Given the history of the party for the last few decades, do we really miss them? Who was it, dotbup, yesterday said Teddy was their last good president, Ike was okay (just remember who started Vietnam); with Nixon, Reagan, and certainly the second Bush, it was all just a setup for Trump.
Bloomberg Opinion Today: The only positive thing you can say about this garbage pandemic is that it reminds us what really matters: health, love, good Wi-Fi… Few things cure the blues as effectively as remembering how lucky you actually are and helping people who aren’t. You can and should donate to your usual charities, but Farnoosh Torabi points out there are also many ways to directly help people who may just be a couple of doors down from you.
To assess the legacy of Donald Trump’s presidency, start by quantifying it.
Since last February, more than a quarter of a million Americans have died from COVID-19—a fifth of the world’s deaths from the disease, the highest number of any country. In the three years before the pandemic, 2.3 million Americans lost their health insurance, accounting for up to 10,000 “excess deaths”; millions more lost coverage during the pandemic.
The United States’ score on the human-rights organization Freedom House’s annual index dropped from 90 out of 100 under President Barack Obama to 86 under Trump, below that of Greece and Mauritius.
Trump withdrew the U.S. from 13 international organizations, agreements, and treaties.
The number of refugees admitted into the country annually fell from 85,000 to 12,000. About 400 miles of barrier were built along the southern border.
The whereabouts of the parents of 666 children seized at the border by U.S. officials remain unknown.
Trump reversed 80 environmental rules and regulations. He appointed more than 220 judges to the federal bench, including three to the Supreme Court—24 percent female, 4 percent Black, and 100 percent conservative, with more rated “not qualified” by the American Bar Association than under any other president in the past half century.
The national debt increased by $7 trillion, or 37 percent. In Trump’s last year, the trade deficit was on track to exceed $600 billion, the largest gap since 2008.
Trump signed just one major piece of legislation, the 2017 tax law, which, according to one study, for the first time brought the total tax rate of the wealthiest 400 Americans below that of every other income group.
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America under Trump became less free, less equal, more divided, more alone, deeper in debt, swampier, dirtier, meaner, sicker, and deader.
On MSNBC Wednesday, longtime Republican strategist Steve Schmidt tore into the GOP for abandoning its principles for the blind pursuit of power.
“I do not understand how elected Republicans like Mitch McConnell, and even right-wing hosts like Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, do not say, today, there’s a line that can’t be crossed and that’s violence,” said anchor Nicolle Wallace.
“That line is in the rearview mirror, Nicolle,” said Schmidt. “They crossed it. They crossed the Rubicon.
We cannot be fantastical in wishing what has not happened has happened in our thinking. It has happened. We’ve watched it play out. We’ve watched Trump and his loony attorneys. We’ve watched the declarations of fraud.
We’ve seen United States senators, members of the House of Representatives, they all knew — they all know that Biden has won the election. What they’re doing is for no purpose other than power.
The Republican Party is an organized conspiracy for the purposes of maintaining power for self-interest, and the self-interest of its donor class.”
There has never been a force that has achieved power, or is within reach of achieving power in the next election, that’s been so hostile to the history, the foundings, the essence and the entire meaning of the country, as is this Trump and Trumpist movement that has taken over lock, stock, and barrel the Republican Party,” added Schmidt.
“It’s no longer dedicated to American democracy. It is dedicated to Trump and Trumpism and to his family, to defense of his indecencies, his autocratic manner, his corruptions, an apologist for the profound damage he has done.”
George Conway said Tuesday that the “biggest election fraud of 2020” is the lie President Trump won.
Conway, the husband of former White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, co-founded The Lincoln Project, an ant-Trump GOP group that worked to defeat the president in the 2020 election.
He made the remarks during an appearance on CNN.
“The biggest election fraud of the 2020 cycle — it didn’t happen in any voting booth or in any mail-in drop box,” Conway said on CNN. “It’s happening now with these people peddling the lie that he won the election.”
George Conway: “The biggest election fraud of the 2020 cycle — it didn’t happen in any voting booth or in any mail-in drop box — it’s happening now with these people peddling the lie that [Trump] won the election.”
pic.twitter.com/aTRENNiVcN
— The Hill (@thehill) December 9, 2020
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During the CNN interview, Conway criticized a Texas lawsuit seeking to halt electors in swing states from finalizing Biden’s victory.
“This is the most insane thing yet,” Conway said. “The notion that the Supreme Court is going to have a litigation where states are attacking each other’s rules for choosing electors is insane, and they’re not going to do that.”
