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Trump has evolved from virus to a cancer in the social and political scenes. He was diagnosed by experts to have malignant narcissism, long ago:
hap0206, You really do have stars in for eyes for the guy who so many experts in their fields
have seen for years is a rather forlorn, sick and decaying, sorry excuse for an American.
[...]
Going on seven years ago
Johns Hopkins’ Top Psychologist Releases Terrifying Diagnosis of President Trump
Zach Cartwright | January 28, 2017
One of the nation’s top psychologists just broke one of his profession’s ethics rules to give President Donald Trump a professional diagnosis.
John D. Gartner, a psychotherapist who teaches at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, told US News that he believes Trump has “malignant narcissism,” which is incurable, and different from narcissistic personality disorder. Gartner violated the “Goldwater Rule” of the psychology profession, in which a diagnosis of a public figure without personally examining them, and without their consent, is considered unethical.
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'The Most Dangerous Man in the World’: Trump Is Violent, Immature and Insecure, Psych Experts Say
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No doubt he is psychopathic. I join you, partner, in being proud to be a member of Trump's "political scum" club.
Resentment, yep. Sure seems like that is at least one of his problems.
LOL One plus for that party.
Top reply. hap is ill. Kelly knows. To link - WHY does Trump disparage military? - Trump Has Mocked the U.S. Military His Whole Life
"Trump, THE COWARD, under fire for alleged comments about veterans, has a long history of disparaging military service"
Egged on by his father, the U.S. president began expressing contempt for Americans who fight in wars as far back as high school, his classmates say.
By Michael Hirsh, a columnist for Foreign Policy.
[...]
Perhaps no one was less surprised last week when it was reported that U.S. President Donald Trump had called American war dead “losers” and “suckers” .. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/09/trump-americans-who-died-at-war-are-losers-and-suckers/615997/ .. than his former high school classmate George M. White.
The 74-year-old retired Army veteran was Trump’s superior—the first captain, or highest-ranking cadet—in Trump’s 1964 graduating class at the New York Military Academy. White said he witnessed up close Trump’s contempt for military service, discipline, and tradition, as well his ungoverned sense of entitlement, all helped along by his father Fred Trump’s generous donations to the school.
“No, those remarks absolutely didn’t surprise me. In my dealings with him he was a heartless, obnoxious son of a bitch,” White told me in an interview over the weekend.
[...]
Trump’s comments appeared to be in line with the attitude he reportedly evinced on Memorial Day 2017, when he visited the grave of 1st Lt. Robert Kelly, the son of his then-homeland security secretary and later chief of staff John Kelly. Standing at the grave of the younger Kelly, who died in Afghanistan in 2010, Trump reportedly turned to the secretary and said: “I don’t get it. What was in it for them?”
Trump and the White House have denied reports about his disdain for the sacrifices of the U.S. military. “If people really exist that would have said that, they’re lowlifes and they’re liars,” Trump told .. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-air-force-one-arrival-joint-base-andrews-md-september-3-2020/ reporters on Sept. 3. “And I would be willing to swear on anything that I never said that about our fallen heroes. There is nobody that respects them more.”
In the aftermath of the controversy over his demeaning of U.S. service members, Trump has sought to portray himself as an anti-war candidate who has faced down trigger-happy military service chiefs and will pull out of “endless wars” to keep soldiers safe.
[...]
Trump’s efforts at heroic self-branding also began at the academy, said White and Sandy McIntosh, another former cadet who knew Trump and his family well. Trump began wearing decorations and medals he didn’t earn, especially for academic or military achievement, and got himself placed at the head of the Columbus Day military parade in New York City as a cadet, White and McIntosh recall. “I did very well under the military system,” Trump told the Washington Post in January 2016. “I became one of the top guys at the whole school.”
[Malignant narcissism at it's worst]
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For classmates like White, Trump’s reported remarks are simply an echo of that long family tradition.
“It’s real simple. His grandfather dodged the draft in Germany and his father never went in. And when I came back from Korea, in 1972, I ran into him in New York City and told him where I’d been, he didn’t give a flying ripshit that I’d been to Korea. He made barfing noises,” White said. “I said, ‘Holy shit, you are a piece of work.’”
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B402, Science now suggests, no doesn't suggest, science says the terms male and female do not fairly cover the gender identity of millions of human brains.
"When did I deny science. And its just my opinion mind but I don't think I'm the one being immature.......
And people that don't agree with you aren't transphobic, people could care less if some men want to pretend they are a woman or not, but there is a time and place for everything.....And that's when the pearls start getting clutched......And the name calling like immature begins.....
So, what is your definition of a woman?
Dems have just gotten silly... "
IF YOU really care, while others here say no chance, i have felt sometimes you could change. Maybe there could be something, way down deep. Then shortly later you always smash that feeling. It wouldn't be the first time i've been badly wrong.
IF YOU do really care about the issues you profess to, like equity which is not only of material things, only then could YOU could have a chance of developing more empathy with people who do not have similar chemical/physiological/electrical makeups as most of us do.
With all of us it as a matter of conditioning. Some of us have a greater ability, or a greater desire to change - likely it's some combination of both. To get past our conditioning.
