserved ridicule.
I’ll give Candace Owens and Ben Shapiro editorial rights to Vogue in exchange for DC statehood and four Senators for Queens. — Waleed Shahid (@_waleedshahid) November 16, 2020
God I love when everyone collectively shits on Ben Shapiro I’ve never seen a person be more of universal joke than that sad little moron lolllll — Christine Sydelko (@csydelko) November 16, 2020
This is the guy. This is the guy seeing himself as an authority on masculinity. pic.twitter.com/cryJd1cyMP — Hansson Ⓥ (@hansson_mm) November 16, 2020
i wanna see ben shapiro squat 315 or he has to shut up forever — kelbin (@pissboymcgee) November 16, 2020
BREAKING: People who adore man who dyes face and hair condemn man who wears dress.#CandaceOwens #Benshapiro #HarryStyles #DonaldTrump — Rev. Michael Coren (@michaelcoren) November 16, 2020
Weeks after revealing he has never encountered a sexually aroused woman, Ben Shapiro has thoughts on masculinity. https://t.co/0gkNBDFqKt — The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) November 16, 2020
Ben Shapiro is 5'4" but lists his height at 5'9". That makes two places where Ben Shapiro wishes he had five more inches. — Steve Hofstetter (@SteveHofstetter) November 16, 2020
Dear Ben Shapiro Fuck off Sincerely
A man who looks DAMN good in a dress — Dom Noble (@Dominic__Noble) November 16, 2020
ben you're 5'3, can't grow facial hair and weigh 100lbs soaking wet. if we can both be considered men, you should probably be a bit more open minded about gender expressions. it's clearly not as rigid a binary as you try to imply it is. https://t.co/K4lxYuByTa — hasanabi (@hasanthehun) November 16, 2020
Since Ben Shapiro is trending, I want to remind everyone of that time he rage quitted a BBC interview. pic.twitter.com/ZhbBwS3pGE — Coping MAGA (@CopingMAGA) November 16, 2020
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occupydemocrats--2020-11-16--Ivanka reveals her father’s disturbing timeline for his partnership with Moderna vaccine development

After the biotechnology company Moderna became the second pharmaceutical firm in recent weeks to announce promising initial results from its clinical trials of a COVID-19 vaccine , the Trump administration was quick to claim credit for the success of the development effort .
Unlike the vaccine developed by Pfizer which announced its preliminary positive evaluation of over 90 % efficacy just days after election day , the Moderna drug was part of the administration ’ s Operation Warp Speed rapid response effort .
Donald Trump was heavily criticized when he tried to take credit for the Pfizer vaccine despite the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Operation Warp Speed , citing the U.S. government ’ s advance commitment to buy nearly $ 2 billion worth of the company ’ s product as his rationale .
While the new Modern vaccine was developed through the Trump administration ’ s program , many questions were raised today when the president ’ s daughter revealed an interesting timeline of her father ’ s initial discussions with the company in a self-congratulatory tweet for the news of the vaccine ’ s reported success .
Add your name to tell Trump : You Lost @ @ @ @ @ @ @ gives for the initiation of the relationship that she describes as a partnership between her father and the biotechnology company was a full week before the first case of COVID-19 was detected in the United States , and 10 days ahead of Donald Trump ’ s anti-prophetic claim that the threat from the coronavirus was “ totally under control.
” If Ivanka ’ s chronology is true , the fact that the president was already making deals for a vaccine before acknowledging the magnitude of the danger that the outbreak could reach seemingly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ journalist Bob Woodward in his book Rage — that Trump knew of the potential severity of the coming pandemic and did nothing to properly inform the public of its dangers , much less begin developing an effective strategy to combat it .
Instead , Trump continued to downplay the risks of the virus and reportedly only informed his select allies and wealthy supporters in private briefings of the coming risk , many of whom profited handsomely from their advance knowledge of the economic challenges and opportunities that the outbreak would bring .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ president ’ s daughter were not lost on those who read her post on Twitter , and they wasted no time in letting her know what they thought of her and her father ’ s apparent deceptions in regards to the virus .
Whether Ivanka ’ s boasting “ Fact Check ” was an inadvertent disclosure of conspicuous evidence of a conspiracy in a profiteering opportunity or a wrong-headed attempt at stolen valor in the battle against the pandemic will require some serious investigation by a congressional committee or a special counsel team @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it ’ s best if the First Daughter avoided any involvement in trying to rehabilitate her dad ’ s horrendous reputation as the man who launched 11.2 million COVID-19 cases and counting in this country and presided over the worst outbreak in the world .
He ’ s already lost the election and doesn ’ t need any more incriminating evidence of his dereliction of duty being revealed just as his immunity from prosecution is about to expire .
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After the biotechnology company Moderna became the second pharmaceutical firm in recent weeks to announce promising initial results from its clinical trials of a COVID-19 vaccine, the Trump administration was quick to claim credit for the success of the development effort.
Unlike the vaccine developed by Pfizer which announced its preliminary positive evaluation of over 90% efficacy just days after election day, the Moderna drug was part of the administration’s Operation Warp Speed rapid response effort.
Donald Trump was heavily criticized when he tried to take credit for the Pfizer vaccine despite the fact that it was developed independently of Operation Warp Speed, citing the U.S. government’s advance commitment to buy nearly $2 billion worth of the company’s product as his rationale.
While the new Modern vaccine was developed through the Trump administration’s program, many questions were raised today when the president’s daughter revealed an interesting timeline of her father’s initial discussions with the company in a self-congratulatory tweet for the news of the vaccine’s reported success.
https://twitter.com/IvankaTrump/status/1328324970854948866?s=20
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The date that Ivanka gives for the initiation of the relationship that she describes as a partnership between her father and the biotechnology company was a full week before the first case of COVID-19 was detected in the United States, and 10 days ahead of Donald Trump’s anti-prophetic claim that the threat from the coronavirus was “totally under control.”
If Ivanka’s chronology is true, the fact that the president was already making deals for a vaccine before acknowledging the magnitude of the danger that the outbreak could reach seemingly confirms the accusations — made by renowned journalist Bob Woodward in his book Rage — that Trump knew of the potential severity of the coming pandemic and did nothing to properly inform the public of its dangers, much less begin developing an effective strategy to combat it.
Instead, Trump continued to downplay the risks of the virus and reportedly only informed his select allies and wealthy supporters in private briefings of the coming risk, many of whom profited handsomely from their advance knowledge of the economic challenges and opportunities that the outbreak would bring.
The implications of the timeline revealed by the president’s daughter were not lost on those who read her post on Twitter, and they wasted no time in letting her know what they thought of her and her father’s apparent deceptions in regards to the virus.
Exactly! Trump lied to all Americans. Primary credit for the Moderna vaccine goes to Dr. Fauci. Trump has done everything to discredit and silence Fauci, which led to putting Fauci’s life at risk with death threats. https://t.co/LitFIzEE0V — The Voda Foundation (@Voda_Foundation) November 16, 2020
Great, but how’s that @Kodak vaccine coming along? — Donald's Pandemic (@MustweSuffer) November 16, 2020
I love facts! — Kathleen Zurcher (@KAZurcher) November 16, 2020
According to his daughter, it appears donald "partnered" with a company to work on a covid-19 vaccine in January 2020.
