occupydemocrats--2020-08-20--Trump publicly trashes John McCain after watching Sarah Palin’s Tucker Carlson appearance

On Thursday morning , the President lashed out at the late Senator John McCain after watching last night ’ s episode of Tucker Carlson ’ s FOX News show , which featured McCain ’ s Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin .
Though he was unable to help himself from trashing the dead Republican as a “ lousy candidate with lots of bad policy , ” the real target of his ire were the “ deadheads ” who ran McCain ’ s campaign like Steve Schmidt who he accused of “ sabotaging ” his campaign from the inside .
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McCain ’ s former senior campaign strategist Steve Schmidt is a vocal critic of Trump and is a member of the so-called “ Lincoln Project , ” the group of washed-up GOP operatives who are desperately trying to ingratiate themselves with the Democratic Party and ensure a future for their political careers with their snappy TV ads and stolen tweets .
Donald Trump began attacking John McCain long before he ever came near the Oval Office , famously questioning McCain ’ s military service record in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that he “ liked veterans who didn ’ t get captured.
” Since then , the feud between McCain and Trump turned into a back and forth series of quiet criticisms from McCain and rude responses from the President , punctuated by McCain continuing to vote in favor of everything President Trump wanted to do until the crucial vote on the repeal of Obamacare and its replacement with a hollow shell that would kick tens of millions off of their healthcare .
In a dramatic showdown on the Senate floor , McCain voted @ @ @ @ @ @ @ kick in the teeth to one of Trump ’ s biggest policy objectives — and provoked the animus that has sustained the president ’ s infamously endless resentment towards McCain .
Though McCain has been dead for two years now , Donald Trump ’ s drive for personal vengeance is still so strong that he never misses an opportunity to smear him .
It is yet another one of the countless character flaws that make him uniquely unqualified to hold the powerful office that he does .

On Thursday morning, the President lashed out at the late Senator John McCain after watching last night’s episode of Tucker Carlson’s FOX News show, which featured McCain’s Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
Though he was unable to help himself from trashing the dead Republican as a “lousy candidate with lots of bad policy,” the real target of his ire were the “deadheads” who ran McCain’s campaign like Steve Schmidt who he accused of “sabotaging” his campaign from the inside.
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McCain’s former senior campaign strategist Steve Schmidt is a vocal critic of Trump and is a member of the so-called “Lincoln Project,” the group of washed-up GOP operatives who are desperately trying to ingratiate themselves with the Democratic Party and ensure a future for their political careers with their snappy TV ads and stolen tweets.
Sarah is correct. McCain was a lousy candidate with lots of bad policy, but the “deadheads” sabotaged his campaign from the inside, and never gave him a chance to win. Hope they were happy with OBiden, who gave you me! https://t.co/rynLuGRKHA — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 20, 2020
Donald Trump began attacking John McCain long before he ever came near the Oval Office, famously questioning McCain’s military service record in an interview with Megyn Kelly and saying that he “liked veterans who didn’t get captured.”
Since then, the feud between McCain and Trump turned into a back and forth series of quiet criticisms from McCain and rude responses from the President, punctuated by McCain continuing to vote in favor of everything President Trump wanted to do until the crucial vote on the repeal of Obamacare and its replacement with a hollow shell that would kick tens of millions off of their healthcare.
In a dramatic showdown on the Senate floor, McCain voted “no” and provided a final kick in the teeth to one of Trump’s biggest policy objectives — and provoked the animus that has sustained the president’s infamously endless resentment towards McCain.
Though McCain has been dead for two years now, Donald Trump’s drive for personal vengeance is still so strong that he never misses an opportunity to smear him. It is yet another one of the countless character flaws that make him uniquely unqualified to hold the powerful office that he does.
Colin Taylor Opinion columnist and former editor-in-chief of Occupy Democrats. He graduated from Bennington College with a Bachelor's degree in history and political science. He now focuses on advancing the cause of social justice and equality in America. Latest Posts


occupydemocrats--2020-08-21--Mentally ill man who “acted funny” dies after police shove his face into 100 degree asphalt

There have been months of non-stop protests against police violence in the wake of the brutal murder of George Floyd , but it doesn ’ t appear to have had one iota of impact on the behavior of America ’ s police forces , who are still employing just as much unnecessary force against people of color as they always have — and killing them with it .
Police in Phoenix , Arizona have finally released the body-camera footage of the August 4 altercation which led to the death of Ramon Timothy Lopez , a father of two who suffered @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ t mind their own business called the cops on Lopez , saying he was “ sticking his tongue out ” at cars and “ acting funny.
” The police showed up and chased him .
Lopez ran into a convenience store , stole a drink , and threw it at the cops before taking off again .
After they catch up to him , Lopez is shoved to the ground , his face pressed into the hot asphalt on a 100-degree plus day for over six minutes and fell unconscious .
When @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cops simply poured water on his head and yelled at him to “ wake up.
” He was later pronounced dead at a hospital .
In places like Arizona that regularly see extreme heat , hot asphalt is known to cause second degree-burns at 131 degrees and regularly gets up to over 160 degrees in Phoenix .
An internal investigation is underway , but the results of any internal police investigation are almost certainly foregone conclusions that inevitably exonerate the police of any wrongdoing .
It is both infuriating and heartbreaking to see @ @ @ @ @ @ @ again and again , refusing to alter their behavior in the slightest after provoking nationwide riots with their excessive violence and cruelty .
Having deprived all other social services of desperately needed funds and resources in order to fuel the gargantuan police department budget , American society , rather unreasonably , asks its police officers to pick up the slack .
They are expected to be social workers , mental health aides , family mediators in addition to “ law enforcement ” while receiving almost no training to do anything but fire a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Americans are sixteen times more likely to die in an encounter with the police and are the victims in anywhere from one quarter to a half of all fatal police shootings .
Had the police bothered to call a social worker , the situation could have been easily de-escalated and an innocent man would still be alive .
“ I just feel like they could ’ ve done something , and I just feel like they cheated my kids of their dad , ” said his girlfriend , Evangelina Rodriguez to ABC15 .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ are going to kill me.
” Instead , they assumed he was on drugs and killed him .

There have been months of non-stop protests against police violence in the wake of the brutal murder of George Floyd, but it doesn’t appear to have had one iota of impact on the behavior of America’s police forces, who are still employing just as much unnecessary force against people of color as they always have — and killing them with it.
Police in Phoenix, Arizona have finally released the body-camera footage of the August 4 altercation which led to the death of Ramon Timothy Lopez, a father of two who suffered from schizophrenia. Some passerby who couldn’t mind their own business called the cops on Lopez, saying he was “sticking his tongue out” at cars and “acting funny.”
The police showed up and chased him. Lopez ran into a convenience store, stole a drink, and threw it at the cops before taking off again. After they catch up to him, Lopez is shoved to the ground, his face pressed into the hot asphalt on a 100-degree plus day for over six minutes and fell unconscious. When they realized he was unresponsive, the cops simply poured water on his head and yelled at him to “wake up.” He was later pronounced dead at a hospital.
In places like Arizona that regularly see extreme heat, hot asphalt is known to cause second degree-burns at 131 degrees and regularly gets up to over 160 degrees in Phoenix.
An internal investigation is underway, but the results of any internal police investigation are almost certainly foregone conclusions that inevitably exonerate the police of any wrongdoing.
It is both infuriating and heartbreaking to see the police behave this way again and again and again, refusing to alter their behavior in the slightest after provoking nationwide riots with their excessive violence and cruelty.
Having deprived all other social services of desperately needed funds and resources in order to fuel the gargantuan police department budget, American society, rather unreasonably, asks its police officers to pick up the slack. They are expected to be social workers, mental health aides, family mediators in addition to “law enforcement” while receiving almost no training to do anything but fire a gun.
That is why mentally ill Americans are sixteen times more likely to die in an encounter with the police and are the victims in anywhere from one quarter to a half of all fatal police shootings.
Had the police bothered to call a social worker, the situation could have been easily de-escalated and an innocent man would still be alive. “I just feel like they could’ve done something, and I just feel like they cheated my kids of their dad,” said his girlfriend, Evangelina Rodriguez to ABC15. “He always said that the cops are going to kill me.”
Instead, they assumed he was on drugs and killed him.
Original reporting by Tim Stelloh at NBC News.
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occupydemocrats--2020-08-21--“Catholic Case for Trump” author roundly slammed after mocking Biden’s stutter

While Democratic nominee and former Vice-President Joe Biden gave a wonderful and compelling speech to close out the 2020 Democratic National Convention , the real hero of the night was 13-year-old Brayden Harrington , who struggles with a stutter just as Biden himself once did .
As someone who has struggled with a stutter myself , I know firsthand how hard it can be to get the words out and what kind of courage it must have taken for him to speak to the entire nation .
For Biden to have personally reached out and helped this young man speaks @ @ @ @ @ @ @ empathetic person Joe can be , a stark contrast to the nihilistically cruel and monstrously selfish Donald Trump , who once cut off the medical funds for his nephew ’ s sick baby as retaliation for a lawsuit .
It would take a truly awful person with a blackened , hollow soul to mock Biden and this young man for their speech impediments — and Austin Rose , the writer of the book “ The Catholic Case for Trump , ” proved eager to demonstrate the depths of his hypocrisy .
Ruse denied @ @ @ @ @ @ @ then when challenged on it , mocked the future president and Harrington for stuttering : Ruse was immediately laid into by both conservative and liberal figures alike , appalled that someone who considers himself a “ Christian ” could be so needlessly cruel .
It just goes to show how Trumpism has completely warped the minds of so many conservatives to the point where this kind of behavior is considered acceptable and even commendable .