All of us were conditioned on the male-female thing. That was it science said. Male or female. Nothing in between.
Collectively we saw people with penises whose brain was not comfortable with the male label given at birth - hey, look he has a dick so he is a male and he has to act like a male acts. - as figures of ridicule and abuse. Same with those of us born with vaginas. Those humans are labelled at birth as females.
i feel now you could be thinking - how stupid i am in saying the labels male and female should not exist any more - but no, i am not saying that at all. Some feel a very small group known as researchers should ease away from the labels when doing their research work. That is another thing, not at all what this is about.
How about considering this: Rather than the labels female-male it could have been vagina-penis. Born a penis. Born a vagina. Weird, eh. Course if you were born a vagina you would need another word for that exit-entry point. And instead of penis that organ could have been labelled say ... a dangler.
LOL You see what i mean about conditioning. You are even conditioned to hearing male-female rather than female-male. One feels more comfortable, doesn't it. Male first. Males created that situation. Adam came first. Eve just from Adam's rib. Silly? Sure is.
That's conditioning.
You, B402, say 'if men want to dress and women and vice versa then who cares.' Let them.
That isn't what this is about either. You say
"When did I deny science. And its just my opinion mind but I don't think I'm the one being immature....... "
We have changed much, though still there are ignorant gay-bashers around.
i say IF you cannot feel true empathy for the millions of us whose brain is not exactly wired to
the gender label they were given at birth then you are denying science and acting immaturely.
Now spend some time on this post:
conix, The number of gender dysphoria seminars you have been to means nothing. Since clinical depression is classed as a psychiatric disorder and since most all people struggling with gender dysphoria would most likely suffer at times from serious depression it sounds perfectly normal for the common thread you claim exists to exist. Of course most all you would like to be adversely affected by that obvious meant-to-be dark and telling talking point of your crowd would not be any more impressed by it than i am.
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And still IF you really would like to care more start here again
B402 Re: fuagf post# 438367
Monday, March 06, 2023 9:57:11 PM
Post# of 476198
Those people need to get out more...
There have been calls for the words 'female' and 'male' to be phased out.
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and read around and down. Spend a couple of days, then perhaps reply.
B402, There you go again.
"Sotomayor and Kagan aren't liberal Judges? I liked Garland, alas, not on the SC
Of course they are. You are the one one who made the totally self-serving post:
To comment on the SC, two parties do their best to get the the most extreme person of their ideology on the
bench they can squeak by instead of centrist judges and wonder why we get split decisions down party lines.......
When one gets the advantage it time to bitch.....You all bring it on your self...
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A post which not only only served your agenda. A post which ignores the reality of which we have recently seen. Of course i was thinking of Garland, who was no way the way you described him above. You make stuff up which is not true. And your last sentence there. Rubbish. How the fuck did Obama bring it on himself that McConnell would break all tradition in doing what he did. You blurt nonsense because it has you feeling good. Your crowd. Not Dems. Here is the reality you deny every day in your robotic 'it's all on the Dems.' The fact. It's red.
[...]Trump/McConnell/Republicans have done a Putin-like job on your SCOTUS. Their lifetime terms makes it difficult
to undo. Not much you can do about it except get enough control of Congress to reform the f*ed-up situation.
[...]
The Court’s Republican majority isn’t simply handing down bold conservative policy decrees, it is undermining democracy itself.
Indeed, the GOP owes its control of the Court to an anti-democratic system that effectively gives extra votes to Republicans. Only three justices in American history were appointed by a president who lost the popular vote, and confirmed by a block of senators who represent less than half of the country. All three were appointed by Donald Trump, and all three sit on the Court right now.
Neither Congress nor President Joe Biden, however, are powerless against an anti-democratic Supreme Court. The elected branches have broad powers to rein in a rogue judiciary, or to limit the scope of at least some of the Court’s decisions. The greatest of these powers is court-packing .. court-court-expansion-packing-judiciary-act-13-seats-jones-nadler-markey-johnson" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">https://www.vox.com/22384461/supreme-court-court-expansion-packing-judiciary-act-13-seats-jones-nadler-markey-johnson — adding additional seats to the Supreme Court to dilute the votes of Trump justices who lack democratic legitimacy.
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That fact should be snuck into more than one election ad.
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Those of us who ended with only three are the bums. There were plenty of players to pick. Homa? Never again.
Now he'll win in the next month. Why would anyone have Eckroat instead of Straka or Scott or Bradley. Bum.
B402, You denial of science is as poor as your immature approach to the issue. See:
livefree_ordie, Your lack of empathy for all of those who have felt some discomfort with the gender assigned to them at birth is not surprising. You do come across as a rather unenlightened conservative. Why no understanding and acceptance even for for those who just enjoy dressing as one of the opposite sex to the one given them because of their exterior. Because of their physical appearance. You really do come across as one who dwells in the gutters of the past> And in the mire your personal conditioning.
"I hear it’s being replaced by “Tranny CSI” so you can keep watching."
What is the difference between transsexual and transgender?
[...]
Lime Time, You thunk like a lemon. Scholars once thought earth was the center of the universe, some non-scholars even now see it as flat. Sex orientation has moved us past you bipolar vision. Science is a wondrous study. Read. Consider Learn.