Which is after he began receiving intelligence reports about the extremely lethal threat covid-19 posed to the world… https://t.co/bFELBAYD5d — Chris Vickery (@VickerySec) November 16, 2020
Possibly the kind of partnership where he might benefit from allowing excessive spread of the virus in order to prime the pump for vaccine sales later on? Desperate people, and their governments, will always be more willing to pay top dollar, eh? I'd love to know. — Chris Vickery (@VickerySec) November 16, 2020
Another thread…. ps. Scott Gottlieb is a #Koch appointee, a member of AEI, American Enterprise Inst. #RightWing #Koch affiliated think tank https://t.co/KNid08pTO2 — Helen _#ElectionDefender_ 5calls.org (@Cruellaisdevine) November 16, 2020
Why am I not f*cking surprised. They’ve all got their dirty fingers in the pie. — SpāceResists (@SpaceResists) November 16, 2020
Whether Ivanka’s boasting “Fact Check” was an inadvertent disclosure of conspicuous evidence of a conspiracy in a profiteering opportunity or a wrong-headed attempt at stolen valor in the battle against the pandemic will require some serious investigation by a congressional committee or a special counsel team to determine.
Either way, perhaps it’s best if the First Daughter avoided any involvement in trying to rehabilitate her dad’s horrendous reputation as the man who launched 11.2 million COVID-19 cases and counting in this country and presided over the worst outbreak in the world.
He’s already lost the election and doesn’t need any more incriminating evidence of his dereliction of duty being revealed just as his immunity from prosecution is about to expire.
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occupydemocrats--2020-11-16--Danger looms as Trump team refuses to share pandemic info with Biden team

President Trump still refuses to concede .
There is no doubt now that Joe Biden defeated him by a truly impressive margin and yet the president insists that the election was rigged , unable or unwilling to accept that the American people have fired him .
And while his concession is ultimately just a formality and he will be forced to vacate the White House come Inauguration Day , his unwillingness to accept his loss is starting to inflict real damage on the country .
Joe Lockhart , a former White House Press Secretary for President Bill Clinton , tweeted @ @ @ @ @ @ @ administration was confronted today about why they aren ’ t sharing COVID-19 response information with the incoming Biden team .
Rather than disputing that Biden won as they have been for weeks , the Trump team essentially answered “ why should we ?
” The assertion that they have no obligation to share such critical information with the new administration is the final proof that the Trump administration simply does not care about the pandemic .
Add your name to tell Trump : You Lost !
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CBS ’ s Weijia Jian @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Press Secretary Brian Morgenstern said the pandemic team has no reason to meet with Biden ’ s people because their plan is to institute “ devastating and counterproductive lockdowns and an unconstitutional mask mandate ” and that the rest of their plan is “ plagiarized from the Trump administration.
” For Republicans , even the coronavirus has become a partisan issue .
This president has botched the federal response to COVID-19 since day one and now that we are finally set to have a leader who will take the virus seriously Trump and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ spite .
They don ’ t care if it results in more dead Americans , Trump simply hates that Biden beat him and wants to throw up as many roadblocks to a successful tenure as possible .
It ’ s not only negligent , it ’ s actively evil .
Trump will soon be gone from the White House , but the harm he has done to this country could take decades to undo .

President Trump still refuses to concede. There is no doubt now that Joe Biden defeated him by a truly impressive margin and yet the president insists that the election was rigged, unable or unwilling to accept that the American people have fired him. And while his concession is ultimately just a formality and he will be forced to vacate the White House come Inauguration Day, his unwillingness to accept his loss is starting to inflict real damage on the country.
Joe Lockhart, a former White House Press Secretary for President Bill Clinton, tweeted to inform his followers that the Trump administration was confronted today about why they aren’t sharing COVID-19 response information with the incoming Biden team. Rather than disputing that Biden won as they have been for weeks, the Trump team essentially answered “why should we?”
The assertion that they have no obligation to share such critical information with the new administration is the final proof that the Trump administration simply does not care about the pandemic.
Add your name to tell Trump: You Lost! Concede!
CBS’s Weijia Jian reported that Deputy Comms Director & Deputy Press Secretary Brian Morgenstern said the pandemic team has no reason to meet with Biden’s people because their plan is to institute “devastating and counterproductive lockdowns and an unconstitutional mask mandate” and that the rest of their plan is “plagiarized from the Trump administration.” For Republicans, even the coronavirus has become a partisan issue.
This president has botched the federal response to COVID-19 since day one and now that we are finally set to have a leader who will take the virus seriously Trump and his cronies are sabotaging him out of spite. They don’t care if it results in more dead Americans, Trump simply hates that Biden beat him and wants to throw up as many roadblocks to a successful tenure as possible. It’s not only negligent, it’s actively evil. Trump will soon be gone from the White House, but the harm he has done to this country could take decades to undo.
When the WH was asked this morning why they weren’t sharing Covid response info with the Biden team their answer was why should we. Not disputing Biden won, just saying they were under no obligation to help them. Let that sink in. — Joe Lockhart (@joelockhart) November 16, 2020
NEW: No current plans for WH COVID-19 task force to meet w/ Biden team.@BMorgenstern45 to me: “Respectfully, meet about what? Their plan, aside from devastating and counterproductive lockdowns and an unconstitutional mask mandate, was plagiarized from the Trump Administration.” — Weijia Jiang (@weijia) November 16, 2020
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occupydemocrats--2020-11-16--Trump floods Twitter with disputed claims of election fraud as his legal challenges collapse

As the United States enters the 10th day since major media organizations called the presidential election for Joe Biden , Donald Trump continues to hold the nation ’ s democracy hostage with his refusal to recognize the outcome of the voting tallies in key swing states .
After posting a tweet on Sunday that led some people to believe that he may finally be acknowledging the reality of Biden ’ s victory , Trump has retreated further into his denialism , posting a flood of over 35 tweets and retweets since Sunday evening many of which were labeled by Twitter @ @ @ @ @ @ @ election fraud or reminding readers that “ Official sources called this election differently ” than how the president is trying to portray the results .
Trump ’ s last tweet of Sunday evening is the perfect example of his stubborn inability to accept the reality of his defeat , couched in the simple language of a petulant child who still believes that they can bend reality to their wishes by merely shouting their vision of how things should be according to their own desires .
As you might imagine , the comments section @ @ @ @ @ @ @ responses ridiculing the president for his departure from this universe into some alternate parallel world where the votes added up differently .
As his legal challenges to the vote tallies in various state collapse around him and attorneys resign from the fruitless attempt to prove non-existent voter fraud in order to preserve their legal reputations , Trump ignored the clear signs that nobody in a position to change the margins of Biden ’ s victory was buying his vociferous complaints of a stolen election and posted tweet after tweet that continued to push @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a sampling of his desperate flurry of morning posts advancing his arguments that have been repeatedly discredited by both state election officials and by his administration ’ s own Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency .
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Attacks on the credibility of the media reporting on the failures of his legal team to produce a shred of evidence backing up their claims of voter fraud are a standard part of Trump ’ s disinformation campaign .
He followed up this tweet with a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , perhaps to give equal time to his two major national newspaper antagonists .
In his next tweet , Trump continued to focus on ballots counted by an electronic voting machine made by a company called Dominion , casting aspersions on the political affiliations of someone on the board of the company that developed the software for the devices .
Trump liked this tweet so much that he quote tweeted it again just a minute later with the comment “ This is crazy !
” before posting another tweet from the same unidentified @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a slave-owning Confederate general as its handle .
It seems as if the president is scrolling through the right-wing ranks of the social media platform to find any positive posts from anyone who still supports him as he retweeted post after post from people without the blue checks indicating a verified identity on Twitter .
When he wasn ’ t posting about his frivolous claims of election fraud , Trump was inciting his supporters and police to violence in posts about the “ Million MAGA March ” that actually attracted about a hundredth @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this weekend .
He also reposted a truncated video of a supporter being punched by counter-protestors that failed to include the moments before the punch that showed the supposed victim instigating the violence and attacking women before he was fought off in retaliation .
He also retweeted a doctored photo of the crowds at the march that was thoroughly discredited on social media yesterday by the publication of the undoctored original photo showing that bodies had simply been pasted into the picture to make the crowds seem larger than they actually were .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ and a few retweets of Rudy Giuliani ’ s bogus election fraud claims , Trump returned to where he left off at the end of last night , tweeting “ I won the Election !