While Democratic nominee and former Vice-President Joe Biden gave a wonderful and compelling speech to close out the 2020 Democratic National Convention, the real hero of the night was 13-year-old Brayden Harrington, who struggles with a stutter just as Biden himself once did.
Brayden Harrington with the speech of the night#DemConvention pic.twitter.com/gRWmiNAY47 — philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) August 21, 2020
As someone who has struggled with a stutter myself, I know firsthand how hard it can be to get the words out and what kind of courage it must have taken for him to speak to the entire nation. For Biden to have personally reached out and helped this young man speaks to what kind of a caring and empathetic person Joe can be, a stark contrast to the nihilistically cruel and monstrously selfish Donald Trump, who once cut off the medical funds for his nephew’s sick baby as retaliation for a lawsuit.
It would take a truly awful person with a blackened, hollow soul to mock Biden and this young man for their speech impediments — and Austin Rose, the writer of the book “The Catholic Case for Trump,” proved eager to demonstrate the depths of his hypocrisy.
Ruse denied that Biden ever had a stutter and then when challenged on it, mocked the future president and Harrington for stuttering:
Ruse was immediately laid into by both conservative and liberal figures alike, appalled that someone who considers himself a “Christian” could be so needlessly cruel.
Austin Ruse mocked Biden's stutter. "Austin, it may not surprise you to learn, is author of the recently published The Catholic Case For Trump." https://t.co/jO2vp6VN2R — Charlie Sykes (@SykesCharlie) August 21, 2020
This fired me up this morning. I'm not a Biden supporter, but the speech from the boy who stutters was one of the most inspiring things I've seen in ages. And then to see a conservative Catholic writer mock the child's handicap? Appalling beyond words. https://t.co/AqETm9KjZJ — Rod Dreher (@roddreher) August 21, 2020
This person mocking stuttering is author of a book called “The Catholic Case for Trump.” https://t.co/UpvNzoXjeu — Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) August 21, 2020
Austin Ruse, author of “the Catholic Case for Trump,” i wrote a book you might like, titled “the Catholic Case for the List.” now give me your phone and recite 69 Hail Marys. pic.twitter.com/4ZRDQtdSWZ — Siraj Hashmi (@SirajAHashmi) August 21, 2020
You’re a fucking asshole. — Steven Hyden (@Steven_Hyden) August 21, 2020
You are lower than dirt — Dave Zirin (@EdgeofSports) August 21, 2020
It just goes to show how Trumpism has completely warped the minds of so many conservatives to the point where this kind of behavior is considered acceptable and even commendable.
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occupydemocrats--2020-08-21--FOX’s Chris Wallace showers praise on Biden speech: it “blew a hole” in Trump’s attack plan

By all accounts , Democratic nominee Joe Biden gave the speech of a lifetime last night to close out Democratic National Convention .
In a powerful and eloquently delivered speech , Biden painted the upcoming election in stark terms : as a battle between the forces of light and darkness for the soul of this nation .
“ Here and now , I give you my word : If you entrust me with the presidency , I will draw on the best of us , not the worst .
I will be an ally of the light , not of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for us , for We the People , to come together…Make no mistake .
United we can , and will , overcome this season of darkness in America .
We will choose hope over fear , facts over fiction , fairness over privilege…History has thrust one more urgent task on us .
Will we be the generation that finally wipes the stain of racism from our national character ?
This is our moment .
This is our mission .
May history be able to say that the end of this chapter of American @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hope and light joined in the battle for the soul of the nation .
And this is a battle that we , together , will win , ” said Biden .
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While presenting a compelling argument for the people of this nation to consider , he also debunked one of the Trump campaign ’ s major talking points against him — the laughable idea that Biden is somehow mentally unsound for the presidency .
FOX News @ @ @ @ @ @ @ speech and declared that it “ blew a hole ” in Trump ’ s attacks against him .
Other FOX News personalities were surprisingly pleased with the speech from the former vice-president , which is bound to drive Trump up the wall when he watches the coverage in fury on his way to his golf club today .
For Trump to accuse Biden of being mentally unfit for the president is about as throwing-rocks-in-a-glass-house as you can get .
His last few speeches have been characterized by wild , nonsensical tangents that are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rapidly decaying brain attempting to maintain coherency by stringing together unrelated ideas and vague recollections mashed into his the formulaic speech patterns he uses for all subjects , like this recent example : “ You take a shower , the water doesn ’ t come out , you wan na wash your hands , the water doeszzent [ sic ] come out , so what do you do , you just stand there longer ?
because I don ’ t know about you , but my hair has to be perfect .
Dishwashers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ water so the people that do the dishes , you press it , and it goes again , and you do it again , and again so you might as well give them the water because you ’ ll end up using less water , so we made it so dishwashers now have…a lot more water , and in many places , in most places in the country , water ’ s not a problem , they don ’ t even know what to do with it .
It ’ s called RAIN @ @

By all accounts, Democratic nominee Joe Biden gave the speech of a lifetime last night to close out Democratic National Convention. In a powerful and eloquently delivered speech, Biden painted the upcoming election in stark terms: as a battle between the forces of light and darkness for the soul of this nation.
“Here and now, I give you my word: If you entrust me with the presidency, I will draw on the best of us, not the worst. I will be an ally of the light, not of the darkness. It’s time for us, for We the People, to come together…Make no mistake. United we can, and will, overcome this season of darkness in America. We will choose hope over fear, facts over fiction, fairness over privilege…History has thrust one more urgent task on us. Will we be the generation that finally wipes the stain of racism from our national character?
This is our moment. This is our mission. May history be able to say that the end of this chapter of American darkness began here tonight as love and hope and light joined in the battle for the soul of the nation. And this is a battle that we, together, will win,” said Biden.
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While presenting a compelling argument for the people of this nation to consider, he also debunked one of the Trump campaign’s major talking points against him — the laughable idea that Biden is somehow mentally unsound for the presidency.
FOX News’ Chris Wallace praised Biden’s speech and declared that it “blew a hole” in Trump’s attacks against him. Other FOX News personalities were surprisingly pleased with the speech from the former vice-president, which is bound to drive Trump up the wall when he watches the coverage in fury on his way to his golf club today.
Dana Parino said Biden "just hit a home run in the bottom of the ninth," followed by Karl Rove saying "it was a very good speech." pic.twitter.com/trWr5eyrJx — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 21, 2020
For Trump to accuse Biden of being mentally unfit for the president is about as throwing-rocks-in-a-glass-house as you can get. His last few speeches have been characterized by wild, nonsensical tangents that are clearly the product of a cholestrol-choked and rapidly decaying brain attempting to maintain coherency by stringing together unrelated ideas and vague recollections mashed into his the formulaic speech patterns he uses for all subjects, like this recent example:
“You take a shower, the water doesn’t come out, you wanna wash your hands, the water doeszzent [sic] come out, so what do you do, you just stand there longer? because I don’t know about you, but my hair has to be perfect. Dishwashers. You didn’t have any water so the people that do the dishes, you press it, and it goes again, and you do it again, and again so you might as well give them the water because you’ll end up using less water, so we made it so dishwashers now have…a lot more water, and in many places, in most places in the country, water’s not a problem, they don’t even know what to do with it. It’s called RAIN.”
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occupydemocrats--2020-08-22--Trump stamps his feet and cries “HOAX” in latest postal service Twitter outburst