P - B402, Fuck off with your conservative bleat. It's a big deal because of your conservative culture war creation. The sexual continuum is a biological fact and your conservative camp's inability to cope with it is at the basis of the unhealthy extremist controversy your far-right has created. Your side's lack of realistic policy has resulted in your manufactured culture war.What else to do your Rufo .. https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=171727736 .. said. Administrators and athletes were handling it with little relative fuss until your rabid anti-trans zealots stirred the pot.
Attacks on Ohio transgender community a calculated political ploy to scapegoat the vulnerable
[...]
To India
No more usage of ‘houswife’, ‘hooker’ 'transexual'! SC launches handbook on combating gender stereotypes
16 Aug 2023, 02:48 PM IST
The Supreme Court of India releases handbook to avoid gender stereotypical terms used in the judiciary system.
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Gratuitous. Not true.
No i just decided to do what i said i would if you continued flouting our rules.
Of course arguments about immigration for and against are going to be all over the net.
Your reasoning sucks as much as it always has.
Get used to it, as am guessing you won't change.
Make a positive comment and post a link in support of AOC's support of the 'they shouldn't
trade' issue. Just one. Or am i right that you don't have even an ounce of integrity.
It would be easy for you, IF you had. It would come natural to any honest poster.
LOL He does look like a turtle no doubt, and appreciate the Tippy story as didn't know that one.
It must be that look, why else would i think that friggin' elephant looked like him.
B402 is a cold duplicitous prick. Easily one of our worst.
B402, More bs without evidence from you. Obama nominated a guy even Republicans saw as a moderate. Deny that. You really are a dick.
Fuck you, B402, you need a link to support what you said here about me
"Like the immigration argument at a time of inequity and decades of wage stagnation....and you answer is you're a racist......"
Putting aside it's a blatant lie, it is another wild assertion without prove...
And your saying we have said dems are not corrupted by corporate money .. another lie .. no, enough.. screw you
No. You shouldn't, but since rolling your eyes when hit by an argument you have
no answer for is your style it's expected you would just do it again. As you just did.
One more. This guy really has created an elephant than looks like the
pervert that helped Trump stack your Supreme Court. It's freaky that the country seen worldwide as the bulwark against anti-Democratic forces now has a highest court in the land that a guy like Putin could be proud of. As F6 used to say, "It's no joke."
See again, 'cuz there is a fact here worth passing on every time you look another in the eye, outside of when you are making love:
Trump/McConnell/Republicans have done a Putin-like job on your SCOTUS. Their lifetime terms makes it difficult
to undo. Not much you can do about it except get enough control of Congress to reform the f*ed-up situation.
[...]
The Court’s Republican majority isn’t simply handing down bold conservative policy decrees, it is undermining democracy itself.
Indeed, the GOP owes its control of the Court to an anti-democratic system that effectively gives extra votes to Republicans. Only three justices in American history were appointed by a president who lost the popular vote, and confirmed by a block of senators who represent less than half of the country. All three were appointed by Donald Trump, and all three sit on the Court right now.
Neither Congress nor President Joe Biden, however, are powerless against an anti-democratic Supreme Court. The elected branches have broad powers to rein in a rogue judiciary, or to limit the scope of at least some of the Court’s decisions. The greatest of these powers is court-packing .. https://www.vox.com/22384461/supreme-court-court-expansion-packing-judiciary-act-13-seats-jones-nadler-markey-johnson — adding additional seats to the Supreme Court to dilute the votes of Trump justices who lack democratic legitimacy.
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That fact should be snuck into more than one election ad.
IF B402 had any integrity he would marry issues he says he is concerned about with the congresspeople who are working to address the issues he says he cares about, yet he can't even have them holding hands. As you say he does nothing but heap scorn on them. It's as if he has locked himself into a situation of saying he likes dogs then when another pats his dogs them he shits on them. I've asked him what possible conclusion is there other than he is a poseur, but he doesn't come up with anything real to defend his totally contradictory position.
Would i be out of line even if i know nothing about it to say "All photoshops suck."
Why not a world where the only photos to be seen anywhere are the fair dinkum real photos.
I hate people sometimes.
‘No wannabe dictators!’: Donald Trump booed at Libertarian convention
"Holy shit!! I suspect the Libertarians themselves will have something to say about this idiocy:
p - “The reason I didn’t file paperwork for the Libertarian Nomination, which I would have absolutely gotten if I wanted it (as everyone could tell by the enthusiasm of the Crowd last night!), was the fact that, as the Republican Nominee, I am not allowed to have the Nomination of another Party.” he wrote.
p - “Regardless, I believe I will get a Majority of the Libertarian Votes. Junior’ Kennedy is a Radical Left Democrat, who’s destroyed everything he’s touched, especially in New York and New England, and in particular, as it relates to the Cost and Practicality of Energy. He’s not a Libertarian. Only a FOOL would vote for him!”"
Maybe some, but Trump is honest one says.