Despite the president’s insistence that he won, some of his allies have acknowledged Biden’s victory.
Kellyanne Conway said in an interview with The 19th last week that “it looks like Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will prevail,” adding, “I assume the electors will certify that and it will be official. We, as a nation, will move forward, because we always do.”
Who does this elephant represent? It can’t be the 70 million who voted for the idiot-in-chief. It can’t be the 100-plus GOP congressmen who just signed a brief backing a bogus Texas lawsuit designed to challenge election results. It can’t be so many Q-Anon believers, who support the Idiot. It can’t be so many right-wing populists who say they will not get the vaccine. No, Stantisfernuthin’, you are harking to the GOP of Christmas’ gone and in many ways, never really were.
We have a bigger fish to fry, external threats. We tend to pretend that China is not a threat. We have to unify in a position that both China and Russia are threats with China being the much bigger one. Why do we continue to have our drugs made there! We know they steal our secrets, How? I don’t care how much one hates the other party, our internal concentration will destroy us!
Good news, everybody! SCOTUS (note how I use their ‘familiar’ name) refused to look at the latest steaming burger from Ken Paxton, which Gop losers are still rushing to have nailed to their foreheads.
I like the proposal in Congress that the 106 (or 125) members who have violated their Constitutional duties by signing onto this thing should not be seated, using a rule the Republicans passed after the Civil War to deal with traitors. Works for me!
lopaka almost 4 years ago
It ain’t the ol’ U…S.A any more.
Cheapskate0 almost 4 years ago
Given the history of the party for the last few decades, do we really miss them? Who was it, dotbup, yesterday said Teddy was their last good president, Ike was okay (just remember who started Vietnam); with Nixon, Reagan, and certainly the second Bush, it was all just a setup for Trump.
braindead Premium Member almost 4 years ago
How old? Maybe before the days of Nixon and Roy Cohn.
William Robbins Premium Member almost 4 years ago
Bloomberg Opinion Today: The only positive thing you can say about this garbage pandemic is that it reminds us what really matters: health, love, good Wi-Fi… Few things cure the blues as effectively as remembering how lucky you actually are and helping people who aren’t. You can and should donate to your usual charities, but Farnoosh Torabi points out there are also many ways to directly help people who may just be a couple of doors down from you.
Silly Season almost 4 years ago
To assess the legacy of Donald Trump’s presidency, start by quantifying it.
Since last February, more than a quarter of a million Americans have died from COVID-19—a fifth of the world’s deaths from the disease, the highest number of any country. In the three years before the pandemic, 2.3 million Americans lost their health insurance, accounting for up to 10,000 “excess deaths”; millions more lost coverage during the pandemic.
The United States’ score on the human-rights organization Freedom House’s annual index dropped from 90 out of 100 under President Barack Obama to 86 under Trump, below that of Greece and Mauritius.
Trump withdrew the U.S. from 13 international organizations, agreements, and treaties.
The number of refugees admitted into the country annually fell from 85,000 to 12,000. About 400 miles of barrier were built along the southern border.
The whereabouts of the parents of 666 children seized at the border by U.S. officials remain unknown.
Trump reversed 80 environmental rules and regulations. He appointed more than 220 judges to the federal bench, including three to the Supreme Court—24 percent female, 4 percent Black, and 100 percent conservative, with more rated “not qualified” by the American Bar Association than under any other president in the past half century.
The national debt increased by $7 trillion, or 37 percent. In Trump’s last year, the trade deficit was on track to exceed $600 billion, the largest gap since 2008.
Trump signed just one major piece of legislation, the 2017 tax law, which, according to one study, for the first time brought the total tax rate of the wealthiest 400 Americans below that of every other income group.
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America under Trump became less free, less equal, more divided, more alone, deeper in debt, swampier, dirtier, meaner, sicker, and deader.
It also became more delusional.
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https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/01/the-legacy-of-donald-trump/617255/
Silly Season almost 4 years ago
On MSNBC Wednesday, longtime Republican strategist Steve Schmidt tore into the GOP for abandoning its principles for the blind pursuit of power.
“I do not understand how elected Republicans like Mitch McConnell, and even right-wing hosts like Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, do not say, today, there’s a line that can’t be crossed and that’s violence,” said anchor Nicolle Wallace.
“That line is in the rearview mirror, Nicolle,” said Schmidt. “They crossed it. They crossed the Rubicon.