” yet again .
Perhaps he is marginally less convinced of that when he posted it this morning since he didn ’ t switch to all caps mode this time .
The rest of Trump ’ s morning Twitter output consisted of tiresome rehashes of his discredited fraud claims , but one post indicated that Trump still hasn @ @ @ @ @ @ @ his own mind .
If ever a tweet encapsulated Trump ’ s penchant for projection , this is the one .
Republicans have been packing the courts with Heritage Foundation-approved , right-wing extremist jurists since the beginning of Trump ’ s term and spent the last years of the Obama administration blocking as many of his appointees as possible .
The only reason to accuse the Democrats of planning to pack the courts — a perfectly legitimate response to the GOP ’ s underhanded and hypocritical tactics in regards to the judicial branch @ @ @ @ @ @ @ his supporters and divide the nation .
Exactly how “ we ” will prevent the new administration from pursuing its own judicial policies is something that Trump never addresses , but the fact that he is still claiming some agency in the matter when the reins of power will be ripped from his hands in January indicates that his acceptance of the election results won ’ t be happening anytime soon .
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As the United States enters the 10th day since major media organizations called the presidential election for Joe Biden, Donald Trump continues to hold the nation’s democracy hostage with his refusal to recognize the outcome of the voting tallies in key swing states.
After posting a tweet on Sunday that led some people to believe that he may finally be acknowledging the reality of Biden’s victory, Trump has retreated further into his denialism, posting a flood of over 35 tweets and retweets since Sunday evening many of which were labeled by Twitter as containing “disputed” claims about election fraud or reminding readers that “Official sources called this election differently” than how the president is trying to portray the results.
Trump’s last tweet of Sunday evening is the perfect example of his stubborn inability to accept the reality of his defeat, couched in the simple language of a petulant child who still believes that they can bend reality to their wishes by merely shouting their vision of how things should be according to their own desires.
I WON THE ELECTION! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 16, 2020
As you might imagine, the comments section on that post garnered quite a few responses ridiculing the president for his departure from this universe into some alternate parallel world where the votes added up differently.
As his legal challenges to the vote tallies in various state collapse around him and attorneys resign from the fruitless attempt to prove non-existent voter fraud in order to preserve their legal reputations, Trump ignored the clear signs that nobody in a position to change the margins of Biden’s victory was buying his vociferous complaints of a stolen election and posted tweet after tweet that continued to push his outlandish conspiracy theories.
Here is a sampling of his desperate flurry of morning posts advancing his arguments that have been repeatedly discredited by both state election officials and by his administration’s own Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
The Washington Post forgot to read the complaint. Fake News. Poll Watchers, and the way they were treated, are a very big deal in the complaint! https://t.co/Rhc4RY0QSF — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 16, 2020
Add your name to tell Trump: You Lost! Concede!
Attacks on the credibility of the media reporting on the failures of his legal team to produce a shred of evidence backing up their claims of voter fraud are a standard part of Trump’s disinformation campaign. He followed up this tweet with a retweet that targeted The New York Times, perhaps to give equal time to his two major national newspaper antagonists.
In his next tweet, Trump continued to focus on ballots counted by an electronic voting machine made by a company called Dominion, casting aspersions on the political affiliations of someone on the board of the company that developed the software for the devices.
Trump liked this tweet so much that he quote tweeted it again just a minute later with the comment “This is crazy!” before posting another tweet from the same unidentified Twitter account that used the name of a slave-owning Confederate general as its handle.
Most fraudulent Election in history! https://t.co/X2pRkTqWIS — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 16, 2020
It seems as if the president is scrolling through the right-wing ranks of the social media platform to find any positive posts from anyone who still supports him as he retweeted post after post from people without the blue checks indicating a verified identity on Twitter.
When he wasn’t posting about his frivolous claims of election fraud, Trump was inciting his supporters and police to violence in posts about the “Million MAGA March” that actually attracted about a hundredth of that promised total to Washington DC this weekend.
ANTIFA SCUM ran for the hills today when they tried attacking the people at the Trump Rally, because those people aggressively fought back. Antifa waited until tonight, when 99% were gone, to attack innocent #MAGA People. DC Police, get going — do your job and don’t hold back!!! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 15, 2020
He also reposted a truncated video of a supporter being punched by counter-protestors that failed to include the moments before the punch that showed the supposed victim instigating the violence and attacking women before he was fought off in retaliation.
He also retweeted a doctored photo of the crowds at the march that was thoroughly discredited on social media yesterday by the publication of the undoctored original photo showing that bodies had simply been pasted into the picture to make the crowds seem larger than they actually were.
The Million MAGA March happened today. Nothing was burned, looted, and no one was shot or killed. Tell us again about your peaceful protests…. pic.twitter.com/HJls5r6xrt — Andrew Pollack (@AndrewPollackFL) November 15, 2020
After a bunch more MAGA March posts and a few retweets of Rudy Giuliani’s bogus election fraud claims, Trump returned to where he left off at the end of last night, tweeting “I won the Election!” yet again. Perhaps he is marginally less convinced of that when he posted it this morning since he didn’t switch to all caps mode this time.
The rest of Trump’s morning Twitter output consisted of tiresome rehashes of his discredited fraud claims, but one post indicated that Trump still hasn’t left the campaign trail in his own mind.
They will PACK THE COURTS. We won’t let that happen! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 16, 2020
If ever a tweet encapsulated Trump’s penchant for projection, this is the one.
Republicans have been packing the courts with Heritage Foundation-approved, right-wing extremist jurists since the beginning of Trump’s term and spent the last years of the Obama administration blocking as many of his appointees as possible.
The only reason to accuse the Democrats of planning to pack the courts — a perfectly legitimate response to the GOP’s underhanded and hypocritical tactics in regards to the judicial branch of government — is to further inflame his supporters and divide the nation.
Exactly how “we” will prevent the new administration from pursuing its own judicial policies is something that Trump never addresses, but the fact that he is still claiming some agency in the matter when the reins of power will be ripped from his hands in January indicates that his acceptance of the election results won’t be happening anytime soon.
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occupydemocrats--2020-11-16--Donald Trump Jr. gets owned by pollster Nate Silver in brutally funny Twitter skirmish

Like his father , Donald Trump Jr. has absolutely no sense of when it would be better to simply keep his mouth shut rather than suffer the consequences of the idiocy that pours forth from that font of deception and stupidity .
Junior could have held his tongue when he saw this tweet from noted political and sports pollster Nate Silver , a man who has been one of the most credible voices among those surveying public opinion in this election through his website FiveThirtyEight.com .
Responding to MSNBC ’ s Chris Hayes , Silver , using his typical reliance @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the idea that the polls in the 2020 elections were disastrously wrong when the election turned out to be closer than anticipated .
The fact of the matter is that outside of badly missing the call in Florida and a few other states , the ultimate result of the ballot counting produced exactly the result that the pollsters predicted : a victory for Democrat Joe Biden .
Don Jr. couldn ’ t resist responding to Silver ’ s factual analysis of the numerical accuracy of this year ’ s poll results with a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the ability to simply ignore inconvenient facts , particularly when it comes to mathematics , a trait that seemingly has some genetic basis .
Perhaps Don Jr. wasn ’ t ready for the ready wit of the current dean of American political polling , who demolished the president ’ s eldest son with one simple sentence .
In a nod to the Netflix hit , The Queen ’ s Gambit , one can only comment “ check ” and “ mate ” to that riposte .
Perhaps next time , Don Jr. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a step or two in advance while contemplating whether he should make sarcastic comments to someone who is much better at their job than he is at his .
After all , once his father becomes a civilian again , Don Jr. and Eric will have to hand the reins of the Trump Organization back to their father…at least until any potential prison sentence begins , and only then if they are not going to be joining him themselves .