One can always tell when Donald Trump ’ s weekend golf rounds are complete .
The blissful silence on his Twitter feed ends , only to be replaced with the latest steaming pile of whatever rant is clouding his obsessively paranoid consciousness at the moment .
After returning from his rounds at his Trump National Golf Club just outside Washington DC today , the U.S .
Postal Service and the likelihood that universal mail-in voting and a highly motivated electorate would be deadly to his efforts to win a second term in office were top of mind for the president @ @ @ @ @ @ @ afternoon .
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Let ’ s parse Trump ’ s tweet for more accurate comprehension of what he ’ s trying to say and why .
One has to understand that by “ Representatives of the Post Office ” Trump is referring to his hand-picked Postmaster General , Louis DeJoy , who is a major donor to his campaign and still has a massive conflict of interest “ after failing to divest significant financial interests in two @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the United States Postal Service , ” according to the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington ( CREW ) .
The evaluation that the Post Office does “ NOT NEED MONEY ” seems to be motivated entirely by Trump ’ s nefarious scheme to cripple the Postal Service to prevent all those mail-in ballots — votes that are invulnerable to electronic hacking by foreign or domestic forces looking to pervert the results of an otherwise free and fair election — from being delivered .
Given the massive deficits that the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by a then Republican-led Congress in 2006 to pre-fund their pension payments many years in advance in a manner unlike many other businesses or federal agencies , the claim that the USPS does not need additional funding is a ludicrous lie much greater than the supposed “ HOAX ” the president is accusing Democrats of attempting to pull .
That it ’ s no hoax that the Trump administration is trying to discredit mail-in voting for his own benefit is proven by the president ’ s attempts to characterize “ ABSENTEE BALLOTS ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ identical mail-in ballots that he condemns .
The fact is that with America ’ s patchwork of state voting regulations the two terms are used interchangeably to refer to the exact same process and no amount of bluster by the president can change the meaning of one to distinguish it from the other .
The reports of the continued dismantling of mail sorting machines — despite Postmaster DeJoy ’ s sworn Congressional testimony that he had ordered a halt to further changes to the USPS operation until after the November elections — and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ dead baby chicks piling up in post offices across the country after DeJoy ’ s ascension to the Postmaster ’ s role .
This entire tweet by Trump is just one big desperate lie to try to salvage his re-election campaign from the swift fall into the pits of hopelessness that his failures while in power truly deserve .
Make sure you repudiate Trump ’ s malfeasance by voting him out for good in November , no matter how you cast your ballot .
Remember that this president only accuses others of behavior @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , so additional ballot security measures will be needed in November , but mostly to protect the integrity of the electoral process from Trump ’ s evil minions .
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One can always tell when Donald Trump’s weekend golf rounds are complete.
The blissful silence on his Twitter feed ends, only to be replaced with the latest steaming pile of whatever rant is clouding his obsessively paranoid consciousness at the moment.
WATCH: President Trump hits the links at his Virginia golf club on Saturday. pic.twitter.com/ajsKBr0BeX — The Hill (@thehill) August 22, 2020
After returning from his rounds at his Trump National Golf Club just outside Washington DC today, the U.S. Postal Service and the likelihood that universal mail-in voting and a highly motivated electorate would be deadly to his efforts to win a second term in office were top of mind for the president judging from the posts he made this afternoon.
….that they are trying to pull off in violation of everything that our Country stands for. Vote NO to the Pelosi/ Schumer money wasting HOAX which is taking place now. Then fight the $51 million unasked for Ballots. Only ABSENTEE BALLOTS are acceptable! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 22, 2020
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Let’s parse Trump’s tweet for more accurate comprehension of what he’s trying to say and why.
One has to understand that by “Representatives of the Post Office” Trump is referring to his hand-picked Postmaster General, Louis DeJoy, who is a major donor to his campaign and still has a massive conflict of interest “after failing to divest significant financial interests in two companies directly affected by the work of the United States Postal Service,” according to the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW).
The evaluation that the Post Office does “NOT NEED MONEY” seems to be motivated entirely by Trump’s nefarious scheme to cripple the Postal Service to prevent all those mail-in ballots — votes that are invulnerable to electronic hacking by foreign or domestic forces looking to pervert the results of an otherwise free and fair election — from being delivered.
Given the massive deficits that the USPS has run since they were required by a then Republican-led Congress in 2006 to pre-fund their pension payments many years in advance in a manner unlike many other businesses or federal agencies, the claim that the USPS does not need additional funding is a ludicrous lie much greater than the supposed “HOAX” the president is accusing Democrats of attempting to pull.
That it’s no hoax that the Trump administration is trying to discredit mail-in voting for his own benefit is proven by the president’s attempts to characterize “ABSENTEE BALLOTS” as something separate and different from the identical mail-in ballots that he condemns.
The fact is that with America’s patchwork of state voting regulations the two terms are used interchangeably to refer to the exact same process and no amount of bluster by the president can change the meaning of one to distinguish it from the other.
The reports of the continued dismantling of mail sorting machines — despite Postmaster DeJoy’s sworn Congressional testimony that he had ordered a halt to further changes to the USPS operation until after the November elections — and the stories of delayed medication deliveries and dead baby chicks piling up in post offices across the country after DeJoy’s ascension to the Postmaster’s role.
This entire tweet by Trump is just one big desperate lie to try to salvage his re-election campaign from the swift fall into the pits of hopelessness that his failures while in power truly deserve.
Make sure you repudiate Trump’s malfeasance by voting him out for good in November, no matter how you cast your ballot.
Remember that this president only accuses others of behavior that he himself is likely guilty of, so additional ballot security measures will be needed in November, but mostly to protect the integrity of the electoral process from Trump’s evil minions.
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occupydemocrats--2020-08-22--Melania unveils Rose Garden redesign and gets creamed for replacing trees with concrete

The First Lady has traditionally been in charge of any changes in the design of the interior and exterior of the White House that she and her husband currently occupy .
Today , Melania Trump got to unveil her renovations of the White House Rose Garden and faced strident outcries after it was revealed that she had trees and other shrubs — planted by then-First Lady Jackie Kennedy when she oversaw the redesign of the garden in 1961 — replaced with a concrete sidewalk .
While the newly stripped landscape may make for better camera angles when Melania addresses the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ garden — as she is reportedly planning on doing despite the ethical prohibition on using federal property in political campaigns — many people on social media reacted negatively to what they considered to be a desecration of the Kennedy legacy .
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Luckily , like much of the Trump family ’ s own legacy , the damage caused by this “ renovation ” can be undone once Donald is evicted from the property that he has squatted @ @ @ @ @ @ @ past three and a half years .
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The First Lady has traditionally been in charge of any changes in the design of the interior and exterior of the White House that she and her husband currently occupy.
Today, Melania Trump got to unveil her renovations of the White House Rose Garden and faced strident outcries after it was revealed that she had trees and other shrubs — planted by then-First Lady Jackie Kennedy when she oversaw the redesign of the garden in 1961 — replaced with a concrete sidewalk.
Before and after photographs of newly renovated White House Rose Garden:
courtesy #Getty and @marycjordan pic.twitter.com/w6bzoNHMjC — Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) August 22, 2020
While the newly stripped landscape may make for better camera angles when Melania addresses the Republican convention this week from the Rose garden — as she is reportedly planning on doing despite the ethical prohibition on using federal property in political campaigns — many people on social media reacted negatively to what they considered to be a desecration of the Kennedy legacy.
I think the new one is just — bland. I liked all the reds and pinks and yellows, with a few white ones mixed in. Melania has bad taste. Imagine what she will do with $117 Million remodel of WH. SMDH Gawdy – I suspect all gold. — Barbara B999 (@BarbaraB9999) August 22, 2020
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Works for mobility scooters as well. — Jack Russell (@JackRussell02) August 22, 2020
Horrible! Those beautiful trees and flowers, gone! Completely lacking in soul just like the current occupants. This reminds me of the esthetic in 1930's Germany. Gives me chills. — Spirit Bear (@SpiritbearNY) August 22, 2020
Luckily, like much of the Trump family’s own legacy, the damage caused by this “renovation” can be undone once Donald is evicted from the property that he has squatted in without a popular mandate for the past three and a half years.
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occupydemocrats--2020-08-22--Scaramucci warns Trump about his “criminality” as exposed in ex-attorney Michael Cohen’s new book

