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zBrown

Ice climber
Sep 5, 2018 - 08:04am PT
Gets off to a very poor start Trump has created no jobs.


His list is below

•Almost 4 million jobs created since election.
•More Americans are now employed than ever recorded before in our history.
•We have created more than 400,000 manufacturing jobs since my election.
•Manufacturing jobs growing at the fastest rate in more than THREE DECADES.
•Economic growth last quarter hit 4.2 percent.
•New unemployment claims recently hit a 49-year low.
•Median household income has hit highest level ever recorded.
•African-American unemployment has recently achieved the lowest rate ever recorded.
•Hispanic-American unemployment is at the lowest rate ever recorded.
•Asian-American unemployment recently achieved the lowest rate ever recorded.
•Women’s unemployment recently reached the lowest rate in 65 years.
•Youth unemployment has recently hit the lowest rate in nearly half a century.
•Lowest unemployment rate ever recorded for Americans without a high school diploma
•Under my Administration, veterans’ unemployment recently reached its lowest rate in nearly 20 years.
•Almost 3.9 million Americans have been lifted off food stamps since the election.
•The Pledge to America’s Workers has resulted in employers committing to train more than 4 million Americans. We are committed to VOCATIONAL education.
•95 percent of U.S. manufacturers are optimistic about the future—highest ever.
•Retail sales surged last month, up another 6% over last year.
•Signed the biggest package of tax cuts and reforms in history. After tax cuts, over $300 billion dollars poured back in to the U.S. in the first quarter alone.
•As a result of our tax bill, small businesses will have the lowest top marginal tax rate in more than 80 years.
•Helped win U.S. bid for the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
•Helped win U.S.-Mexico-Canada’s united bid for 2026 World Cup.
•Opened ANWR & Approved Keystone XL and Dakota Access Pipelines.
•Record number of regulations eliminated.
•Enacted regulatory relief for community banks and credit unions.
•Obamacare individual mandate penalty GONE.
•My Administration is providing more affordable healthcare options for Americans through association health plans and short-term duration plans.
•Last month, the FDA approved more affordable generic drugs than ever before in history. And thanks to our efforts, many drug companies are freezing or reversing planned price increases.e reformed the Medicare program to stop hospitals from overcharging low-income seniors on their drugs--saving seniors hundreds of millions of dollars this year alone.
•Signed Right-To-Try Legislation.
•Secured $6 billion dollars in NEW funding to fight the opioid epidemic.
•We have reduced high-dose opioid prescriptions by 16% during my first year in office.
•Signed VA Choice Act and VA Accountability Act, expanded VA telehealth services, walk-in-clinics and same-day urgent primary and mental health care.
•Increased our coal exports by 60%; U.S. oil production recently reached all-time high.
•United States is a net natural gas exporter for the first time since 1957.
•Withdrew the United States from the job-killing Paris Climate Accord.
•Cancelled the illegal, anti-coal, so-called Clean Power Plan.
•Secured record $700 billion dollars in military funding; $716 billion next year.
•NATO allies are spending $69 billion dollars more on defense since 2016.
•Process has begun to make the Space Force the 6th branch of the armed forces.
•Confirmed more circuit court judges than any other new administration.
•Confirmed Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch; Nominated Judge Brett Kavanagh.
•Withdrew from the horrible, one-sided Iran Deal.
•Moved U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem.
•Protecting Americans from terrorists with the Travel Ban, upheld by Supreme Court.
•Issued executive order to keep open Guantanamo Bay.
•Concluded an historic U.S.-Mexico Trade Deal to replace NAFTA. And negotiations with Canada are underway as we speak.
•Reached a breakthrough agreement with the EU to increase U.S. exports.
•Imposed tariffs on foreign Steel & Aluminum to protect our national security.
•Imposed tariffs on China in response to China’s forced technology transfer, intellectual property theft, and their chronically abusive trade practices.
•Net exports are on track to increase by $59 billion dollars this year.
•Improved vetting & screening for refugees, and switched focus to overseas resettlement.
•We have begun BUILDING THE WALL. Republicans want STRONG BORDERS and NO CRIME. Democrats want OPEN BORDERS which equals MASSIVE CRIME.
Dropline

Mountain climber
Somewhere Up There
Sep 5, 2018 - 08:06am PT
Under current circumstances, Kavanaugh should not be confirmed. But, unfortunately, he will be.