Jeers suggest Republican presidential candidate faces a challenge in broadening his appeal
David Smith in Washington
Sun 26 May 2024 14.16 AEST
Last modified on Mon 27 May 2024 11.30 AEST
rump booed and heckled at Libertarian National Convention – video
Donald Trump, the former US president, has suffered the rare humiliation of getting booed and heckled during a raucous speech to the Libertarian National Convention.
Trump’s rocky ride at a Washington hotel on Saturday night, including cries of “Bullshit!” and “Fuck you!”, underlined the challenge that the Republican presidential nominee faces to broaden his appeal both left and right on the political spectrum.
“The fact is we should not be fighting each other,” Trump pleaded. “If Joe Biden gets back in, there will be no more liberty for anyone in our country. Combine with us in a partnership – we’re asking that of the libertarians. We must work together. Combine with us. You have to combine with us.”
Muscle memory and a fight to inspire: on the campaign trail with Biden
Read more > https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/25/joe-biden-michigan-georgia-campaign
The appeal went down like a lead balloon as delegates booed, jeered and shouted insults. It was a stunning rebuke for a man who has become accustomed to cult-like rallies where his every word is cheered to the echo.
The Libertarian party, which prioritises small government and individual freedoms, typically gains 3% or less of the national vote but its members could yet prove crucial in swing states .. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/13/election-trump-biden-polls .. this November. Trump’s clumsy attempt to court them resulted in him scolding them instead.
Taking the stage, he was confronted by Libertarians, who have their own factional disputes, shouting insults and decrying him for running up huge federal deficits and enriching pharmaceutical companies with the coronavirus vaccine development. A smaller core of diehard Trump supporters clad in “Make America great again” hats and T-shirts chanted “USA! USA!”. One person unfurled a Palestinian flag.
[Insert: Sometimes you really oughta give credit where some is due
you guys. So big pharma isn't all good. They aren't all bad either. ]
A Libertarian party member shouts protests as Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump addresses the Libertarian National Convention in Washington. Photograph: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images
Amid this melee, Trump’s appeal to Libertarians to vote for him or join his campaign were repeatedly rebuffed. Referring to the four criminal indictments against him, he joked: “If I wasn’t a libertarian before, I sure as hell am a libertarian now.”
[Yeah. Funny fucking funny-not. That sort of sick humor again. ]
The ex-president quoted an article written by political commentator Deroy Murdock arguing that Libertarians should vote for Trump. The crowd again erupted in boos and jeers.
Trump retorted: “Only if you want to win. Only if you want to win. Maybe you don’t want to win. Maybe you don’t want to win. Only do that if you want to win. If you want to lose, don’t do that. Keep getting your 3% every four years.”
Trump went on to argue that Libertarians should make him their presidential nominee or at least vote for him in the election. Again there were boos and wails of derision. He went on: “The Libertarians want to vote for me and most of them will because we have to get rid of the worst president in history and together we will.”
[Says the asshole ex-pres. who is currently ranked about 2nd from the bottom by experts. Dick.]
The Republican promised that, if elected, he would put a Libertarian in his cabinet and others in senior posts. Again the crowd made clear its dissent. Ever the salesman, Trump prodded: “Pretty good. That’s pretty big.” But this time the old tricks did not work.
Again Trump chided them for getting 3% in past elections. Competing with chants, he said: “No, you want to make yourself winners, it’s time to be winners. You have a lot of common sense.”
Trump pressed on with his speech, saying he’d come “to extend a hand of friendship” in common opposition to Biden. That prompted a chant of “We want Trump!” from supporters, but more cries of “End the Fed!” – a common refrain from Libertarians who oppose the Federal Reserve. One person who held up a sign reading “No wannabe dictators!” was dragged away by security.
The ex-president claimed that much of his record was libertarian, citing examples such as tax cuts, slashing bureaucratic red tape, cancelling and defunding federal diversity, equity and inclusion programmes. He promised to appoint Libertarians to a taskforce to “rapidly review the cases of every political prisoner who has been unjustly persecuted” by Joe Biden’s administration.
Trump said: “As everyone knows, it will be my great honour to pardon the peaceful January 6 protesters or, as I often call them, the hostages. They’re hostages. There has never been a group of people treated so harshly or unfairly in our country’s history. This abuse will be rectified and it will be rectified very quickly.”
“And if you vote for me on day one I will commute the sentence of Ross Ulbricht.” The room, where many had been waving “Free Ross” signs, erupted in roars and whistles of approval. Ulbricht was the founder of Silk Road, an online marketplace for the sale of heroin, cocaine, LSD and other illegal drugs, who in 2015 was sentenced to life in prison .. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/30/nyregion/ross-ulbricht-creator-of-silk-road-website-is-sentenced-to-life-in-prison.html .
[OOps,con contradiction Trump, Who Wants To Execute Drug Dealers, Promises To Free Ross Ulbricht
[...]"We're going to be asking everyone who sells drugs, gets caught selling drugs," former President Donald Trump said
in November 2022 as he launched his 2024 presidential campaign, "to receive the death penalty for their heinous acts."
https://reason.com/2024/05/26/trump-who-wants-to-execute-drug-dealers-promises-to-free-ross-ulbricht/
Duplicitous, lying prick will say anything dependent upon whom he is talking to.]