The body count in the Donald Trump regime goes beyond the now over 175,000 deaths due to COVID-19 , beyond the U.S. armed forces targeted due to Russian bounties on their heads , to the now ruined careers of so many of the people he has employed both in his business enterprises and his presidential term so far .
One of the early casualties of Trump ’ s White House tenure , former Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci , who was transformed into a fierce critic of the president by even his briefest of times working in the Oval Office , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ prepared for a new set of damaging revelations — backed up by hard evidence — about to be published in the new book by his former personal attorney Michael Cohen .
Scaramucci appeared on MSNBC this afternoon and characterized Cohen ’ s tell-all tome — written as the former Trump Organization lawyer and “ fixer ” languished in prison for his own crimes of lying to Congress and violating campaign finance and tax laws — as highlighting Trump as a recidivist criminal and exposing the “ repetitiveness ” of his legal violations .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ s book will give the details of Trump ’ s “ rank criminality ” and “ steep , steep immorality backed up by evidence.
” “ It is not like Michael is going to say this and the White House is going to discredit him and ‘ say he has a problem in the court system and he went to prison , ’ ” Scaramucci explained .
“ He is going to back it up with documentary evidence to show the level of illegality , the repetitiveness of the illegality , and I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ betrayal to the country is astonishing , ” he continued .
“ So that information originally , unfortunately , he ’ s done a very good job of over the last three years of capping that information .
We are getting to his re-election and all of this information is going to be coming out and Michael ’ s book will be a very big cornerstone of that.
” Scaramucci expressed his curiosity about how the White House will respond to allegations backed up with the evidence proving the accusations .
If that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for the strategically-timed release of Michael Cohen ’ s new book , who knows what actually could .
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Unfortunately , we ’ ll have to wait until the September 8 publication date to read the full book , although excerpts are likely to be published in advance of the release date as part of the book ’ s marketing campaign .
Even in pre-orders alone , the book is at # 7 on the Amazon charts @ @ @ @ @ @ @ burn brightly .
You can watch Anthony Scaramucci ’ s appearance on MSNBC , discussing the arrest of Steve Bannon and Cohen ’ s upcoming written indictment of the president in the video excerpt below .
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The body count in the Donald Trump regime goes beyond the now over 175,000 deaths due to COVID-19, beyond the U.S. armed forces targeted due to Russian bounties on their heads, to the now ruined careers of so many of the people he has employed both in his business enterprises and his presidential term so far.
One of the early casualties of Trump’s White House tenure, former Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci, who was transformed into a fierce critic of the president by even his briefest of times working in the Oval Office, warned Trump that he had better be prepared for a new set of damaging revelations — backed up by hard evidence — about to be published in the new book by his former personal attorney Michael Cohen.
Scaramucci appeared on MSNBC this afternoon and characterized Cohen’s tell-all tome — written as the former Trump Organization lawyer and “fixer” languished in prison for his own crimes of lying to Congress and violating campaign finance and tax laws — as highlighting Trump as a recidivist criminal and exposing the “repetitiveness” of his legal violations.
The ex-Communications chief aid that Cohen’s book will give the details of Trump’s “rank criminality” and “steep, steep immorality backed up by evidence.”
“It is not like Michael is going to say this and the White House is going to discredit him and ‘say he has a problem in the court system and he went to prison,’” Scaramucci explained. “He is going to back it up with documentary evidence to show the level of illegality, the repetitiveness of the illegality, and I tweeted out earlier this morning that the betrayal to the country is astonishing,” he continued. “So that information originally, unfortunately, he’s done a very good job of over the last three years of capping that information. We are getting to his re-election and all of this information is going to be coming out and Michael’s book will be a very big cornerstone of that.”
Scaramucci expressed his curiosity about how the White House will respond to allegations backed up with the evidence proving the accusations.
“Can I say something?” Scaramucci asked. “If it’s a bunch of lies that he shows up with the documentary evidence that he literally just shows the paperwork behind that, just curious what the White House will say to that.”
If that teaser doesn’t get you salivating for the strategically-timed release of Michael Cohen’s new book, who knows what actually could.
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Unfortunately, we’ll have to wait until the September 8 publication date to read the full book, although excerpts are likely to be published in advance of the release date as part of the book’s marketing campaign.
Even in pre-orders alone, the book is at #7 on the Amazon charts, surely making Trump’s envy burn brightly.
You can watch Anthony Scaramucci’s appearance on MSNBC, discussing the arrest of Steve Bannon and Cohen’s upcoming written indictment of the president in the video excerpt below.
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Original reporting by Tom Boggioni at RawStory.
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occupydemocrats--2020-08-22--Trump attacks Democrats and the FDA in Saturday morning Twitter barrage