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Like his father, Donald Trump Jr. has absolutely no sense of when it would be better to simply keep his mouth shut rather than suffer the consequences of the idiocy that pours forth from that font of deception and stupidity.
Junior could have held his tongue when he saw this tweet from noted political and sports pollster Nate Silver, a man who has been one of the most credible voices among those surveying public opinion in this election through his website FiveThirtyEight.com.
There's not actually much evidence that polls are becoming less accurate. They had perhaps their best year ever in 2018. 2016 and 2020 polling errors were slightly worse than average but within a fairly normal range. — Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) November 10, 2020
Responding to MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, Silver, using his typical reliance on data analysis, was arguing against the idea that the polls in the 2020 elections were disastrously wrong when the election turned out to be closer than anticipated.
The fact of the matter is that outside of badly missing the call in Florida and a few other states, the ultimate result of the ballot counting produced exactly the result that the pollsters predicted: a victory for Democrat Joe Biden.
Don Jr. couldn’t resist responding to Silver’s factual analysis of the numerical accuracy of this year’s poll results with a snarky comment.
We understand you’re trying to salvage a very lucrative career in polling punditry but it’s getting ridiculous. https://t.co/V6hXNyUNRk — Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) November 15, 2020
Junior seems well versed in the ability to simply ignore inconvenient facts, particularly when it comes to mathematics, a trait that seemingly has some genetic basis.
Perhaps Don Jr. wasn’t ready for the ready wit of the current dean of American political polling, who demolished the president’s eldest son with one simple sentence.
I'll still have a job on January 21st, though. — Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) November 15, 2020
In a nod to the Netflix hit, The Queen’s Gambit, one can only comment “check” and “mate” to that riposte.
Perhaps next time, Don Jr. will think ahead and plan his moves a step or two in advance while contemplating whether he should make sarcastic comments to someone who is much better at their job than he is at his.
After all, once his father becomes a civilian again, Don Jr. and Eric will have to hand the reins of the Trump Organization back to their father…at least until any potential prison sentence begins, and only then if they are not going to be joining him themselves.
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occupydemocrats--2020-11-15--Full circle — Trump’s presidency is ending with the same obvious lie that it began with

For all the chaos of the Donald Trump administration , it appears that a least a bit of symmetry will mark the end of his presidency .
To appreciate the full circle that the 45th president has traveled in his nearly four years in office , one must recall one of the first major events of his nascent term the very first day after his inauguration .
In what became an early warning sign that this new president was not going to let himself be bound by reality or truth , Trump had his then-press secretary Sean Spicer publicly claim @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to ever witness an inauguration , period , both in person and around the globe.
” It was a lie so enormous and so easily contradicted by a comparison of photos of the crowd sizes at Trump ’ s swearing-in and that of Barack Obama at his initial 2008 inaugural that White House senior advisor Kellyanne Conway was forced to invent the term “ alternative facts ” to describe the false claim in a manner that set the tone for the next four years of the putrid , self-aggrandizing horse manure that passed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ term .
Add your name to tell Trump : You Lost !
Concede !
Now , a day after a supposed Million MAGA march that was estimated by city officials to have attracted considerably less than a tenth of that number , Trump ’ s latest Hatch Act-violating press secretary , Kayleigh McEnany , was trying to emulate Sean Spicer ’ s original sin of Trump administration falsehoods by vastly exaggerating the number of the president ’ s supporters who came to Washington DC to protest the results of a legitimate election , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ t bring himself to accept .
At this point , no one with any sense expects to hear a word of truth from the mouth of someone dubbed “ Kay-lie ” McEnany due to her dubious connection with any form of facts whatsoever , but the lengths to which the Trump campaign team went to in order to make the attendance at the march seem bigger than it actually was raised many an eyebrow on social media .
The highly colorized photo on the left in the above images was Tweeted out @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Bongino , but the source of the addition of the extra crowd in the apparently doctored photo is unknown .
They say that you can ’ t teach an old dog new tricks , but the fact that Trump is ending his presidency in exactly the same way that he began it — with an ego-driven lie about his own popularity — proves that this president has learned absolutely nothing from his time in office .
Luckily enough of the voting population did learn something from the last four years — that Donald @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the president — and have now sent him packing .
Now if only he would pull up the moving trucks and begin his departure !
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For all the chaos of the Donald Trump administration, it appears that a least a bit of symmetry will mark the end of his presidency.
To appreciate the full circle that the 45th president has traveled in his nearly four years in office, one must recall one of the first major events of his nascent term the very first day after his inauguration.
In what became an early warning sign that this new president was not going to let himself be bound by reality or truth, Trump had his then-press secretary Sean Spicer publicly claim that “this was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period, both in person and around the globe.”
It was a lie so enormous and so easily contradicted by a comparison of photos of the crowd sizes at Trump’s swearing-in and that of Barack Obama at his initial 2008 inaugural that White House senior advisor Kellyanne Conway was forced to invent the term “alternative facts” to describe the false claim in a manner that set the tone for the next four years of the putrid, self-aggrandizing horse manure that passed for the presidential communications policy during his term.
Add your name to tell Trump: You Lost! Concede!
Now, a day after a supposed Million MAGA march that was estimated by city officials to have attracted considerably less than a tenth of that number, Trump’s latest Hatch Act-violating press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, was trying to emulate Sean Spicer’s original sin of Trump administration falsehoods by vastly exaggerating the number of the president’s supporters who came to Washington DC to protest the results of a legitimate election, the results of which Donald Trump can’t bring himself to accept.
https://twitter.com/kayleighmcenany/status/1327646530103369728?s=20
At this point, no one with any sense expects to hear a word of truth from the mouth of someone dubbed “Kay-lie” McEnany due to her dubious connection with any form of facts whatsoever, but the lengths to which the Trump campaign team went to in order to make the attendance at the march seem bigger than it actually was raised many an eyebrow on social media.
https://twitter.com/Chris_McCann19/status/1328105739500613632?s=20
The highly colorized photo on the left in the above images was Tweeted out earlier by another administration lackey, Dan Bongino, but the source of the addition of the extra crowd in the apparently doctored photo is unknown.
They say that you can’t teach an old dog new tricks, but the fact that Trump is ending his presidency in exactly the same way that he began it — with an ego-driven lie about his own popularity — proves that this president has learned absolutely nothing from his time in office.
Luckily enough of the voting population did learn something from the last four years — that Donald Trump is unfit for the office of the president — and have now sent him packing.
Now if only he would pull up the moving trucks and begin his departure!
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occupydemocrats--2020-11-15--Donald Trump seems to concede then quickly backtracks in wild Sunday morning Twitter posts

Nearly two weeks have gone by since election day , and it ’ s been a week since every major media outlet did the math and called the election for the Democratic candidate , Joe Biden .
Yet , still , Donald Trump is throwing his social media tantrums over the result that he just can ’ t bring himself to accept — that he ’ s a loser .
A look at the lame-duck president ’ s Twitter feed this morning shows not a man chastened by the repudiation of his miserable four years in office by voters across @ @ @ @ @ @ @ beast still peddling discredited conspiracy theories to explain his humiliating defeat and looking , as usual , for targets other than himself and his loathsome policy agenda to blame for his failure .
Trump began his fault-casting by taking aim at the one news outlet that contributed the most to his original unlikely rise to power in 2016 — Fox News — retweeting a second-hand post originally sent by someone who works for the ultra-right-wing news outlet Newsmax , a company with a vested interest in seeing their competition diminished .
Trump ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ support of media mogul Rupert Murdoch and his multiple news providers , including Fox News , is palpable , and this tweet will do nothing to staunch the rumors that he is looking to launch an even more extremist competitor to the news channel once he finally is dragged kicking and screaming from the Oval Office , perhaps by taking over either Newsmax or its equally extremist conservative streaming news channel OAN .
Add your name to tell Trump : You Lost !