The suggestion, however, that his law clerk, Zina Bash, is knowingly flashing a white power symbol is just ridiculous.
zBrown

Ice climber
Sep 5, 2018 - 08:17am PT

The president’s insistence all of this [Bernstein book] is made up simply doesn’t fly except with the most devoted cultists.


AND

There is no public record indicating that the Justice Department had been investigating Collins’ investments in the company prior to June 22, 2017

But it is clear that the investigation that led to the congressman’s indictment began after Trump took office — so the president is wrong to describe it as a “long running, Obama era” investigation.



Trump also described it as a “long running, Obama era” investigation, when in fact the investigation lasted longer under the Trump administration than it did under the Obama administration.

“The criminal investigation began in June of 2016, two months after the Federal Election Commission and the San Diego Union-Tribune questioned some of Hunter’s campaign expenses as potentially personal,” the DOJ said in a statement announcing the indictment of Hunter and his wife.

That means that the federal investigation of the Hunters lasted only about eight months under the Obama administration and extended another 19 months under the Trump administration, ending with the Aug. 21 indictment.

The indictment against the Hunters was filed by Braverman, who, again, was appointed by Sessions. “The indictment alleges that Congressman Hunter and his wife repeatedly dipped into campaign coffers as if they were personal bank accounts, and falsified FEC campaign finance reports to cover their tracks,” Braverman said in the DOJ press release on the indictment. “Elected representatives should jealously guard the public’s trust, not abuse their positions for personal gain. Today’s indictment is a reminder that no one is above the law.”
Dropline

Mountain climber
Somewhere Up There
Sep 5, 2018 - 01:01pm PT
Your argument assumes Bash knows, or knew, what white supremacy signs are. Prior to this dust up I had no idea that was a white supremacy sign. I’m guessing a lot of people don’t know.

(It looks like the post I was responding to has been removed.)
Tom

Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo CA
Sep 5, 2018 - 01:06pm PT
One minute, Trumplicans say that Robert Mueller is taking too long, and that he should wrap up his investigation now, before the elections.

Then, they say that the DOJ should not have indicted the two GOP Senators before the elections. They say the DOJ should have waited until after the elections, with voters unaware of the forthcoming indictments.


GOP =------> FOS





Bob Woodward's new book is consistent with what other people have said is going on in the White House:

Trump is crazy, and the people around him are babysitters and enablers.






The photo of Kavanaugh and his clerk appears to have been photoshopped.

Here's approximately the same image, from a video of the hearing.

dirtbag

climber
Sep 5, 2018 - 01:53pm PT
Following Woodward’s book, this is an extremely interesting account from a senior trump administration official who considers himself or herself a resistance member.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/opinion/trump-white-house-anonymous-resistance.html


I disagree strongly with this:


Given the instability many witnessed, there were early whispers within the cabinet of invoking the 25th Amendment, which would start a complex process for removing the president. But no one wanted to precipitate a constitutional crisis. So we will do what we can to steer the administration in the right direction until — one way or another — it’s over.

Applying the 25th amendment in good faith is not a constitutional crisis: it is a remedy described in the constitution.

That is what that provision is for!


But having unelected staff repeatedly and blatantly behaving insubordinately is a huge problem (though not necesssarily a constitutional one). I’m glad there are adults in the room, but they are not the president and are, even if we’ll intentioned, abusing their position.
Contractor

Boulder climber
CA
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 5, 2018 - 02:12pm PT

On Russia, for instance, the president was reluctant to expel so many of Mr. Putin’s spies as punishment for the poisoning of a former Russian spy in Britain. He complained for weeks about senior staff members letting him get boxed into further confrontation with Russia, and he expressed frustration that the United States continued to impose sanctions on the country for its malign behavior. But his national security team knew better — such actions had to be taken, to hold Moscow accountable.