As Donald Trump prepares for whatever he can salvage from the Republican party ’ s oft-disrupted national convention plans , one can easily see the themes he plans to disseminate in the multiple evenings of political boosterism ahead in the week to come .
It ’ s all laid out in his Twitter feed .
Let ’ s take a look at the president ’ s posts this morning to see what we can discern about how he intends to attack his Democratic opponents and pitch his record of malfeasance , incompetence , and disaster as worthy of being extended @ @ @ @ @ @ @ first tweet of the morning portends a continuation of his campaign of fear — a hoary GOP tradition dating back at least as far as G. H. W. Bush ’ s infamous “ Willie Horton ” ad that played on the demonization of Black Americans and suburban anxieties over crime .
Local Portland officials know full-well the dangers of the addition of shadowy federal forces in unmarked vans and tactical combat gear with no identifying insignias to the volatile situation on the ground in Portland , especially combined with the provocation of right-wing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Neither they nor Oregon state officials are likely to grant the president his wish , particularly since they ’ ve been trying to eliminate the DHS irregulars from the city for weeks now .
If the president believes this post helps his reelection cause , he is totally deluded since all it does is highlight his failures to respond to peaceful demands for human rights with compassion rather than force .
Trump next moved on to attacking Democrats on religion , playing to his evangelical base by portraying his opposition as godless heathens @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to stop Trump ’ s sabotage of the post office !
< Trump obviously knows nothing about the Pledge of Allegiance and how it arrived at its modern form .
The Pledge of Allegiance was written in August 1892 by the socialist minister Francis Bellamy and read in its original like this : In 1923 , the pledge was revised to add the words “ of the United States of America ” after “ Flag ” and was revised by Congress again in 1954 at the urging of President Eisenhower at the height @ @ @ @ @ @ @ phrase “ under God.
” The biggest problem with Trump ’ s tweet , however , is not his failure to learn the history behind the pledge , but the fact that his accusation is a complete lie , as MSNBC ’ s Kyle Griffin pointed out was confirmed by Snopes .
Failing to connect with his misbegotten lies , the president tried to bolster his flailing campaign in the crucial swing state of Wisconsin , by assaulting the Democrats for largely abandoning the site of their convention after being forced to hold @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s failures in addressing the spread of the COVID-19 virus .
This tweet is pretty laughable when one considers the fact that the GOP has essentially done the same thing to not one city , but two , having announced that they would mostly abandon the initially contracted location in Charlotte , North Carolina after the state ’ s Democratic governor insisted on strict masking and other preventive measures be implemented to prevent the pandemic from spreading further .
Having decided to move Trump ’ s acceptance speech to Jacksonville , Florida at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ COVID cases in the Sunshine state forced them to cancel that idea as well and move to a similarly virtual convention plan as the Democrats held .
The president switched back to fear-mongering in his next post , hoping to frighten those few suburban housewives who still conform to his 1950s-era stereotype of a stay-at-home white mom with no career and a breadwinning husband in a single-income family .
Trump failed to notice that the suburbs are much more diverse than they were back then , that the “ suburban housewives ” are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ single moms , and that few families can survive on a single income in the Trump economy .
With those suburban moms increasingly on the frontlines of BLM protests , the electorate is changing at a much more rapid pace than Trump ’ s conceptions can keep up with .
The president continued his crusade against science with his next post .
So desperate for a cure for the pandemic that his failures have transformed into an albatross around the neck of his re-election campaign , Trump grouses that the FDA still wants @ @ @ @ @ @ @ treating the coronavirus are both safe and effective despite his urgent need to be seen as doing something quickly to stop the spread of the pandemic .
The paranoia of his “ deep state ” accusations is palpable .
He extended his promotion of unproven cures and anti-scientific methodology by claiming to have studied many papers and spoken to numerous doctors — perhaps even some who don ’ t believe in alien DNA and demon sperm — who agree with his magical thinking .
Of course , Trump could not let the day @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on the same method of voting that he regularly has used for his own ballots .
Yes , there is a “ Disaster in the wings , ” but only if a sufficient number of American ’ s fail to be allowed to express their preferences to rid the White House of your desecration of the premises and elect Joe Biden as our next president .
Make sure you are registered and vote in any manner you feel safest utilizing .
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As Donald Trump prepares for whatever he can salvage from the Republican party’s oft-disrupted national convention plans, one can easily see the themes he plans to disseminate in the multiple evenings of political boosterism ahead in the week to come.
It’s all laid out in his Twitter feed.
Let’s take a look at the president’s posts this morning to see what we can discern about how he intends to attack his Democratic opponents and pitch his record of malfeasance, incompetence, and disaster as worthy of being extended another four years.
Trump’s first tweet of the morning portends a continuation of his campaign of fear — a hoary GOP tradition dating back at least as far as G. H. W. Bush’s infamous “Willie Horton” ad that played on the demonization of Black Americans and suburban anxieties over crime.
Another bad night of Rioting in Portland, Oregon. A small number of Federal troops there to protect courthouse and other Federal property only (great job!). Wanting to be asked by City & State to STOP THE RIOTS. Would bring in National Guard, end problem immediately. ASK! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 22, 2020
Local Portland officials know full-well the dangers of the addition of shadowy federal forces in unmarked vans and tactical combat gear with no identifying insignias to the volatile situation on the ground in Portland, especially combined with the provocation of right-wing militias spoiling for a race war.
Neither they nor Oregon state officials are likely to grant the president his wish, particularly since they’ve been trying to eliminate the DHS irregulars from the city for weeks now.
If the president believes this post helps his reelection cause, he is totally deluded since all it does is highlight his failures to respond to peaceful demands for human rights with compassion rather than force.
Trump next moved on to attacking Democrats on religion, playing to his evangelical base by portraying his opposition as godless heathens.
The Democrats took the word GOD out of the Pledge of Allegiance at the Democrat National Convention. At first I thought they made a mistake, but it wasn’t. It was done on purpose. Remember Evangelical Christians, and ALL, this is where they are coming from-it’s done. Vote Nov 3! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 22, 2020
Sign the petition to tell Congress to stop Trump’s sabotage of the post office!<
Trump obviously knows nothing about the Pledge of Allegiance and how it arrived at its modern form.
The Pledge of Allegiance was written in August 1892 by the socialist minister Francis Bellamy and read in its original like this:
“I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”
In 1923, the pledge was revised to add the words “of the United States of America” after “Flag” and was revised by Congress again in 1954 at the urging of President Eisenhower at the height of the Cold War to add the phrase “under God.”
The biggest problem with Trump’s tweet, however, is not his failure to learn the history behind the pledge, but the fact that his accusation is a complete lie, as MSNBC’s Kyle Griffin pointed out was confirmed by Snopes.
Trump is lying when he says that the DNC removed 'under God' from the Pledge of Allegiance. Snopes: "On the national stage, the phrase 'under God' was used during the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance at the start of each night of the 2020 DNC." Trump's tweet is a lie. — Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 22, 2020
Failing to connect with his misbegotten lies, the president tried to bolster his flailing campaign in the crucial swing state of Wisconsin, by assaulting the Democrats for largely abandoning the site of their convention after being forced to hold the affair virtually due to Trump’s failures in addressing the spread of the COVID-19 virus.
Biden and the Democrats have greatly disrespected the Great State of Wisconsin by not even paying a small visit to Milwaukee, the designated site of the DNC. The State & City worked very hard to make sure things would be good. Not nice. Vote Trump Wisconsin! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 22, 2020
This tweet is pretty laughable when one considers the fact that the GOP has essentially done the same thing to not one city, but two, having announced that they would mostly abandon the initially contracted location in Charlotte, North Carolina after the state’s Democratic governor insisted on strict masking and other preventive measures be implemented to prevent the pandemic from spreading further.
Having decided to move Trump’s acceptance speech to Jacksonville, Florida at considerable additional expense, the explosion of COVID cases in the Sunshine state forced them to cancel that idea as well and move to a similarly virtual convention plan as the Democrats held.
The president switched back to fear-mongering in his next post, hoping to frighten those few suburban housewives who still conform to his 1950s-era stereotype of a stay-at-home white mom with no career and a breadwinning husband in a single-income family.
Why would Suburban Women vote for Biden and the Democrats when Democrat run cities are now rampant with crime (and they aren’t asking the Federal Government for help) which could easily spread to the suburbs, and they will reconstitute, on steroids, their low income suburbs plan! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 22, 2020
Trump failed to notice that the suburbs are much more diverse than they were back then, that the “suburban housewives” are much more likely to be working or single moms, and that few families can survive on a single income in the Trump economy.
With those suburban moms increasingly on the frontlines of BLM protests, the electorate is changing at a much more rapid pace than Trump’s conceptions can keep up with.
The president continued his crusade against science with his next post.
The deep state, or whoever, over at the FDA is making it very difficult for drug companies to get people in order to test the vaccines and therapeutics. Obviously, they are hoping to delay the answer until after November 3rd. Must focus on speed, and saving lives! @SteveFDA — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 22, 2020
So desperate for a cure for the pandemic that his failures have transformed into an albatross around the neck of his re-election campaign, Trump grouses that the FDA still wants to ensure that any drugs approved for treating the coronavirus are both safe and effective despite his urgent need to be seen as doing something quickly to stop the spread of the pandemic.
The paranoia of his “deep state” accusations is palpable.
He extended his promotion of unproven cures and anti-scientific methodology by claiming to have studied many papers and spoken to numerous doctors — perhaps even some who don’t believe in alien DNA and demon sperm — who agree with his magical thinking.
Many doctors and studies disagree with this! https://t.co/fpLVJZMvHS — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 22, 2020
Of course, Trump could not let the day go by without making an unjustified attack on the same method of voting that he regularly has used for his own ballots.
In New Jersey they want you to certify that you asked for the Universal Mail-In Ballot that they sent you. But you never asked for it. Disaster in the wings! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 22, 2020
Yes, there is a “Disaster in the wings,” but only if a sufficient number of American’s fail to be allowed to express their preferences to rid the White House of your desecration of the premises and elect Joe Biden as our next president.
Make sure you are registered and vote in any manner you feel safest utilizing. Text VOTE TO 30330 to get details on the best options in your location.
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occupydemocrats--2020-08-22--Trump’s Saturday tweetstorm attacks Democrats with lies, paranoia, and COVID misinformation

As Donald Trump prepares for whatever he can salvage from the Republican party ’ s oft-disrupted national convention plans , one can easily see the themes he plans to disseminate in the multiple evenings of political boosterism ahead in the week to come .
It ’ s all laid out in his Twitter feed .
Let ’ s take a look at the president ’ s posts this morning to see what we can discern about how he intends to attack his Democratic opponents and pitch his record of malfeasance , incompetence , and disaster as worthy of being extended @ @ @ @ @ @ @ first tweet of the morning portends a continuation of his campaign of fear — a hoary GOP tradition dating back at least as far as G. H. W. Bush ’ s infamous “ Willie Horton ” ad that played on the demonization of Black Americans and suburban anxieties over crime .
Local Portland officials know full-well the dangers of the addition of shadowy federal forces in unmarked vans and tactical combat gear with no identifying insignias to the volatile situation on the ground in Portland , especially combined with the provocation of right-wing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Neither they nor Oregon state officials are likely to grant the president his wish , particularly since they ’ ve been trying to eliminate the DHS irregulars from the city for weeks now .
If the president believes this post helps his reelection cause , he is totally deluded since all it does is highlight his failures to respond to peaceful demands for human rights with compassion rather than force .
Trump next moved on to attacking Democrats on religion , playing to his evangelical base by portraying his opposition as godless heathens @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to stop Trump ’ s sabotage of the post office !
< Trump obviously knows nothing about the Pledge of Allegiance and how it arrived at its modern form .
The Pledge of Allegiance was written in August 1892 by the socialist minister Francis Bellamy and read in its original like this : In 1923 , the pledge was revised to add the words “ of the United States of America ” after “ Flag ” and was revised by Congress again in 1954 at the urging of President Eisenhower at the height @ @ @ @ @ @ @ phrase “ under God.
” The biggest problem with Trump ’ s tweet , however , is not his failure to learn the history behind the pledge , but the fact that his accusation is a complete lie , as MSNBC ’ s Kyle Griffin pointed out was confirmed by Snopes .
Failing to connect with his misbegotten lies , the president tried to bolster his flailing campaign in the crucial swing state of Wisconsin , by assaulting the Democrats for largely abandoning the site of their convention after being forced to hold @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s failures in addressing the spread of the COVID-19 virus .
This tweet is pretty laughable when one considers the fact that the GOP has essentially done the same thing to not one city , but two , having announced that they would mostly abandon the initially contracted location in Charlotte , North Carolina after the state ’ s Democratic governor insisted on strict masking and other preventive measures be implemented to prevent the pandemic from spreading further .
Having decided to move Trump ’ s acceptance speech to Jacksonville , Florida at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ COVID cases in the Sunshine state forced them to cancel that idea as well and move to a similarly virtual convention plan as the Democrats held .
The president switched back to fear-mongering in his next post , hoping to frighten those few suburban housewives who still conform to his 1950s-era stereotype of a stay-at-home white mom with no career and a breadwinning husband in a single-income family .
Trump failed to notice that the suburbs are much more diverse than they were back then , that the “ suburban housewives ” are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ single moms , and that few families can survive on a single income in the Trump economy .
With those suburban moms increasingly on the frontlines of BLM protests , the electorate is changing at a much more rapid pace than Trump ’ s conceptions can keep up with .
The president continued his crusade against science with his next post .
So desperate for a cure for the pandemic that his failures have transformed into an albatross around the neck of his re-election campaign , Trump grouses that the FDA still wants @ @ @ @ @ @ @ treating the coronavirus is both safe and effective despite his urgent need to be seen as doing something quickly to stop the spread of the pandemic .
The paranoia of his “ deep state ” accusations is palpable .
He extended his promotion of unproven cures and anti-scientific methodology by claiming to have studied many papers and spoken to numerous doctors — perhaps even some who don ’ t believe in alien DNA and demon sperm — who agree with his magical thinking .
Of course , Trump could not let the day @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on the same method of voting that he regularly has used for his own ballots .
Yes , there is a “ Disaster in the wings , ” but only if a sufficient number of American ’ s fail to be allowed to express their preferences to rid the White House of your desecration of the premises and elect Joe Biden as our next president .
Make sure you are registered and vote in any manner you feel safest utilizing .
Text VOTE TO 30330 to get details on the best options in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ what YOU have to say .
Scroll down and let us know in our NEW comment section !