Concede !
The lame-duck president next moved on to moaning @ @ @ @ @ @ @ recount , tagging the state ’ s Republican Governor Brian Kemp for responsibility , in a post that featured the now ubiquitous warning from Twitter ’ s content guardians about the disputed nature of his frivolous claims .
With a palate cleanser of five straight uncommented-upon retweets of posts from a host on the network that he just tried to undermine — Fox News ‘ Jeanine Pirro — Trump proved that he just can ’ t quit his dependence on the network for his epistles of hate and frustration with his quote tweet @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , earning another Twitter opprobrium for the falsity of his claims .
This is perhaps the first time Trump has been able to admit that Biden actually won the election , even if he completely attributes his loss to non-existent deliberate fraud .
He soon realized his mistake and spent the rest of the morning trying to erase the memory of that little sli0p in his denialist armor .
Trump subsequently retweeted another four video clips from the Watter ’ s World program , but not before one more attempt at contradicting even @ @ @ @ @ @ @ officials who called the election “ the most secure in American history.
” Twitter ’ s polite disclaimer is way too mild to describe the depth of the delusions and misinformation being peddled in this tweet , but the usual terms for this type of B.S .
are apparently considered more offensive than the contents of the post in their eyes , a decision that many Americans would surely disagree with .
Trump ’ s morning social media fusillade continued with multiple straight retweets of clips from various Fox News personalities , making @ @ @ @ @ @ @ biting the hand that fed him so well for so long and seemingly continues to do so in his earlier attack on the network that is still proving so useful in his propaganda arsenal .
In the rest of his posts today , Trump did manage to promote an appearance by his deranged attorney Rudy Giuliani on — where else ?
— Fox News and garner two more wrist slaps from Twitter for his phony , ego-soothing claims of election fraud .
Trump ’ s continued refusal to accept the reality of his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ president seem more aptly described as a mortally-wounded-goose presidency at this point .
Having mostly abandoned even the pretense of actually doing the job he was originally elected to perform , Trump seems to be planning on spending the remainder of his term watching TV , playing golf , and reportedly holding a few post-election rallies .
His flailing and failing legal challenges aren ’ t likely to prevent the certification of the election results that gave the same number of electoral votes to Joe Biden that Trump received in 2016 , a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ landslide.
” Once that occurs , Trump ’ s tweets will seem less like the sour-grapes ranting of a sore-loser and more and more like outright sedition .
Perhaps then Twitter will be able to move from simply placing a warning label on his posts to deleting his account entirely .
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Nearly two weeks have gone by since election day, and it’s been a week since every major media outlet did the math and called the election for the Democratic candidate, Joe Biden.
Yet, still, Donald Trump is throwing his social media tantrums over the result that he just can’t bring himself to accept — that he’s a loser.
A look at the lame-duck president’s Twitter feed this morning shows not a man chastened by the repudiation of his miserable four years in office by voters across the country, but a pathetic wounded beast still peddling discredited conspiracy theories to explain his humiliating defeat and looking, as usual, for targets other than himself and his loathsome policy agenda to blame for his failure.
Trump began his fault-casting by taking aim at the one news outlet that contributed the most to his original unlikely rise to power in 2016 — Fox News — retweeting a second-hand post originally sent by someone who works for the ultra-right-wing news outlet Newsmax, a company with a vested interest in seeing their competition diminished.
This is why @FoxNews daytime and weekend daytime have lost their ratings. They are abysmal having @alfredenewman1 (Mayor Pete of Indiana’s most unsuccessful city, by far!) on more than Republicans. Many great alternatives are forming & exist. Try @OANN & @newsmax, among others! https://t.co/ewHE8GBRNy — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 15, 2020
Trump’s anger at having lost the unquestioning support of media mogul Rupert Murdoch and his multiple news providers, including Fox News, is palpable, and this tweet will do nothing to staunch the rumors that he is looking to launch an even more extremist competitor to the news channel once he finally is dragged kicking and screaming from the Oval Office, perhaps by taking over either Newsmax or its equally extremist conservative streaming news channel OAN.
Add your name to tell Trump: You Lost! Concede!
The lame-duck president next moved on to moaning about the unfairness of the Georgia ballot recount, tagging the state’s Republican Governor Brian Kemp for responsibility, in a post that featured the now ubiquitous warning from Twitter’s content guardians about the disputed nature of his frivolous claims.
Doing a great job in Georgia. Their recount is a scam, means nothing. Must see fraudulent signatures which is prohibited by stupidly signed & unconstitutional consent decree. @BrianKempGA https://t.co/UtEp3FN22S — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 15, 2020
With a palate cleanser of five straight uncommented-upon retweets of posts from a host on the network that he just tried to undermine — Fox News‘ Jeanine Pirro — Trump proved that he just can’t quit his dependence on the network for his epistles of hate and frustration with his quote tweet of another Fox host, Jesse Watters, earning another Twitter opprobrium for the falsity of his claims.
He won because the Election was Rigged. NO VOTE WATCHERS OR OBSERVERS allowed, vote tabulated by a Radical Left privately owned company, Dominion, with a bad reputation & bum equipment that couldn’t even qualify for Texas (which I won by a lot!), the Fake & Silent Media, & more! https://t.co/Exb3C1mAPg — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 15, 2020
This is perhaps the first time Trump has been able to admit that Biden actually won the election, even if he completely attributes his loss to non-existent deliberate fraud. He soon realized his mistake and spent the rest of the morning trying to erase the memory of that little sli0p in his denialist armor.
Trump subsequently retweeted another four video clips from the Watter’s World program, but not before one more attempt at contradicting even his own Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency officials who called the election “the most secure in American history.”
All of the mechanical “glitches” that took place on Election Night were really THEM getting caught trying to steal votes. They succeeded plenty, however, without getting caught. Mail-in elections are a sick joke! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 15, 2020
Twitter’s polite disclaimer is way too mild to describe the depth of the delusions and misinformation being peddled in this tweet, but the usual terms for this type of B.S. are apparently considered more offensive than the contents of the post in their eyes, a decision that many Americans would surely disagree with.
Trump’s morning social media fusillade continued with multiple straight retweets of clips from various Fox News personalities, making one wonder why the president had been biting the hand that fed him so well for so long and seemingly continues to do so in his earlier attack on the network that is still proving so useful in his propaganda arsenal.
In the rest of his posts today, Trump did manage to promote an appearance by his deranged attorney Rudy Giuliani on — where else? — Fox News and garner two more wrist slaps from Twitter for his phony, ego-soothing claims of election fraud.
RIGGED ELECTION. WE WILL WIN! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 15, 2020
He only won in the eyes of the FAKE NEWS MEDIA. I concede NOTHING! We have a long way to go. This was a RIGGED ELECTION! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 15, 2020
Trump’s continued refusal to accept the reality of his loss makes his status as a lame-duck president seem more aptly described as a mortally-wounded-goose presidency at this point.
Having mostly abandoned even the pretense of actually doing the job he was originally elected to perform, Trump seems to be planning on spending the remainder of his term watching TV, playing golf, and reportedly holding a few post-election rallies.
His flailing and failing legal challenges aren’t likely to prevent the certification of the election results that gave the same number of electoral votes to Joe Biden that Trump received in 2016, a result that he then called a “landslide.”
Once that occurs, Trump’s tweets will seem less like the sour-grapes ranting of a sore-loser and more and more like outright sedition.
Perhaps then Twitter will be able to move from simply placing a warning label on his posts to deleting his account entirely.
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occupydemocrats--2020-11-15--Ivanka Trump rants about leftist violence against DC MAGA marchers and gets schooled by Twitter

The Million-Maga March may have attracted only a tiny fraction of the unschooled hordes that its ambitiously-named moniker suggests , but it did manage to generate the kind of violence in the streets of Washington DC that Donald Trump has condemned when similar street fights took place in places like Portland , Oregon , and Seattle , Washington .