This isn’t the work of the so-called deep state. It’s the work of the steady state.
The problem is that not one of "Steady State" has had the courage to resign in protest and expose the perpetrators in the light of day. Please have the balls to tell the base they support a traitorous criminal and that Congress is currently propping up an authoritarian despot to do further damage to our institutions- Cowardice on display.

If you support Trump beyond today's events then maybe Clinton was right about the "Deplorables".
EdwardT

Trad climber
Retired
Sep 5, 2018 - 02:25pm PT
kingtut

Sep 5, 2018 - 08:16am PT
^^^Even I know that is photo-shopped.

Another example of what you think you know being quite different from the truth.
dirtbag

climber
Sep 5, 2018 - 03:10pm PT
It’s basically a coup.

If trump really is so bad that he can’t do the job himself then congress or his cabinet need to step up and get him out.
Contractor

Boulder climber
CA
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 5, 2018 - 03:55pm PT
There is the very real possibility that Muller's report will Expose a conspiracy to impact the electorate in Trump's favor.

If so, every Presidential action, every nomination, every sign document, and every appointment could be constitutionally rendered null and void.

That's the Constitutional crisis that Congressional Republicans fear the most.
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Sep 5, 2018 - 04:08pm PT
No worries...
"...there are adults in the room."

:)
dirtbag

climber
Sep 5, 2018 - 04:26pm PT
t that's the thing; its not a coup. I have a certain level of empathy for guys like Mathias, less for others. The Frum piece Mighty quoted is spot on and frankly should have happened long ago. Time for patriots to standup and shove the traitors and/or greed-freaks out of the way to force a real constitutional crisis to remove trump and pence from office so the country can get on with the process of resolution to this trainwreck.

It is. We are seeing evidence that many/most higher level officials have seized power that rightfully belongs with the president. A General is making decisions about going to war, not the president. A senior advisor is deciding who we break treaties with, not the president. They may be taking actions that protect the public, but power has been systematically taken away from the president extralegally and his constitutional authority ignored. He is just too far out to lunch to realize it.

Just because I often agree with what they are doing does not make it not right. This is a terribly broken situation, and there will be bad consequences.

A Essex

climber
Sep 5, 2018 - 04:44pm PT
Putin is LOLOLOLOLOL
EdwardT

Trad climber
Retired
Sep 5, 2018 - 06:37pm PT
kingtut

Yea bro, you nailed it. An aide to Kavanaugh is flashing white power gang signs during the confirmation hearing....LOL.

You're a bad joke.

Your post was about it being photoshopped. It wasn't. Now you're trying to make my post about something else. Weasel move.

Nice work, dumbass.

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After the midterm election and the Dems have regained control of The House, Trump will take his ball and go home.
zBrown

Ice climber
Sep 5, 2018 - 06:41pm PT
It's like the Kingfish tryin' to outargue A.J. Calhoun, isn't it?


High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Sep 5, 2018 - 07:35pm PT
The motive behind writing that op-ed.

Food for thought...

rottingjohnny

Sport climber
Sands Motel , Las Vegas
Sep 5, 2018 - 09:19pm PT
The bad news , if you're a felon , is you can't vote...The good news is you can work for the trump administration...
Jon Beck

Trad climber
Oceanside
Sep 5, 2018 - 11:43pm PT
The motive behind writing that op-ed.

Maybe setting the table for removal by one means or another. Maybe to get the sane Republicans to think about removal, combined with an election disaster and the Mueller report, maybe Congress will take action.
lostinshanghai

Social climber
someplace
Sep 6, 2018 - 03:32am PT

dirtbag

climber
Sep 6, 2018 - 07:42am PT
The right way to deal with presidential fitness:


https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/09/doubt-the-president-write-a-memo-not-an-op-ed/569473/

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