As Donald Trump prepares for whatever he can salvage from the Republican party’s oft-disrupted national convention plans, one can easily see the themes he plans to disseminate in the multiple evenings of political boosterism ahead in the week to come.
It’s all laid out in his Twitter feed.
Let’s take a look at the president’s posts this morning to see what we can discern about how he intends to attack his Democratic opponents and pitch his record of malfeasance, incompetence, and disaster as worthy of being extended another four years.
Trump’s first tweet of the morning portends a continuation of his campaign of fear — a hoary GOP tradition dating back at least as far as G. H. W. Bush’s infamous “Willie Horton” ad that played on the demonization of Black Americans and suburban anxieties over crime.
Another bad night of Rioting in Portland, Oregon. A small number of Federal troops there to protect courthouse and other Federal property only (great job!). Wanting to be asked by City & State to STOP THE RIOTS. Would bring in National Guard, end problem immediately. ASK! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 22, 2020
Local Portland officials know full-well the dangers of the addition of shadowy federal forces in unmarked vans and tactical combat gear with no identifying insignias to the volatile situation on the ground in Portland, especially combined with the provocation of right-wing militias spoiling for a race war.
Neither they nor Oregon state officials are likely to grant the president his wish, particularly since they’ve been trying to eliminate the DHS irregulars from the city for weeks now.
If the president believes this post helps his reelection cause, he is totally deluded since all it does is highlight his failures to respond to peaceful demands for human rights with compassion rather than force.
Trump next moved on to attacking Democrats on religion, playing to his evangelical base by portraying his opposition as godless heathens.
The Democrats took the word GOD out of the Pledge of Allegiance at the Democrat National Convention. At first I thought they made a mistake, but it wasn’t. It was done on purpose. Remember Evangelical Christians, and ALL, this is where they are coming from-it’s done. Vote Nov 3! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 22, 2020
Sign the petition to tell Congress to stop Trump’s sabotage of the post office!<
Trump obviously knows nothing about the Pledge of Allegiance and how it arrived at its modern form.
The Pledge of Allegiance was written in August 1892 by the socialist minister Francis Bellamy and read in its original like this:
“I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”
In 1923, the pledge was revised to add the words “of the United States of America” after “Flag” and was revised by Congress again in 1954 at the urging of President Eisenhower at the height of the Cold War to add the phrase “under God.”
The biggest problem with Trump’s tweet, however, is not his failure to learn the history behind the pledge, but the fact that his accusation is a complete lie, as MSNBC’s Kyle Griffin pointed out was confirmed by Snopes.
Trump is lying when he says that the DNC removed 'under God' from the Pledge of Allegiance. Snopes: "On the national stage, the phrase 'under God' was used during the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance at the start of each night of the 2020 DNC." Trump's tweet is a lie. — Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 22, 2020
Failing to connect with his misbegotten lies, the president tried to bolster his flailing campaign in the crucial swing state of Wisconsin, by assaulting the Democrats for largely abandoning the site of their convention after being forced to hold the affair virtually due to Trump’s failures in addressing the spread of the COVID-19 virus.
Biden and the Democrats have greatly disrespected the Great State of Wisconsin by not even paying a small visit to Milwaukee, the designated site of the DNC. The State & City worked very hard to make sure things would be good. Not nice. Vote Trump Wisconsin! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 22, 2020
This tweet is pretty laughable when one considers the fact that the GOP has essentially done the same thing to not one city, but two, having announced that they would mostly abandon the initially contracted location in Charlotte, North Carolina after the state’s Democratic governor insisted on strict masking and other preventive measures be implemented to prevent the pandemic from spreading further.
Having decided to move Trump’s acceptance speech to Jacksonville, Florida at considerable additional expense, the explosion of COVID cases in the Sunshine state forced them to cancel that idea as well and move to a similarly virtual convention plan as the Democrats held.
The president switched back to fear-mongering in his next post, hoping to frighten those few suburban housewives who still conform to his 1950s-era stereotype of a stay-at-home white mom with no career and a breadwinning husband in a single-income family.
Why would Suburban Women vote for Biden and the Democrats when Democrat run cities are now rampant with crime (and they aren’t asking the Federal Government for help) which could easily spread to the suburbs, and they will reconstitute, on steroids, their low income suburbs plan! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 22, 2020
Trump failed to notice that the suburbs are much more diverse than they were back then, that the “suburban housewives” are much more likely to be working or single moms, and that few families can survive on a single income in the Trump economy.
With those suburban moms increasingly on the frontlines of BLM protests, the electorate is changing at a much more rapid pace than Trump’s conceptions can keep up with.
The president continued his crusade against science with his next post.
The deep state, or whoever, over at the FDA is making it very difficult for drug companies to get people in order to test the vaccines and therapeutics. Obviously, they are hoping to delay the answer until after November 3rd. Must focus on speed, and saving lives! @SteveFDA — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 22, 2020
So desperate for a cure for the pandemic that his failures have transformed into an albatross around the neck of his re-election campaign, Trump grouses that the FDA still wants to ensure that any drugs approved for treating the coronavirus is both safe and effective despite his urgent need to be seen as doing something quickly to stop the spread of the pandemic.
The paranoia of his “deep state” accusations is palpable.
He extended his promotion of unproven cures and anti-scientific methodology by claiming to have studied many papers and spoken to numerous doctors — perhaps even some who don’t believe in alien DNA and demon sperm — who agree with his magical thinking.
Many doctors and studies disagree with this! https://t.co/fpLVJZMvHS — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 22, 2020
Of course, Trump could not let the day go by without making an unjustified attack on the same method of voting that he regularly has used for his own ballots.
In New Jersey they want you to certify that you asked for the Universal Mail-In Ballot that they sent you. But you never asked for it. Disaster in the wings! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 22, 2020
Yes, there is a “Disaster in the wings,” but only if a sufficient number of American’s fail to be allowed to express their preferences to rid the White House of your desecration of the premises and elect Joe Biden as our next president.
Make sure you are registered and vote in any manner you feel safest utilizing. Text VOTE TO 30330 to get details on the best options in your location.
Follow Vinnie Longobardo on Twitter.
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occupydemocrats--2020-08-23--Trump announces new emergency treatment authorization and critics question his timing