YouTube was awash in videos documenting the physical confrontations between the assembled Trump fanatics — including Proud Boys , militia members , and other extremist MAGATs — and demonstrators opposed to the hateful rhetoric and even more hateful behavior being promulgated @ @ @ @ @ @ @ daughter Ivanka Trump took to Twitter to paint the confrontations as an attack on “ conservatives ” despite ample evidence that many of the first blows were struck by the resentful defenders of her father ’ s false claims of a fraudulent election .
Ivanka was likely responding to and echoing Donald Trump ’ s own tweets about the violent encounters in the nation ’ s capital , including one from last night that commented on this brief video snippet of a Trump supporter ’ s savage beating at the hands of a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ BLM rioters ” by its author the right-wing journalist Andy Ngô .
Donald Trump ’ s response was a typical attack on anyone he perceives as being to the left of Adolph Hitler , and was quickly countered by political activist Holly Figueroa O ’ Reilly who attatched a longer clip of the video edited down in the Andy Ngô post forwarded by the president that showed who was really responsible for insitgating the unfortunately violent incident .
Ivanka ’ s defense of her father ’ s followers earned its own barrage of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ultimate source of the most egregiously barbarous actions that took place yesterday .
Hopefully , the complicit First Daughter won ’ t be commanding much attention in the media once her father ’ s clenched fingers are pried from the levers of presidential power .
As an executive in The Trump Organization , Ivanka will soon be drowning in lawsuits along with the rest of her family , something that will thankfully prevent her from spending too much time posting lies on Twitter .
It ’ s one more thing to be grateful @ @ @ @ @ @ @ holiday with much less to celebrate than in previous years .
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The Million-Maga March may have attracted only a tiny fraction of the unschooled hordes that its ambitiously-named moniker suggests, but it did manage to generate the kind of violence in the streets of Washington DC that Donald Trump has condemned when similar street fights took place in places like Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington.
YouTube was awash in videos documenting the physical confrontations between the assembled Trump fanatics — including Proud Boys, militia members, and other extremist MAGATs — and demonstrators opposed to the hateful rhetoric and even more hateful behavior being promulgated by the sore loser contingent.
Violence as "Refuse Fascism" pushed out of "Million MAGA March" https://t.co/aqf8wWF2SF via @YouTube — mike dangelo (@mikeram123) November 15, 2020
My folks claim "the Dems always start the violence. Hmm… Maybe stereotyping millions of Americans wasn't the right call. https://t.co/h8rujCpRsv — Cory Rhoades (@utlexar) November 15, 2020
First daughter Ivanka Trump took to Twitter to paint the confrontations as an attack on “conservatives” despite ample evidence that many of the first blows were struck by the resentful defenders of her father’s false claims of a fraudulent election.
The media’s near total silence about the physical violence being perpetrated against conservatives is shameful & dangerous. Just image the outrage and indignation if this went the other way. Violence is never the answer and instigators must be condemned and prosecuted. — Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) November 15, 2020
Ivanka was likely responding to and echoing Donald Trump’s own tweets about the violent encounters in the nation’s capital, including one from last night that commented on this brief video snippet of a Trump supporter’s savage beating at the hands of a crowd of angry people mischaracterized as “BLM rioters” by its author the right-wing journalist Andy Ngô.
Graphic: A close-up angle of BLM rioters knocking a man unconscious who was leaving the #MillionMAGAMarch in DC earlier today. They also steal his phone when he’s on the ground. Video by @FromKalen. pic.twitter.com/cf7bnkpsCf — Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) November 15, 2020
Donald Trump’s response was a typical attack on anyone he perceives as being to the left of Adolph Hitler, and was quickly countered by political activist Holly Figueroa O’Reilly who attatched a longer clip of the video edited down in the Andy Ngô post forwarded by the president that showed who was really responsible for insitgating the unfortunately violent incident.
Here’s the entire video, you piece of shit. The “victim” assaulted a man exercising free speech, started a brawl, attacked women, and got his ass knocked out. Andy Ngo edited it.
Fuck you.pic.twitter.com/ahopalI85m — Holly Figueroa O'Reilly (@AynRandPaulRyan) November 15, 2020
Ivanka’s defense of her father’s followers earned its own barrage of outrage from Twitter users who knew the ultimate source of the most egregiously barbarous actions that took place yesterday.
https://twitter.com/MindyMH/status/1328052524323131394?s=20
https://twitter.com/raziel_antifa/status/1328056616944545793?s=20
https://twitter.com/ResisterDude/status/1328047496812244992?s=20
So is the near silence about how you treated the workers who make your crappy clothes and handbags in sweatshops — Dump Trump (@DumpTrump) November 15, 2020
With any luck at all they will never work anywhere again except the prison laundry. — Lisa Campodall'Orto (@LisaCampo) November 15, 2020
https://twitter.com/BrendaJJustice7/status/1327985437911216134?s=20
Hopefully, the complicit First Daughter won’t be commanding much attention in the media once her father’s clenched fingers are pried from the levers of presidential power.
As an executive in The Trump Organization, Ivanka will soon be drowning in lawsuits along with the rest of her family, something that will thankfully prevent her from spending too much time posting lies on Twitter.
It’s one more thing to be grateful for as the nation approaches a Thanksgiving holiday with much less to celebrate than in previous years.
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occupydemocrats--2020-11-15--Donald Trump goes postal over the election in Sunday morning tweets

Nearly two weeks have gone by since election day , and it ’ s been a week since every major media outlet did the math and called the election for the Democratic candidate , Joe Biden .
Yet , still , Donald Trump is throwing his social media tantrums over the result that he just can ’ t bring himself to accept — that he ’ s a loser .
A look at the lame-duck president ’ s Twitter feed this morning shows not a man chastened by the repudiation of his miserable four years in office by voters across @ @ @ @ @ @ @ beast still peddling discredited conspiracy theories to explain his humiliating defeat and looking , as usual , for targets other than himself and his loathsome policy agenda to blame for his failure .
Trump began his fault-casting by taking aim at the one news outlet that contributed the most to his original unlikely rise to power in 2016 — Fox News — retweeting a second-hand post originally sent by someone who works for the ultra-right-wing news outlet Newsmax , a company with a vested interest in seeing their competition diminished .
Trump ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ support of media mogul Rupert Murdoch and his multiple news providers , including Fox News , is palpable , and this tweet will do nothing to staunch the rumors that he is looking to launch an even more extremist competitor to the news channel once he finally is dragged kicking and screaming from the Oval Office , perhaps by taking over either Newsmax or its equally extremist conservative streaming news channel OAN .
Add your name to tell Trump : You Lost !
Concede !
The lame-duck president next moved on to moaning @ @ @ @ @ @ @ recount , tagging the state ’ s Republican Governor Brian Kemp for responsibility , in a post that featured the now ubiquitous warning from Twitter ’ s content guardians about the disputed nature of his frivolous claims .
With a palate cleanser of five straight uncommented-upon retweets of posts from a host on the network that he just tried to undermine — Fox News ‘ Jeanine Pirro — Trump proved that he just can ’ t quit his dependence on the network for his epistles of hate and frustration with his quote tweet @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , earning another Twitter opprobrium for the falsity of his claims .
This is perhaps the first time Trump has been able to admit that Biden actually won the election , even if he completely attributes his loss to non-existent deliberate fraud .
Trump subsequently retweeted another four video clips from the Watter ’ s World program , but not before one more attempt at contradicting even his own Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency officials who called the election “ the most secure in American history.
” Twitter ’ s polite disclaimer is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the delusions and misinformation being peddled in this tweet , but the usual terms for this type of B.S .
are apparently considered more offensive than the contents of the post in their eyes , a decision that many Americans would surely disagree with .