With that the tide had turned in Trump’s favour and his gamble of addressing the convention was looking less disastrous than it first appeared. The crowd gradually became more muted and supportive.
[Guess no one there remembered what Trump
had said about the death penalty above. ]
The ex-president received further acclaim for pledging to sign an executive order banning federal agencies from censoring free speech, introduce record tax cuts, oppose the Green New Deal and drill for oil and gas, secure the future of crypto and bitcoin currencies and defend religious liberty and gun rights.
Still, not everyone was won over. When Trump said, “I want your support and again, you can either nominate us and put us in the position or give us your vote,” a chorus of boos rose again.
Afterwards one delegate, who gave his name only as Joe, said: “He’s full of shit.”
[Hurrah. At last.]
Glen Lewis, chairman of the Libertarian Party of Mississippi, said: “It was a lot of politicking. He came here to tell us to pull our people’s votes towards him using the fear of Joe Biden’s presidency. But real men and women vote on integrity.”
Lewis, 54, a military veteran who served in Afghanistan, added: “I went into the group of Trump supporters who could not defend him printing money. They could not defend him giving immunity to the pharmaceutical companies. They could not defend him not stopping wars. I will benefit him with not starting any new ones, but he did not end the ones that were there.”
Michael Fitch, 35, who has been a member of the Libertarian Party since 2012, said he appreciated Trump’s “bravery” in coming to the convention but has no intention of voting for him. “A lot of people like Donald Trump because they think he’s a conservative but he’s not a conservative,” he said. “He actually raised the deficit – he spent millions and millions of dollars.
“He capitulated to the pharma regime. Obviously his base, the Maga revolution, is very anti-lockdown but Donald Trump was the one who did Operation Warp Speed. We can’t let this guy off the hook: if we’re gonna come after [Anthony] Fauci and Biden, Trump’s on the same list. He’s just as complicit as the rest of them. I don’t think his base fully appreciates that and Donald Trump isn’t going to be the one to tell them it.”
Joe Gravagna, 77, a retired computer security worker from Westfield, Indiana, said he voted the Libertarian candidate in 2020 but might consider Trump this time. “I like his ideas on deregulation, de-weaponising the justice system and non-intervention. He’s less of a hawk. I don’t think he likes wars. Anybody worth their salt would not have left Afghanistan with $88bn worth of weapons left behind.”
[ HO HUM, Joe -- FACT FOCUS: Trump, others wrong on US gear left with Taliban
[...]Another estimate from a 2017 Government Accountability Office report found that about 29% of dollars spent on Afghan security forces between 2005 and 2016 funded equipment and transportation. The transportation funding included gear as well as contracted pilots and airplanes for transporting officials to meetings.
P - If that percentage held for the entire two-decade period, it would mean the U.S. has spent about $24 billion on equipment and transportation for Afghan forces since 2001.
P - But even if that were true, much of the military equipment would be obsolete...
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Among the committed Republicans in the room was Brandi Bohannon, 37, from Gulf Shores, Alabama. She said: “He’s different. No wars. He doesn’t get paid off by K Street. He’s honest. He’s feisty.
[AARRRRGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!! ]
“We’ve never had a border this open ever – what, 8m have crossed? These wars would have never happened under Trump. Russia would never have invaded Ukraine. Israel and Palestine wouldn’t have gone to war. Serbia and Bosnia look like they’re about to go after each other again. So scary times.”
[HOLY FUCK!! The ALL GOOd god couldn't do it, but Trump!!!]
Libertarians will pick their White House nominee during their convention, which wraps up on Sunday. Trump’s appearance also gave him a chance to court voters who might otherwise support independent presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr, who gave his own Libertarian convention speech on Friday.
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It's kind of unbelievable.
And he won't be again - ever - if enough Yanks care enough about America to tell him where he really should go.
Thanks for the info, i had no idea. LOLOL and the video is a beaut.
They sound even more divided than the Trump GOP is today.
Years ago i posted an article suggesting American Libertarians are into the clouds about
a utopian America (as B402 seems to be, i mean forget realities let's just whine
about how everything could be sooo much better) more than Libertarians
elsewhere. Haven't been able to find it since.
Agree, it looks weird. I almost made a comment on it too -- Like
It looks a big head on a small body. Unlike the big head on the big body now.
Thh GOP, and the American Libertarians who voted McCardle in as chairman. "GOP = Goons Of Putin"
[...]McArdle also spoke at the Rage Against the War Machine Rally, co hosted with the People’s Party, where she called
on a cut to all aid to Ukraine, and for Ukraine to surrender all Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine.[18]
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And see
Trump/McConnell/Republicans have done a Putin-like job on your SCOTUS. Their lifetime terms makes it difficult
to undo. Not much you can do about it except get enough control of Congress to reform the f*ed-up situation.
[...]
The Court’s Republican majority isn’t simply handing down bold conservative policy decrees, it is undermining democracy itself.
Indeed, the GOP owes its control of the Court to an anti-democratic system that effectively gives extra votes to Republicans. Only three justices in American history were appointed by a president who lost the popular vote, and confirmed by a block of senators who represent less than half of the country. All three were appointed by Donald Trump, and all three sit on the Court right now.