Donald Trump ’ s contempt for science knows no apparent bounds .
With anyone else , such animosity would be a relatively harmless quirk or a perplexing eccentricity that could easily be dismissed as irrelevant in one ’ s own life .
For the President of the United States , however , such an antagonistic attitude towards the scientific method and the scientists who tirelessly toil away on research projects that can prove or disprove whatever theorem that they are testing can be as dangerous to the health of the American public as one could possibly imagine .
Trump ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ process and consensus was on full display this afternoon in a rare Sunday afternoon press briefing — one suspiciously timed to precede the launch of the Republican National Convention tomorrow — that the president used to announce the issuance of an emergency use authorization for convalescent plasma by the Food and Drug Administration to treat patients struggling with COVID-19 infections .
Unfortunately for public health and safety , it appears that the emergency use authorization is suspected of being issued under heavy political pressure from the White House in dire need of some @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Trump ’ s polling numbers in his re-election campaign keep dropping precipitously .
Until today , the FDA has indicated that the data in clinical tests of convalescent plasma therapy against coronavirus infections have not been particularly promising , which is why its guidance until today was that all tests of the treatment had to be coordinated through their clinical trials or one of two other emergency use programs .
Trump ’ s announcement today will allow a greatly expanded use of plasma therapy without any hard proof that the treatment is either @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the liquid remaining after red and white blood cells are removed from the blood of a person who has recovered from a bout of COVID-19 , leaving the resulting plasma rich in natural antibodies .
As a method of therapeutic treatment , some form or another of convalescent plasma has been in use since the early days of modern medicine in the first decade of the 2oth century .
After Trump announced that he was announcing the new emergency use authorization , he allowed both Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the FDA to make a few comments before allowing a pitifully few questions from the press .
Predictably , the questions went to two Trump-friendly news organizations , Fox News and OANN , the latter of which had not even been assigned a seat in the briefing room by the White House Correspondents Association that makes such assignments .
When even one of the reporters from his fawning news channels asked a question that began to undermine the significance of today ’ s announcement , Trump beat a hasty retreat from the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the FDA chief as to whether he was “ pressured ” to fast-track the emergency use authorization by the president .
The response to the president ’ s briefing today was mixed , with advocates for patients grateful that the easement of the bureaucracy surrounding the experimental treatment might make it more widely available for the most desperately afflicted patients while those who mistrust everything that Trump says or does – or who value the regulatory restrictions concerning drug efficacy and safety over political expediency — harshly regarded the president ’ s latest @ @ @ @ @ @ @ political gambit .
Whether convalescent plasma is the “ miracle cure ” that Trump has been wolf crying as imminent since the beginning of the pandemic remains to be seen as the data from clinical trials continues to pour in and be analyzed .
Whether the American public will regard Trump ’ s latest stunt in bypassing medical and scientific procedure at the FDA as beneficial or even the result of any effort on Trump ’ s part is another open question .
Most of us , however , long for the day @ @ @ @ @ @ @ analyze every statement by our president for its truthfulness and don ’ t have to wonder what the motive for any given action he takes may be .
Original reporting by Steve Herman at Voice of America and by Aaron Rupar at Vox .
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Donald Trump’s contempt for science knows no apparent bounds.
With anyone else, such animosity would be a relatively harmless quirk or a perplexing eccentricity that could easily be dismissed as irrelevant in one’s own life.
For the President of the United States, however, such an antagonistic attitude towards the scientific method and the scientists who tirelessly toil away on research projects that can prove or disprove whatever theorem that they are testing can be as dangerous to the health of the American public as one could possibly imagine.
Trump’s lack of respect for the scientific process and consensus was on full display this afternoon in a rare Sunday afternoon press briefing — one suspiciously timed to precede the launch of the Republican National Convention tomorrow — that the president used to announce the issuance of an emergency use authorization for convalescent plasma by the Food and Drug Administration to treat patients struggling with COVID-19 infections.
Unfortunately for public health and safety, it appears that the emergency use authorization is suspected of being issued under heavy political pressure from the White House in dire need of some good news on the pandemic front as Trump’s polling numbers in his re-election campaign keep dropping precipitously.
Until today, the FDA has indicated that the data in clinical tests of convalescent plasma therapy against coronavirus infections have not been particularly promising, which is why its guidance until today was that all tests of the treatment had to be coordinated through their clinical trials or one of two other emergency use programs.
Trump’s announcement today will allow a greatly expanded use of plasma therapy without any hard proof that the treatment is either effective or safe.
Convalescent plasma consists of the liquid remaining after red and white blood cells are removed from the blood of a person who has recovered from a bout of COVID-19, leaving the resulting plasma rich in natural antibodies.
As a method of therapeutic treatment, some form or another of convalescent plasma has been in use since the early days of modern medicine in the first decade of the 2oth century.
After Trump announced that he was announcing the new emergency use authorization, he allowed both Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar and Dr. Stephen Hahn the Commissioner of the FDA to make a few comments before allowing a pitifully few questions from the press.
Predictably, the questions went to two Trump-friendly news organizations, Fox News and OANN, the latter of which had not even been assigned a seat in the briefing room by the White House Correspondents Association that makes such assignments.
When even one of the reporters from his fawning news channels asked a question that began to undermine the significance of today’s announcement, Trump beat a hasty retreat from the briefing room as reporters shouted questions to the FDA chief as to whether he was “pressured” to fast-track the emergency use authorization by the president.
The news from Trump's presser is the FDA issuing an emergency authorization for use of convalescent plasma to treat Covid. CNN reports that "while there are promising signals from some studies, there's not yet randomized clinical trial data." Trump is still hunting for a miracle. — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 23, 2020
The response to the president’s briefing today was mixed, with advocates for patients grateful that the easement of the bureaucracy surrounding the experimental treatment might make it more widely available for the most desperately afflicted patients while those who mistrust everything that Trump says or does – or who value the regulatory restrictions concerning drug efficacy and safety over political expediency — harshly regarded the president’s latest example of stunt medicine as a strictly political gambit.
Note: "Many scientists and physicians believe that convalescent plasma might provide some benefit but is far from a breakthrough." "The evidence so far has not been conclusive about whether it works." Ex-FDA chief says it already is widely available.https://t.co/xCItimbWE5 — Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 23, 2020
A reporter just (finally!) revealed that convalescent plasma therapy is 100 years old and Trump is still lying about his administration doing ANYTHING of note about it. "This has nothing to do with politics." Really? LMFAO.#LoseEverythingWithTrump — Democratic Coalition (@TheDemCoalition) August 23, 2020
I knew it. Convalescent plasma been used in 90,000 ppl. Data's not been good, so FDA pulled back. Four days ago, FOX started harping that the FDA was blocking a miracle treatment. Yesterday, Trump repeated Fox. Today, he's going to hype what Fox hyped. https://t.co/qixUnsvtwD — Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) August 23, 2020
This is nothing new! Convalescent plasma has been talked about for months. He now wants #COVID19 victims to donate their plasma. This is just a sycophantic cheerleading rally to praise dear leader Trump. Womp-womp. No big deal! My family members won't be offering their plasma — Hawaii Shira (@HawaiiShira) August 23, 2020
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So Trump makes another announcement of a Covid treatment, acting like it's a new cure, but it absolutely is not new. The convalescent plasma treatment has been going on for months. Over 70,000 have been treated this way. He's just trying to make a show before the election. — Terry Blount (@TBlountPolitics) August 23, 2020
I am not even a scientist and I see the fallacy in your announcement about convalescent plasma.When you discuss a 35% survival rate, you are assuming that all 100 of the patients would have died without treatment. Come on man, we’re not that stupid! @realDonaldTrump — Mark Jones (@Mark25653440) August 23, 2020
Anyone who questions the rushed process of this convalescent plasma emergency authorization, or the effectiveness of the treatment itself, trump and his Vichy republicans will brand as “rooting for the virus.” A lame but predictable response. — Dave Simon (@hairyhilarity) August 23, 2020
Whether convalescent plasma is the “miracle cure” that Trump has been wolf crying as imminent since the beginning of the pandemic remains to be seen as the data from clinical trials continues to pour in and be analyzed.
Whether the American public will regard Trump’s latest stunt in bypassing medical and scientific procedure at the FDA as beneficial or even the result of any effort on Trump’s part is another open question.
Most of us, however, long for the day when we don’t have to analyze every statement by our president for its truthfulness and don’t have to wonder what the motive for any given action he takes may be.
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Original reporting by Steve Herman at Voice of America and by Aaron Rupar at Vox.
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occupydemocrats--2020-08-23--Trump announces new emergency authorization for virus treatment and critics question his motives


occupydemocrats--2020-08-23--Trump posts tweet claiming that he’s leading in polls that show Biden winning by a large margin