Trump ’ s morning social media fusillade continued with multiple straight retweets of clips from various Fox News personalities , making one wonder why the president had been biting the hand that fed him so well for so long and seemingly continues to do so in his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ still proving so useful in his propaganda arsenal .
In the rest of his posts today , Trump did manage to promote an appearance by his deranged attorney Rudy Giuliani on — where else ?
— Fox News and garner two more wrist slaps from Twitter for his phony , ego-soothing claims of election fraud .
Trump ’ s continued refusal to accept the reality of his loss makes his status as a lame-duck president seem more aptly described as a mortally-wounded-goose presidency at this point .
Having mostly abandoned even the pretense @ @ @ @ @ @ @ originally elected to perform , Trump seems to be planning on spending the remainder of his term watching TV , playing golf , and reportedly holding a few post-election rallies .
His flailing and failing legal challenges aren ’ t likely to prevent the certification of the election results that gave the same number of electoral votes to Joe Biden that Trump received in 2016 , a result that he then called a “ landslide.
” Once that occurs , Trump ’ s tweets will seem less like the sour-grapes ranting of a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sedition .
Perhaps then Twitter will be able to move from simply placing a warning label on his posts to deleting his account entirely .
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Nearly two weeks have gone by since election day, and it’s been a week since every major media outlet did the math and called the election for the Democratic candidate, Joe Biden.
Yet, still, Donald Trump is throwing his social media tantrums over the result that he just can’t bring himself to accept — that he’s a loser.
A look at the lame-duck president’s Twitter feed this morning shows not a man chastened by the repudiation of his miserable four years in office by voters across the country, but a pathetic wounded beast still peddling discredited conspiracy theories to explain his humiliating defeat and looking, as usual, for targets other than himself and his loathsome policy agenda to blame for his failure.
Trump began his fault-casting by taking aim at the one news outlet that contributed the most to his original unlikely rise to power in 2016 — Fox News — retweeting a second-hand post originally sent by someone who works for the ultra-right-wing news outlet Newsmax, a company with a vested interest in seeing their competition diminished.
This is why @FoxNews daytime and weekend daytime have lost their ratings. They are abysmal having @alfredenewman1 (Mayor Pete of Indiana’s most unsuccessful city, by far!) on more than Republicans. Many great alternatives are forming & exist. Try @OANN & @newsmax, among others! https://t.co/ewHE8GBRNy — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 15, 2020
Trump’s anger at having lost the unquestioning support of media mogul Rupert Murdoch and his multiple news providers, including Fox News, is palpable, and this tweet will do nothing to staunch the rumors that he is looking to launch an even more extremist competitor to the news channel once he finally is dragged kicking and screaming from the Oval Office, perhaps by taking over either Newsmax or its equally extremist conservative streaming news channel OAN.
Add your name to tell Trump: You Lost! Concede!
The lame-duck president next moved on to moaning about the unfairness of the Georgia ballot recount, tagging the state’s Republican Governor Brian Kemp for responsibility, in a post that featured the now ubiquitous warning from Twitter’s content guardians about the disputed nature of his frivolous claims.
Doing a great job in Georgia. Their recount is a scam, means nothing. Must see fraudulent signatures which is prohibited by stupidly signed & unconstitutional consent decree. @BrianKempGA https://t.co/UtEp3FN22S — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 15, 2020
With a palate cleanser of five straight uncommented-upon retweets of posts from a host on the network that he just tried to undermine — Fox News‘ Jeanine Pirro — Trump proved that he just can’t quit his dependence on the network for his epistles of hate and frustration with his quote tweet of another Fox host, Jesse Watters, earning another Twitter opprobrium for the falsity of his claims.
He won because the Election was Rigged. NO VOTE WATCHERS OR OBSERVERS allowed, vote tabulated by a Radical Left privately owned company, Dominion, with a bad reputation & bum equipment that couldn’t even qualify for Texas (which I won by a lot!), the Fake & Silent Media, & more! https://t.co/Exb3C1mAPg — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 15, 2020
This is perhaps the first time Trump has been able to admit that Biden actually won the election, even if he completely attributes his loss to non-existent deliberate fraud.
Trump subsequently retweeted another four video clips from the Watter’s World program, but not before one more attempt at contradicting even his own Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency officials who called the election “the most secure in American history.”
All of the mechanical “glitches” that took place on Election Night were really THEM getting caught trying to steal votes. They succeeded plenty, however, without getting caught. Mail-in elections are a sick joke! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 15, 2020
Twitter’s polite disclaimer is way too mild to describe the depth of the delusions and misinformation being peddled in this tweet, but the usual terms for this type of B.S. are apparently considered more offensive than the contents of the post in their eyes, a decision that many Americans would surely disagree with.
Trump’s morning social media fusillade continued with multiple straight retweets of clips from various Fox News personalities, making one wonder why the president had been biting the hand that fed him so well for so long and seemingly continues to do so in his earlier attack on the network that is still proving so useful in his propaganda arsenal.
In the rest of his posts today, Trump did manage to promote an appearance by his deranged attorney Rudy Giuliani on — where else? — Fox News and garner two more wrist slaps from Twitter for his phony, ego-soothing claims of election fraud.
RIGGED ELECTION. WE WILL WIN! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 15, 2020
He only won in the eyes of the FAKE NEWS MEDIA. I concede NOTHING! We have a long way to go. This was a RIGGED ELECTION! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 15, 2020
Trump’s continued refusal to accept the reality of his loss makes his status as a lame-duck president seem more aptly described as a mortally-wounded-goose presidency at this point.
Having mostly abandoned even the pretense of actually doing the job he was originally elected to perform, Trump seems to be planning on spending the remainder of his term watching TV, playing golf, and reportedly holding a few post-election rallies.
His flailing and failing legal challenges aren’t likely to prevent the certification of the election results that gave the same number of electoral votes to Joe Biden that Trump received in 2016, a result that he then called a “landslide.”
Once that occurs, Trump’s tweets will seem less like the sour-grapes ranting of a sore-loser and more and more like outright sedition.
Perhaps then Twitter will be able to move from simply placing a warning label on his posts to deleting his account entirely.
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occupydemocrats--2020-11-17--Giuliani allegedly demands $20k a day from Trump for “legal fees”

With most reputable law firms now declining to represent Donald Trump in his evidence-free efforts to overturn the results of the presidential election due to unwarranted claims of election fraud , Rudy Giuliani has stepped into the breach to represent his perhaps literal partner-in-crime .
The move comes after the remaining attorneys representing the president in the case seeking to block the certification of the Pennsylvania election results filed a motion to withdraw from the case Monday night , just days after the firm of Porter Wright Morris & Arthur also said that they would no longer be representing Trump @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Times is reporting that the former New York City mayor and federal prosecutor is demanding to be well compensated for his last-minute rescue mission in what is most likely the lost cause of reversing Biden ’ s lead in the voting tally .
Citing “ multiple people briefed on the matter , ” The Times reports that Giuliani is seeking $ 20,000 per day from the Trump campaign for his legal expertise , a figure that exceeds the yearly personal income of nearly 35 % of the U.S. population .
The request has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s campaign advisors who have balked at the exorbitant rate — which translates to an hourly fee of $ 2500 for an eight-hour workday and would place the man who has thus far presided over a series of embarrassing legal defeats for the president among the most highly paid lawyers in the land — and have apparently left the issue of Giuliani ’ s compensation unresolved .
Add your name to tell Trump : You Lost !
Concede !
Giuliani himself vigorously denied the report in the newspaper that he had demanded @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I never asked for $ 20,000 , ’ said Mr. Giuliani , saying the president volunteered to make sure he was paid after the cases concluded .
‘ The arrangement is , we ’ ll work it out at the end , ’ ” The New York Times reported .
Giuliani then said that whoever told the paper that he had made the $ 20,000-a-day request “ is a liar , a complete liar.