Neither Congress nor President Joe Biden, however, are powerless against an anti-democratic Supreme Court. The elected branches have broad powers to rein in a rogue judiciary, or to limit the scope of at least some of the Court’s decisions. The greatest of these powers is court-packing .. https://www.vox.com/22384461/supreme-court-court-expansion-packing-judiciary-act-13-seats-jones-nadler-markey-johnson — adding additional seats to the Supreme Court to dilute the votes of Trump justices who lack democratic legitimacy.
realistically, Democrats lack the votes to push that or other meaningful Supreme Court reform through Congress right now. Such a proposal would require changing or abolishing the filibuster, as it’s nigh impossible to imagine 10 Republican senators voting to diminish the power of an institution controlled by Republicans. And at least two members of the Senate’s narrow Democratic majority oppose filibuster reform .. https://www.vox.com/2022/1/19/22881837/senate-filibuster-vote-voting-rights-joe-manchin-kyrsten-sinema .
But just because court reform isn’t currently politically viable doesn’t mean it’s not worth considering, especially if Democrats somehow manage to pick up larger majorities in a future Congress. There are several options to deal with an increasingly partisan Supreme Court. Here are 10 of them.
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RFK Jr. Fails to Win Libertarian Party’s Presidential Nomination
Think i saw they've had about 16 ballots and still no candidate.
Edith Olmsted
Mon, 27 May 2024 at 8:16 am AEST·1-min read
Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. lost in the first round of voting for the Libertarian Party’s presidential nomination on Sunday, just two days after he spoke at the party’s convention.
RFK Jr. received the support of only 19 delegates, just 2.07% of the vote, according to CNN.
After losing, he urged libertarians to still vote for him in November’s general election, despite the fact that “we may not agree on every downstream issue.”
Donald Trump’s name was also briefly in contention, after he desperately begged for the nomination on Saturday. The former president was, however, disqualified because he had failed to submit nominating papers.
He defended the decision in a defiant post on his social media platform, Truth Social, Sunday evening.
“The reason I didn’t file paperwork for the Libertarian Nomination, which I would have absolutely gotten if I wanted it (as everyone could tell by the enthusiasm of the Crowd last night!), was the fact that, as the Republican Nominee, I am not allowed to have the Nomination of another Party.” he wrote.
“Regardless, I believe I will get a Majority of the Libertarian Votes. Junior’ Kennedy is a Radical Left Democrat, who’s destroyed everything he’s touched, especially in New York and New England, and in particular, as it relates to the Cost and Practicality of Energy. He’s not a Libertarian. Only a FOOL would vote for him!”
Trump was fiercely booed when he spoke at the event, and only received six write-in votes.
RFK Jr.’s vice presidential pick Nicole Shanahan was expected to speak at the event on Sunday, but will no longer be making her appearance following her running mate’s defeat.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
https://au.news.yahoo.com/rfk-jr-fails-win-libertarian-221600333.html
Only he could. Donald Trump is a national embarrassment for the umpteenth time
5/26/24 at 6:42 pm EDT by Jack
919 Comments
According to the US Code [36 U.S. Code § 301], the only people who may properly salute during the National Anthem are those in uniform and those members of the military and veterans not in uniform. All others are to stand solemnly with their hands over their hearts. Donald Trump is not a veteran, and without his red tie he's out of uniform. Oh, and it's "Amazing Grace" playing, not the National Anthem.
The video is again inside -- https://nationalzero.com/2024/05/26/donald-trump-is-a-national-embarrassment-for-the-umpteenth-time/
100% Seeing monkeys like you are, like that one, is worth a few cookies.
And i don't care how much X tracks me. Super video. Feeeeed meee. lol
B402, Since when do we all know. Off the top tell us about all the Republican mistakes you claim you know about.
Haven't seen even one from you. And how come i've missed all the posts you have made about Manchin.
Yeah, Manchin. One Dem i don't recall you ever mentioning.
"We all know the Republican mistakes, dems are just in denial about theirs...Shame
they couldn't get their chit together but you've been falling apart for decades now."
B402, In many ways you sound like many Libertarians we've seen through here.
Education has failed, it's all on the dems. What else can i whinge about people.
How Donald Trump Still Lives in the 1980s
"Cue the song 'What a Fool believes'. One has to have the heart of an extortionist/blackmailer,
or of one bent on retribution, to impute those traits to the political opposition and at the same
time believe that actions stemming from those traits are OK for a president."
The greed-is-good era was the last time his preferred public image was intact, and he’s been returning there in ways large and small as he sits through his criminal trial in Manhattan.
Donald J. Trump built Trump Tower in the early 1980s — “his golden time,” as one supporter put it. Don Hogan Charles/The New York Times
By Maggie Haberman
May 25, 2024
When his criminal trial finishes for the day, Donald J. Trump typically returns to the marble-and-gold triplex atop Trump Tower, the high rise he built in the early 1980s and used to establish a public image as a master builder.
It is the silver lining for Mr. Trump, as he spends his first sustained period of time in Manhattan since he moved to Washington in 2017. He passes the days in a dingy courtroom downtown, where he faces 34 felonies, listening to people from his old life describe him as a depraved liar who sullied the White House. At the end of it all, he could be sent to prison.
