The deadbeat-in-chief went to El Paso. The big question was, would they arrest him for not paying the almost half a million bucks, he still owes the city from the rally he had there in February. What’s even more to the point is that Beto O’Rourke, who Trump is now attacking, had his own rally the same day as Trump’s and he paid his bill long ago. Is there anything Trump can do right? Pay what you owe, you fat slime!
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On a day when he should have been consoling the victims of the tragic shootings in El Paso and Dayton the Sick Liar in the White House was busy attacking anyone he perceived as enemies.
There was a news conference in which Mayor Ann Whaley of Dayton and Senator Sherrod Brown said that Trump was well received and did what a President should do. That’s as high praise as Trump has ever legitimately earned, so he attacked them for what he seems to think is aggressive campaigning against him. No, they didn’t kiss his ass. Yes, anything less is now considered an insult by the ego that walks like a man.
As soon as he was aboard Air Force One he lashed out at both Brown and Whaley, along with Joe Biden, Beto O’Rourke, Julian Castro and any other opposition forces available. This on a day when the only thing he had to do was comfort the victims and their mourners. The problem? Trump thinks that he should be comforted when someone else loses a loved one.
Then this degenerate coward had the consummate gall to tell the nation that there was no political will for the banning of assault weapons even though every poll runs over 90% for the ban. But we all know he has no real knowledge of the situation, He is eager to say anything, lie about any subject, as long as it has just entered the empty space where most of have brains.
Dealing with gun violence in his inaugural address Trump declared, “this carnage stops right here, it stops right now?” But it hasn’t, it has only increased, adding more murders as each day passes.
Last week Joe Biden gave a speech in Iowa that reminded us what it is like to have a grownup talking to the nation. He showed us what a President should sound like, what he should be saying at a time like this and how much of a difference there is between Donald Trump and what a president should be.
Maybe the most important thing a president does is to remind us what we should be as a nation. Trump has no idea what we should be, only what he wants to be, the richest, most powerful dictator in the world.
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And then, as if we needed it, he proves what a truly degenerate sleaze he really is. “This serves as a very good deterrent.” Those are Trump’s words in describing the scene of sobbing children who have not been picked up at school because their parents were arrested by ICE as they worked at a chicken farm in Mississippi. Yes, some of them were illegal aliens but they weren’t drug dealers, murderers or rapists. They were hard working, TAX PAYING fathers and mothers and when they were swept up there was no one to take care of their kids. Oh yeah! No one seemed to have planned for that, or did they?
For those innocents who thought this action was thoughtless on the part of the presidentially directed ICE, it was anything but, as evidenced by the Sick Liar’s statement above. This was carefully and diabolically planned. This was the deliberate work of a monster and the scum that kisses his ass. A monster that presently holds the office of President of the United States, a degenerate who thinks nothing of torturing children to get his way.
For those of you who are fans of this thing, this national disgrace, but who rebelled at being called “deplorables” by Hillary Clinton; you must face this fact. You are supporting something that only purports to be a man. You are willing to keep a sub-human infestation in our capital because it appeals to some awful part of you that denies your humanity.
I watched Trump’s latest rally as a background of pretty blonde women and fresh faced blonde men, obviously cast to send the message of a white supremacist President, cheered and chanted the Nazi-like slogans of a racist diatribe. All I could think of was; do any of these simple idiots understand how they are being used?
But back to chicken farming. Seven hundred illegal aliens were arrested at this place. Seven hundred hard working people with families! The law of the land firmly states that it is illegal to hire illegals to work for you. How many members of management were arrested in this raid? Did the owner’s kids get left at school with no one to pick them up? If you think the answer is yes, you are as full of shit as Trump. “This serves as a very strong deterrent.” Not for the guys who owned that chicken farm. They started a “Job Fair” before ICE had the trucks fully loaded. Who do you think will answer that ad? American’s don’t want those jobs and even if they did, they don’t pay enough. Tomorrow that chicken farm will be fully loaded and ready to roll and ICE will be salivating over another big haul. But are any of these Amuurricans considering the confused and terrified children that are the result of Trump’s raids?
The parents have no alternative. They have to work to feed these kids and house and clothe them. So they have to go back to work as soon as they get out of jail. The lucky ones will find their kids, but what about the others? There are still kids without parents from Trump’s first shot at this strategy. I’m talking about the border separation tragedy instituted by the savage brute in the White House.
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Jonathan Karl interviewed Mic Mulvaney over last week’s mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton. Why Mulvaney and not Trump? Well, the Fat Liar in the White House wasn’t available. After all, it was a weekend. That’s the time Trump stops watching TV long enough to get in a few rounds of golf at one of his clubs.
Mulvaney told Karl that he had spoken to the President and Trump wanted to know what we could do to stop this kind of catastrophe. Really? He doesn’t know? Either he’s lying again or he really is too stupid to breathe by himself. Everybody knows what to do, Donald. All it takes is the doing. Ask Julian Castro to draft a piece of legislation tightening the rules on who can and can’t buy guns. Create an informational protocol that forces the different areas of government to communicate on who is not eligible to own guns, remove automatic and semi-automatic weapons from the marketplace and start buying back all guns in the hands of those who no longer need them. The House will pass it. You pressure Moscow Mitch to put it on the table for the Senate and then you sign it. It’s that simple except for someone who doesn’t want to see it happen because he gets too much dough from the NRA and gun manufacturers. If the above was too difficult to absorb I’m sure you can get a much easier to understand version from Elizabeth Warren.
Mulvaney will do anything and say anything to protect Trump. That’s his job and he knows that it is his only value to Trump, who values nothing but what supports and protects him. It’s his ability to twist any negative comment in the press into a lie that makes Trump look good.
So when Karl asks if Trump should take any responsibility for his words attacking minorities, when he asks if Trump’s racial slurs have had any impact on those who are carrying out these racist attacks, Mulvaney has a basket full of phony reasons why this isn’t true. But it is. The Presidency gives Trump a responsibility for what he says that we don’t all have. Trump just doesn’t recognize this and so, no matter what Mulvaney says, Trump is as much at fault for these attacks as the men who carried them out.
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Rick Scott, former governor and currently Senator from Florida allowed himself to be conned into appearing on Meet the Pressthis Sunday. Some guys will do anything for a little TV face time, even allow themselves to look like fools and be humiliated in front of millions. So it was with Scott, who really wasn’t able to answer any of Chuck Todd’s questions without stumbling and stuttering and proving that he has no heart, no soul and certainly no balls. It was obvious that he was embarrassed by Trump’s behavior but like the rest of the GOP dullards he was afraid to say anything against Trump for fear that the Fat Liar would back some clown against him in the next GOP primary. The result was that Scott might as well have resigned from office because that performance will certainly bury him in any subsequent elections.
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Trump’s appointment of John Ratcliffe as Director of National Intelligence certainly headed this week’s list of oxymorons. Ratcliffe isn’t intelligent, he knows nothing about Intelligence and the man who appointed him is anything but intelligent. And just to prove my point he lied on his application for the job. He claimed that he imprisoned terrorists but that’s just not true. In 2007, when he was a federal prosecutor in Texas, he indicted a charity for sending funds to HAMAS. That’s like claiming you’re a mass murderer after you stepped on some ants.
But isn’t that perfect for a Trump appointee? The big liar is trying to breed little liars. The Retrumplicans would have been proud parents except that Ratcliffe has already fouled the nest by folding under the pressure and begging out of the appointment. Seems like even a cold stove was too hot for this clown.