” With a president who is notorious for refusing to pay his bills , it would seem to make @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a premium to a risky client who offers little in the way of a chance of reaching a legal victory with such paltry evidence of the election fraud claims he is making .
Since Trump is using his election-related lawsuits as a potent fundraising tool as he enters his lame-duck period , perhaps Rudy is simply looking for his portion of the larger grift .
There is , after all , no honor among thieves .
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With most reputable law firms now declining to represent Donald Trump in his evidence-free efforts to overturn the results of the presidential election due to unwarranted claims of election fraud, Rudy Giuliani has stepped into the breach to represent his perhaps literal partner-in-crime.
The move comes after the remaining attorneys representing the president in the case seeking to block the certification of the Pennsylvania election results filed a motion to withdraw from the case Monday night, just days after the firm of Porter Wright Morris & Arthur also said that they would no longer be representing Trump in the suit.
The New York Times is reporting that the former New York City mayor and federal prosecutor is demanding to be well compensated for his last-minute rescue mission in what is most likely the lost cause of reversing Biden’s lead in the voting tally.
Citing “multiple people briefed on the matter,” The Times reports that Giuliani is seeking $20,000 per day from the Trump campaign for his legal expertise, a figure that exceeds the yearly personal income of nearly 35% of the U.S. population.
The request has reportedly faced opposition from some of Trump’s campaign advisors who have balked at the exorbitant rate — which translates to an hourly fee of $2500 for an eight-hour workday and would place the man who has thus far presided over a series of embarrassing legal defeats for the president among the most highly paid lawyers in the land — and have apparently left the issue of Giuliani’s compensation unresolved.
Add your name to tell Trump: You Lost! Concede!
Giuliani himself vigorously denied the report in the newspaper that he had demanded such a gluttonous payday.
“’I never asked for $20,000,’ said Mr. Giuliani, saying the president volunteered to make sure he was paid after the cases concluded. ‘The arrangement is, we’ll work it out at the end,’” The New York Times reported. Giuliani then said that whoever told the paper that he had made the $20,000-a-day request “is a liar, a complete liar.”
With a president who is notorious for refusing to pay his bills, it would seem to make sense for the former mayor to charge a premium to a risky client who offers little in the way of a chance of reaching a legal victory with such paltry evidence of the election fraud claims he is making.
Since Trump is using his election-related lawsuits as a potent fundraising tool as he enters his lame-duck period, perhaps Rudy is simply looking for his portion of the larger grift.
There is, after all, no honor among thieves.
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occupydemocrats--2020-11-17--Ivanka’s ex-best friend airs dirty laundry about her farts, racism

In a new piece in Vanity Fair , the former best friend of Ivanka Trump shares some truly damaging revelations about the soon-to-be-former First Daughter .
Lysandra Ohrstrom grew up with Ivanka , attended school with her , and maintained a close relationship with her that slowly petered out over the years as the yawning soulless chasm of Trumpism at the heart of her personality become more apparent .
Ohrstrom points to her time working as a journalist in Lebanon as a moment when the growing differences in personality between her and Ivanka crystallized .
Like her father , Ivanka @ @ @ @ @ @ @ empathize with others .
“ While Ivanka was laying the foundation for her conquest of Manhattan , I was experiencing a new reality in Lebanon as it was rocked by a string of political assassinations and bombings and a decimating war with Israel .
The gulf between us became increasingly apparent , ” writes Ohrstrom .
“ During my first two-year stint in Beirut , Ivanka regularly emailed me messages like , ‘ When are you getting your ass back to NYC ?
You ’ re going to be replaced.
’ I remember @ @ @ @ @ @ @ who didn ’ t ask me what the war was like.
” Ohrstrom goes on to say that a necklace she regularly wore showcased her name written in Arabic and that it began to irritate Ivanka .
The Trump scion would remark that she hated it and went so far as to ask Ohrstrom how her Jewish boyfriend felt when they were “ having sex and that necklace hits him in the face ” and asked her how she could wear something that screamed “ terrorist.
” Clearly , the same Islamophobia that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ban is also deeply embedded in his daughter .
When Ohrstrom once suggested that Ivanka read Empire Falls , a Pulitzer Prize-winning book about a diner manager , Ivanka asked her why she would ever suggest she read a book “ about f*cking poor people ” and asked : “ What part of you thinks I would be interested in this ?
” It seems apparent that Ivanka has convinced herself that she is superior to most people simply because she was fortunate enough to be born into a family with immense , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of her earliest memories of Ivanka was witnessing her fart and blame it on someone else .
While obviously far less serious than some of the other allegations she levels in the piece , it does show that Ivanka has the same pathological lying compulsion that has characterized her odious father ’ s entire life .
The overall picture that emerges in the Vanity Fair piece is one of Ivanka as an ascendent sociopath , obsessed with fame and wealth and with few redeeming qualities outside the fun but ultimately trivial experiences that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hopes that by sharing her insights into Ivanka ’ s character ( or lack thereof ) she can play some part in stopping any PR rehabilitation efforts in the next few years .
The First Daughter has enabled her father ’ s cruelties and his unprecedented assault on American democracy and she can not be allowed to evade responsibility for that .
In any just society , she would become a pariah .

In a new piece in Vanity Fair, the former best friend of Ivanka Trump shares some truly damaging revelations about the soon-to-be-former First Daughter. Lysandra Ohrstrom grew up with Ivanka, attended school with her, and maintained a close relationship with her that slowly petered out over the years as the yawning soulless chasm of Trumpism at the heart of her personality become more apparent.
Ohrstrom points to her time working as a journalist in Lebanon as a moment when the growing differences in personality between her and Ivanka crystallized. Like her father, Ivanka seems to have a profound inability to empathize with others.
“While Ivanka was laying the foundation for her conquest of Manhattan, I was experiencing a new reality in Lebanon as it was rocked by a string of political assassinations and bombings and a decimating war with Israel. The gulf between us became increasingly apparent,” writes Ohrstrom. “During my first two-year stint in Beirut, Ivanka regularly emailed me messages like, ‘When are you getting your ass back to NYC? You’re going to be replaced.’ I remember her being the only person I knew who didn’t ask me what the war was like.”
Ohrstrom goes on to say that a necklace she regularly wore showcased her name written in Arabic and that it began to irritate Ivanka. The Trump scion would remark that she hated it and went so far as to ask Ohrstrom how her Jewish boyfriend felt when they were “having sex and that necklace hits him in the face” and asked her how she could wear something that screamed “terrorist.” Clearly, the same Islamophobia that fueled President Trump’s racist Muslim ban is also deeply embedded in his daughter.
When Ohrstrom once suggested that Ivanka read Empire Falls, a Pulitzer Prize-winning book about a diner manager, Ivanka asked her why she would ever suggest she read a book “about f*cking poor people” and asked: “What part of you thinks I would be interested in this?” It seems apparent that Ivanka has convinced herself that she is superior to most people simply because she was fortunate enough to be born into a family with immense, ill-gotten wealth.
Ohrstrom writes that one of her earliest memories of Ivanka was witnessing her fart and blame it on someone else. While obviously far less serious than some of the other allegations she levels in the piece, it does show that Ivanka has the same pathological lying compulsion that has characterized her odious father’s entire life.
The overall picture that emerges in the Vanity Fair piece is one of Ivanka as an ascendent sociopath, obsessed with fame and wealth and with few redeeming qualities outside the fun but ultimately trivial experiences that children often share growing up.
Ohrstrom hopes that by sharing her insights into Ivanka’s character (or lack thereof) she can play some part in stopping any PR rehabilitation efforts in the next few years. The First Daughter has enabled her father’s cruelties and his unprecedented assault on American democracy and she cannot be allowed to evade responsibility for that. In any just society, she would become a pariah.
Read Ohrstrom’s piece here.
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