But in the evenings, people who have spoken to him say, he has been enjoying being back in the penthouse apartment that he moved into four decades ago. He still considers it home — and a permanent reminder of the easiest period of his life.
That period was the greed-is-good era in which Mr. Trump sold himself nationally as a titan of industry, despite a relatively small, and local, real estate portfolio. He had just built a glittering tower on Fifth Avenue, infuriating elites and demanding a tax break from the city. And it is the era he alludes to constantly, referring to 1980s cultural touchstones, including the news show “60 Minutes,” Time magazine and celebrities like the boxer Mike Tyson.
Trump Tower this month. Mike Segar/Reuters
Trump Tower in 1983. Jack Manning/The New York Times
It is also the last time Mr. Trump’s preferred public image was intact, and it soon came crashing down. The decade ended with a monthslong tabloid war in which people around the city chose sides between him and his first wife, Ivana. At the same time, the image-obsessed Mr. Trump was the subject of one investigative story after another, making clear he had far less money than it had seemed, had relied on his father for help and had managed his empire into something close to ruin.
It was in the ’80s that he was in a public dance over whether he wanted to be accepted by elites or throw stones at them, marked most visibly by his decision to smash Art Deco friezes that had been atop the building he razed to construct Trump Tower.
Yet despite the claims that the city’s power brokers all sneered at him, Mr. Trump was humored, indulged and even accepted by some of them. The ’80s were a time when, his path having been helped by his father’s connections in the corrupt Brooklyn political machine, he was developing relationships with publishing titans such as S.I. Newhouse and hanging out in the stadium box held for George Steinbrenner, the Yankees owner.
He had begun a budding and durable association with one of the city’s power brokers, the Manhattan district attorney Robert Morgenthau, a man whose proximity gave Mr. Trump a sense of comfort, according to former Trump Organization employees, and who Mr. Trump has said would never have stood for the charges against him.
“It’s absolutely true — that was his golden time, no question,” said Andrew Stein, who was the City Council president in the 1980s and still supports Mr. Trump after having briefly suggested he should bypass his third presidential campaign.
Even being president — moving to a city and a world where the rules and laws were foreign and uninteresting to him, and where the establishment rejected him before he arrived — rarely seemed to delight Mr. Trump the way that holding court at the 21 Club in Midtown Manhattan did.
The trial has highlighted the parts of Mr. Trump’s makeup that became clear in the decade that followed, in the 1990s, the ones less immediately apparent after the fame afforded him by his ghostwritten 1987 book, “The Art of the Deal.” The courtroom days have repeatedly touched on his penchant for payback, his love of fixers to defend him, his obsession with being seen as a playboy, his business practices at what is essentially a mom-and-pop company.
Mr. Trump with his first wife, Ivana, left, and the fashion designer Carolyne Roehm in 1987.
Bill Cunningham/The New York Times
But they have also underscored the reality that a man who spent years building an artifice about himself in the press and on TV managed to capture the presidency, when suddenly the question of what parts of him were real or fake was obscured by the power of the Oval Office, a giant government infrastructure and tens of millions of people who had cast ballots for him.
The era that shaped Mr. Trump was perhaps best encapsulated by the author Tom Wolfe in “The Bonfire of the Vanities,” in which a wealthy investment banker strikes a young Black man in a hit-and-run in the Bronx amid widespread racial tensions, and is ultimately tried in the borough’s beaten-down criminal courthouse as the tabloids devour the story.
[Insert: Be sure to catch the very last word in...
It was a building not unlike the one in which Mr. Trump has sat most days each week for six weeks, the fluorescent lighting beaming down on the decrepit benches and the letters reading “In God We Trust” over Justice Juan M. Merchan’s head.
Some days, Mr. Trump has eviscerated his lawyers and complained privately that he has no Roy M. Cohn, his original fixer and mentor and lawyer. Like Mr. Trump, Mr. Cohn was born into outer-borough privilege and then alternately reviled and accepted by powerful people. Mr. Cohn, a closeted gay man who tried to purge the federal government of gay people, died in 1986; he had AIDS but told people it was liver cancer.
The lawyer, whose connections included President Ronald Reagan, Rupert Murdoch and mobsters, had introduced the Queens-bred Mr. Trump to a new world and had taught him to always deny wrongdoing, to attack his attackers and to seek lawyers willing to do anything[/b]. But at the start of the ’80s, as he was gaining respectability himself, Mr. Trump already seemed ready to put some distance between himself and Mr. Cohn.
“All I can tell you is he’s been vicious to others in his protection of me,” Mr. Trump told the journalist Marie Brenner a few years before Mr. Cohn’s death. “He’s a genius. He’s a lousy lawyer, but he’s a genius.”
Mr. Trump essentially dropped Mr. Cohn, who had been indicted repeatedly, when he fell ill. It was later that Mr. Trump lionized Mr. Cohn, despite his own criticism of his mentor, as the ideal that his other lawyers, including the new ones he dealt with in Washington, should strive to live up to.