Send in “ those nice young men in their clean white coats ” because our delusional president , Donald Trump , should be getting ready for them coming to take him away sometime soon judging from his latest tweet .
After facing horrendous results in the lastest polls from even the friendliest of sycophantic media outlets , the president simply has decided to pretend that the numbers that every major polling organization has been reporting are simply not true , as if he can change reality with the simple force of his stating his belief in the opposite of what @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and tweets at his right-wing media allies , the actual facts make his claim seem as out of touch with the popular sentiment as his policies have been .
Here ’ s a chart from polling aggregator FiveThirtyEight.com that shows Trump trailing his Democratic opponent Joe Biden by double digits in the vast majority of major polls from the last four days and leading him in exactly none .
Trump ’ s blind faith in his popularity in this nation implies a failure to accept reality that is generally an indication of either @ @ @ @ @ @ @ renders him totally unfit for his sought re-election to the White House .
The president ’ s foolish electoral bravado may stem from his unverified conviction that millions of “ silent majority ” Trump supporters are going uncounted by the major polling organizations .
While each of these research organizations relies on a scientifically-balanced sample of the populace when conducting their polls , it is true that some people may feel such a stigma attached to being outed as a Trump supporter that they lie to the pollsters about their true voting intentions @ @ @ @ @ @ @ its own message about the toxicity of this president and why he ’ s even less likely to garner a popular mandate than he was before he demonstrated his total incompetence with his disastrous failure of a response to the COVID-19 pandemic in America , before his own sister denounced him as a “ cruel ” liar , and before the latest member of his 2016 campaign team was arrested for fraud .
In the end , America can let Donald Trump luxuriate in his delusional fantasies about actually being in a winning @ @ @ @ @ @ @ soothe his bruised ego , but only if we all turn out to vote in record numbers to repudiate his agenda of selfishness , evil , and fear .
Trump ’ s confidence may only be due to some unknown plan that he has to torpedo the Biden campaign in the weeks ahead , which is all the more reason for making sure that each and every one of us casts their ballot in the safest manner available in our state .
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Send in “those nice young men in their clean white coats” because our delusional president, Donald Trump, should be getting ready for them coming to take him away sometime soon judging from his latest tweet.
After facing horrendous results in the lastest polls from even the friendliest of sycophantic media outlets, the president simply has decided to pretend that the numbers that every major polling organization has been reporting are simply not true, as if he can change reality with the simple force of his stating his belief in the opposite of what they have found.
Whatever Trump thinks and tweets at his right-wing media allies, the actual facts make his claim seem as out of touch with the popular sentiment as his policies have been.
Here’s a chart from polling aggregator FiveThirtyEight.com that shows Trump trailing his Democratic opponent Joe Biden by double digits in the vast majority of major polls from the last four days and leading him in exactly none.
Trump’s blind faith in his popularity in this nation implies a failure to accept reality that is generally an indication of either dementia or a level of self-delusion that renders him totally unfit for his sought re-election to the White House.
The president’s foolish electoral bravado may stem from his unverified conviction that millions of “silent majority” Trump supporters are going uncounted by the major polling organizations.
While each of these research organizations relies on a scientifically-balanced sample of the populace when conducting their polls, it is true that some people may feel such a stigma attached to being outed as a Trump supporter that they lie to the pollsters about their true voting intentions.
However, such a stigma delivers its own message about the toxicity of this president and why he’s even less likely to garner a popular mandate than he was before he demonstrated his total incompetence with his disastrous failure of a response to the COVID-19 pandemic in America, before his own sister denounced him as a “cruel” liar, and before the latest member of his 2016 campaign team was arrested for fraud.
In the end, America can let Donald Trump luxuriate in his delusional fantasies about actually being in a winning position in this election if that helps soothe his bruised ego, but only if we all turn out to vote in record numbers to repudiate his agenda of selfishness, evil, and fear.
Trump’s confidence may only be due to some unknown plan that he has to torpedo the Biden campaign in the weeks ahead, which is all the more reason for making sure that each and every one of us casts their ballot in the safest manner available in our state.
Text VOTE to 30330 to get details specific to your zip code on the best options for getting and submitting your ballots.
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occupydemocrats--2020-08-23--The continuing saga of Kellyanne and George Conway’s daughter Claudia takes a new turn

When we last left the saga of Claudia Conway , the outspoken 15-year-old daughter of Donald Trump ’ s top political advisor Kellyanne Conway and her husband noted conservative attorney and Project Lincoln anti-Trumper George Conway , she was begging Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for an internship , bemoaning the fact that her mother was speaking alongside “ a homophobe and a rapist , ” and telling the world that she was going to set “ WAP ” as the ringtone that plays when she calls her mother .
Her controversial comments obviously caused the Conway household some distress , since @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with opposite views of Trump ’ s suitability for the presidency has been silent on social media all week long .
Yesterday , Claudia resurfaced on Twitter with a series of tweets that further expressed her frustration with her mother ’ s prominent position in an administration led by a man whom the teenager has said no one hates more than herself .
The triggering occasion for the latest series of confessional social media posts from the high school student was the announcement that her mom Kellyane would be a featured speaker at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ National convention , something that Claudia found extremely mortifying .
Claudia ’ s devastation was so great that she made a major , jaw-dropping announcement with her next tweet , an expression of her desire to seek legal emancipation from the guardianship of her parents .
The anguished daughter elaborated on the reasons for her desire for freedom in subsequent tweets while courting sympathy for her plight .
Claudia points to her mother ’ s role as Trump ’ s political consigliere as the source of much of her anguish , painting a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with greed and a lust for power at the expense of her children .
While her father is at least one of the leaders of the Never-Trump GOP movement , Claudia does not spare him from her devastating analysis of her family ’ s dysfunctions .
Apparently , even a conservative opponent of Trump is still a conservative and beyond the full sympathies of the progressively-inclined daughter .
Rather than the cry of an emotionally immature teenager , Claudia Conway ’ s posts display a keen awareness of the impact of her social @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Claudia Conway ’ s last tweet of Sunday morning that has many people wondering what will happen next in the Conway family drama , with an accusation that will have many trying to decide whether her comments are an exaggerated product of teenage angst or a confession that should attract the attention of social services .
If nothing else , once Trump is out of office and Kellyanne Conway is contemplating her next move , Hollywood and a lucrative Conway family reality show deal are sure to be in the offing .
Stay @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and find out what consequences Claudia faces for her latest public confessional .
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When we last left the saga of Claudia Conway, the outspoken 15-year-old daughter of Donald Trump’s top political advisor Kellyanne Conway and her husband noted conservative attorney and Project Lincoln anti-Trumper George Conway, she was begging Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for an internship, bemoaning the fact that her mother was speaking alongside “a homophobe and a rapist,” and telling the world that she was going to set “WAP” as the ringtone that plays when she calls her mother.
Her controversial comments obviously caused the Conway household some distress, since the progressive-oriented scion of the arch-conservative family with opposite views of Trump’s suitability for the presidency has been silent on social media all week long.
Yesterday, Claudia resurfaced on Twitter with a series of tweets that further expressed her frustration with her mother’s prominent position in an administration led by a man whom the teenager has said no one hates more than herself.
The triggering occasion for the latest series of confessional social media posts from the high school student was the announcement that her mom Kellyane would be a featured speaker at Trump’s version of the Republican National convention, something that Claudia found extremely mortifying.
i’m devasted that my mother is actually speaking at the RNC. like DEVASTATED beyond compare — CLAUDIA CONWAY (@claudiamconwayy) August 23, 2020
Claudia’s devastation was so great that she made a major, jaw-dropping announcement with her next tweet, an expression of her desire to seek legal emancipation from the guardianship of her parents.
i’m officially pushing for emancipation. buckle up because this is probably going to be public one way or another, unfortunately. welcome to my life — CLAUDIA CONWAY (@claudiamconwayy) August 23, 2020
The anguished daughter elaborated on the reasons for her desire for freedom in subsequent tweets while courting sympathy for her plight.
i have been using social media as an outlet to express my passions, individuality, and to shed light on some hardships. i have been vulnerable for a reason. thank you for supporting me. ❤ — CLAUDIA CONWAY (@claudiamconwayy) August 23, 2020
Claudia points to her mother’s role as Trump’s political consigliere as the source of much of her anguish, painting a highly unflattering portrait of a mother consumed with greed and a lust for power at the expense of her children.
my mother’s job ruined my life to begin with. heartbreaking that she continues to go down that path after years of watching her children suffer. selfish. it’s all about money and fame, ladies and gentlemen. — CLAUDIA CONWAY (@claudiamconwayy) August 23, 2020
While her father is at least one of the leaders of the Never-Trump GOP movement, Claudia does not spare him from her devastating analysis of her family’s dysfunctions.
as for my dad, politically, we agree on absolutely nothing. we just both happen to have common sense when it comes to our current president. stop “stanning” him — CLAUDIA CONWAY (@claudiamconwayy) August 23, 2020
Apparently, even a conservative opponent of Trump is still a conservative and beyond the full sympathies of the progressively-inclined daughter.
Rather than the cry of an emotionally immature teenager, Claudia Conway’s posts display a keen awareness of the impact of her social media presence.
i’m a savage lol i’m aware — CLAUDIA CONWAY (@claudiamconwayy) August 23, 2020
why am i trending on twitter right now— — CLAUDIA CONWAY (@claudiamconwayy) August 23, 2020
Still, it was Claudia Conway’s last tweet of Sunday morning that has many people wondering what will happen next in the Conway family drama, with an accusation that will have many trying to decide whether her comments are an exaggerated product of teenage angst or a confession that should attract the attention of social services.
https://twitter.com/claudiamconwayy/status/1297559015891795968?s=20
If nothing else, once Trump is out of office and Kellyanne Conway is contemplating her next move, Hollywood and a lucrative Conway family reality show deal are sure to be in the offing.
Stay tuned for next week’s episode and find out what consequences Claudia faces for her latest public confessional.
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