American presidential self-delusion extends all the way back to George W [the first one]
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J.P.Morgan puts Republicans who support Trump’s election lies into the donations deep freezer
JPMorgan Chase & Co will resume making political donations to United States lawmakers but will not give to Republican members of Congress who voted to overturn President Joe Biden’s election victory, according to an internal memo on Friday seen by Reuters news agency.
The bank was among many corporations that paused political giving following the deadly January 6 Capitol riots when supporters of former president Donald Trump tried to stop Congress from certifying the election…
The pause will last through the 2021-2022 election cycle, which includes November’s midterm elections, after which JPMorgan will review whether to resume contributions to the lawmakers concerned on an individual basis.
Wouldn’t it be special if Trumpo scumbags actually earned their subsidies by doing something useful…instead of the usual scam, relying on payoffs from business donors who mostly fear what stupidity these pimps will come up with, next?
Death threats are just another part of Trump’s political legacy
Georgia election official calls on Trump to stop inspiring death threats over election
As the impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump approaches, federal officials are investigating threats to attack or kill members of Congress. This comes in the wake of the Capitol riot, when a mob stormed the building where members of the House and Senate were preparing to certify the presidential election. Some rioters reportedly threatened the lives of elected officials in both parties…
These threats do not simply reflect increased levels of anger and depravity among individual Americans. Rather, they appear to be evidence of a more systemic use of fear and intimidation in U.S. politics, seeking to force fealty from Republicans and reinforce the authoritarian turn that defined Donald Trump’s leadership.
With the advent of social media and the Trump presidency, however, the risks for public officials have grown substantially. As a professor of human rights and a practitioner of democracy-building and the rule of law, this trend symbolizes the depth of deterioration of democracy in the U.S.
Reasonably calm article befitting reporting from The Conversation. Don’t kid yourself, though. The nutballs who worship Trump are capable of exactly the sort of acts of violence feared by Republicans…and anyone else trying to keep democracy as a reasoned alternative to autocrats and penny-ante fascists like Trump.
Unfit for office…
Thanks, gocomics.org
Bumble Bee responds to Fake President’s lie about protesters
Bumble Bee Seafoods responded Tuesday to President Donald Trump’s fishy claim that protesters chucked cans of tuna at law enforcement officers during civil unrest prompted by the deaths of Black Americans in encounters with police…
“Eat em. Don’t throw em,” the company said on its official Twitter account…
There have been no media reports of police being hit with cans of tuna.
Everyone knows Trump is the liar-in-chief. Even the obedient fools who follow him around to rallies and photo ops know that. Bigger the lies, the greater their idolatry swells.
“Dumber than a hoe handle” is the appropriate phrase, I believe.
When you get what you ask for!
Thanks, gocomics.org
Viewers will get tired of another season and change the channel, I hope!
I don’t need a lesson on how much so-called Reality TV sucks! We have a stunning example hiding in the basement of the White House. What we need – somehow – is to get through to the fools who believe we’re dealing with some tidy menu of “pick an item from column A” and “pick another from column B” and you’ll get dessert thrown in for free at the end of the meal.
What we’re facing is what appears to be an inevitable Second Wave of infection which will likely increase to 3000 new cases of COVID-19 per day by August and an undiminished death rate ready to march into Trump’s graveyard subdivision.
President Donald Trump and many governors are heralding a reopening of the American economy — even though a majority of states ending their coronavirus shutdowns this week have not met the White House’s most basic thresholds for testing, tracing and a prolonged drop in new cases…
“There’s this mindset that it’s like running a show and you’ve got to keep people tuned in, you’ve got to keep them interested and at some point you’ve got to move on and move on quickly,” said a former senior official at the Health and Human Services Department. “Viewers will get tired of another season of coronavirus.”…
Dr. Michael Mina, an epidemiologist at Harvard’s School of Public Health, warned of repeating an earlier cycle of the outbreak by opening up too quickly while the disease continues spreading through thousands of transmission chains. “As each of those communities begin to open up, we won’t have sufficient herd immunity for anything different to happen from what we saw in January or February,“ Mina said.
“What that means is as things open up, any one of those transmission chains or thousands of them could potentially ignite new outbreaks,” Mina said. “That’s how a second wave can potentially be more disruptive, more damaging and larger than the initial phase of the epidemic.”
Medical professionals, women and men whose life’s career is dedicated to building a healthy American nation confront shitheel politicians like Trump on a daily basis. Not all of their efforts ever make it into the eyes of the American public. And not all of that public is bright enough to differentiate between knowledge and science on one hand – and glad-handing phonies, political hustlers, on the other.
I admit that I’m continuing to defend my family’s life against the premise that STUPID will continue to rule this nation until at least the next Inauguration Day. Sadly, perhaps longer.
Trump owns grassroots conservatives — ignoranus flavor, that is!
Erik S Lesser/EPA
On Saturday, addressing the biggest annual gathering of US grassroots conservatives, Trump wondered aloud at it being “sort of a miracle” he has got so much done despite all he’s been through.
“Maybe it’s right there, right?” he asked, pointing to the heavens. “Thank you, God.”
The crowd loved it. Trump stayed away from a sceptical Conservative Political Action Conference in 2016 but now he is its sun king. Supporters in a palatial ballroom at the National Harbour leaped to their feet, whooping and cheering, many wearing “Make America great again” and “Keep America great” caps.
They roared their approval when, like a medieval monarch who has survived a bloody insurrection, Trump vowed revenge.
“They’re coming after me and we fight them back,” he said. “And now we’re going after them because we have no choice. We have to straighten out our country. But despite the best efforts of the leftwing fanatics, their scams, schemes, slanders, they’ve all been discredited, totally discredited.”…
In a characteristically rambling monologue, he seemed genuinely unable to comprehend how teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg beat him to the precious title of Time magazine person of the year.
But he finished his speech by hugging and kissing the flag – a familiar move which elicited a huge cheer from his devoted subjects.
You can assume the audience bent over to give their all to Il Duce.
Trump wants to add War Crime Bubbas to GOP re-election campaign
❝…After interfering with military justice in the case of Eddie Gallagher, and issuing pardons to Clint Lorance and Matthew Golsteyn, the president has reportedly been suggesting to allies that he’d like all three to become a fixture of his 2020 campaign…critics, including some military members and veterans, have suggested the pardons are a slap in the face to those who have served honorably and give soldiers carte blanche to commit heinous acts…
Trump clearly believes that campaigning with people like Gallagher—whose own ranks accused him of gunning down civilians, threatening to shoot other SEALs if they reported him, and stabbing a detainee to death—will help his reelection prospects. In the case of his base, he might be right…
I expect nothing less than obedience to their master’s voice from repeat Trump voters. Honesty, historic American values, the rule of law – all mean nothing to Trump’s “little people”. Followers of a hero without merit, courage, intelligence or principle. I’m afraid what most of them want is soothing syrup to coat their bigotry and fear.
Congressional Republicans’ accomplishments
Thanks, gocomics.org
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