We cannot be fantastical in wishing what has not happened has happened in our thinking. It has happened. We’ve watched it play out. We’ve watched Trump and his loony attorneys. We’ve watched the declarations of fraud.
We’ve seen United States senators, members of the House of Representatives, they all knew — they all know that Biden has won the election. What they’re doing is for no purpose other than power.
The Republican Party is an organized conspiracy for the purposes of maintaining power for self-interest, and the self-interest of its donor class.”
There has never been a force that has achieved power, or is within reach of achieving power in the next election, that’s been so hostile to the history, the foundings, the essence and the entire meaning of the country, as is this Trump and Trumpist movement that has taken over lock, stock, and barrel the Republican Party,” added Schmidt.
“It’s no longer dedicated to American democracy. It is dedicated to Trump and Trumpism and to his family, to defense of his indecencies, his autocratic manner, his corruptions, an apologist for the profound damage he has done.”
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https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2020/12/the-gop-is-an-organized-conspiracy-that-exists-for-no-purpose-other-than-power-says-steve-schmidt/
Silly Season almost 4 years ago
George Conway said Tuesday that the “biggest election fraud of 2020” is the lie President Trump won.
Conway, the husband of former White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, co-founded The Lincoln Project, an ant-Trump GOP group that worked to defeat the president in the 2020 election.
He made the remarks during an appearance on CNN.
“The biggest election fraud of the 2020 cycle — it didn’t happen in any voting booth or in any mail-in drop box,” Conway said on CNN. “It’s happening now with these people peddling the lie that he won the election.”
George Conway: “The biggest election fraud of the 2020 cycle — it didn’t happen in any voting booth or in any mail-in drop box — it’s happening now with these people peddling the lie that [Trump] won the election.”
pic.twitter.com/aTRENNiVcN
— The Hill (@thehill) December 9, 2020
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During the CNN interview, Conway criticized a Texas lawsuit seeking to halt electors in swing states from finalizing Biden’s victory.
“This is the most insane thing yet,” Conway said. “The notion that the Supreme Court is going to have a litigation where states are attacking each other’s rules for choosing electors is insane, and they’re not going to do that.”
Despite the president’s insistence that he won, some of his allies have acknowledged Biden’s victory.
Kellyanne Conway said in an interview with The 19th last week that “it looks like Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will prevail,” adding, “I assume the electors will certify that and it will be official. We, as a nation, will move forward, because we always do.”
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https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/529429-george-conway-biggest-election-fraud-of-2020-is-lie-trump-won
rossevrymn almost 4 years ago
Who does this elephant represent? It can’t be the 70 million who voted for the idiot-in-chief. It can’t be the 100-plus GOP congressmen who just signed a brief backing a bogus Texas lawsuit designed to challenge election results. It can’t be so many Q-Anon believers, who support the Idiot. It can’t be so many right-wing populists who say they will not get the vaccine. No, Stantisfernuthin’, you are harking to the GOP of Christmas’ gone and in many ways, never really were.
fuzzbucket Premium Member almost 4 years ago
What happened to the conservative party we could trust? What kind of blackmail did that dingleberry Trump use to take over?
Stewb32 Premium Member almost 4 years ago
How about One person, One vote?
garydinkins2004 almost 4 years ago
We have a bigger fish to fry, external threats. We tend to pretend that China is not a threat. We have to unify in a position that both China and Russia are threats with China being the much bigger one. Why do we continue to have our drugs made there! We know they steal our secrets, How? I don’t care how much one hates the other party, our internal concentration will destroy us!
Cheapskate0 almost 4 years ago
Personal shout out to those who have not replied to John Adams 96 above.
Feel free to use this space to reply to JA96. I will make no further comment on the issue. This space is yours.
librarian4hire almost 4 years ago
Hey everyone!
חַג חֲנוּכָּה שַׂמֵחַ
Chag hanukkah sameach!
It’s the Reason for the Season!
mistercatworks almost 4 years ago
Remember when the GOP was a conservative political party and not a personality cult?
Kip W almost 4 years ago
Good news, everybody! SCOTUS (note how I use their ‘familiar’ name) refused to look at the latest steaming burger from Ken Paxton, which Gop losers are still rushing to have nailed to their foreheads.
I like the proposal in Congress that the 106 (or 125) members who have violated their Constitutional duties by signing onto this thing should not be seated, using a rule the Republicans passed after the Civil War to deal with traitors. Works for me!
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] almost 4 years ago
Trump is just Republicanism unleashed.