Mr. Trump and his mentor and original fixer, Roy Cohn, center, in 1981. Sonia Moskowitz/WWD, via Penske Media, via Getty Images
He never spent much time back at Trump Tower while he was president. Most weekends, he traveled to Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Fla., or to Bedminster, N.J. He said he was avoiding Manhattan because his motorcade would snarl traffic. But Manhattan had rejected him at the ballot box. Residents had even laughed in his face as he went to vote on Election Day in 2016; one told him, “You’re gonna lose!”
And so in September 2019, after consulting his tax lawyers, Mr. Trump rejected Manhattan right back, switching his residence to Florida. By the time he left office, 14 days after an attack on the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob, he was close to done trying to appease anyone but himself.
This month, the former president and presumptive Republican nominee has sought to troll the city he left, to show he can still dominate a place that, in the post-pandemic period, has continued to feel off-kilter.
On Thursday evening, he held a rally of thousands of people not in Manhattan but in the Bronx. The event was in a heavily Black and Latino neighborhood, in a borough where Mr. Trump went to college at Fordham University for two years, and where Mr. Cohn’s former law partner was once a Democratic Party leader. Mr. Trump had suggested to donors at a Manhattan fund-raiser days earlier that he might get hurt in the neighborhood, although he seemed quite pleased once he was there.
He denounced transgender girls and women competing in women’s sports, to cheers. He attacked undocumented immigrants, whose growing use of city services has been a flashpoint.
But the theme of his stories was the past. He talked about building Trump Tower, declaring, “Wherever I go, I know that if I could build a skyscraper in Manhattan, I could do anything.”
He lingered for several minutes describing how he rebuilt the defunct Wollman Rink in Central Park in 1986, a relatively small job that he nonetheless milked for intense media coverage. He detailed the copper pipes that had been stolen and the concrete wasted, and then he said he had found a way to turn the rink into something different.
“The biggest cost was demolition,” Mr. Trump said of his work. “Taking it down and then starting all over.”
Maggie Haberman is a senior political correspondent reporting on the 2024 presidential campaign, down ballot races across the country and the investigations into former President Donald J. Trump. More about Maggie Haberman
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/25/us/politics/trump-1980s-manhattan.html
We were talking about you there. Course you changed the subject to Dems again. And anyone who understands how many times Trump has lied to the American people know this of yours
"Sorry you feel that way, misrepresentation is relative, dems can be accused of as much too."
is rubbish. And the accusation Biden called for the assassination of Trump ..
https://nz.news.yahoo.com/no-biden-did-not-order-150801927.html .
Nope, Dems are not nearly into as much, or as viciously unAmerican, crap as Republicans are.
Are you aware at all about the nonsense you repeatedly come out with...
You'd be right there. i pay $161 a month. Would be some more, i cancelled my extras which included dental and eyes. Pensioner. Of course we don't have your Republicans who according to B402 are far more caring for the average American than Dems are.
"As someone who currently pays almost $ 1,000 per month for bottom of the barrel health insurance, I'd say that Medicare is a solid good thing about getting old. Or older, anyway."
Key points:
* The average annual cost of combined hospital and extras health insurance for singles is $3,017 for those under 36, $3,456 for those between 36 to 59, and $3,829 for those aged 60 and over.
* The average annual cost of hospital-only health insurance for singles is $2,257 for those under 36, $2,713 for people between 36 to 59, and $3,076 for those aged 60 and over.
* The average annual cost of extras-only health insurance for singles is $877 for lower level of coverage, $1,046 for mid level coverage, and $1,157 for higher level of coverage.
https://www.canstar.com.au/health-insurance/what-does-health-insurance-cost/
No. wasn't kidding. I'm gambling he won't do it, which will leave him among the least credible trolls we've ever had.
"Until you do that you are not even as credible as the more honestly conservative trolls we get here.
You've got to be kidding. "
A young schoolgirl, the kind people like B402 suggest don't exist anymore, stood to give me her
seat the other day. That never happened when i was younger, no matter how pissed i was.
"... Come to think of it, there are NO good things about getting old."
Well duh, now. And how about all the Republicans who have argued against getting a bill through.
It's interesting that on average it takes you maybe a minute to reply to a post regardless of how long it is. Regardless of how much content there is in it. Regardless of how much time one who was fairly considering the content might take. You know what that alone says about you.
B402, You expose your doublespeak hypocrisy yet again. You blame Dems for all and everything and never Republicans. You blame Pelosi for stopping that move when in fact she said she had moved to supporting one or more of the bills put forward. You blame Pelosi yet you do not post any reasons why she was in opposition to the bills put forward when she was. Tell us why she has opposed some of the bills. You don't know why, do you. You are a water-glider like conix.
You blame Dems yet we have never seen you post in support of the Dems who do support causes you blame Pelosi alone for not supporting. Where are your posts heralding the good works of AOC, and others. Where are your posts in support of far left of the Democrats in Congress. They don't exist do they. That in itself is clear proof of your poseur bullshit.
See again:
"Nancy may have done some good, but just take her derailing the bipartisan effort to end stock trading by congress to know where her loyalty really lies........"
And yet again an assertion without a supportive link. Seems we will have to start deleting your posts again for your continuing to copy a Trump thing. for continuing to flout local rules.
U.S. House Speaker Pelosi sees legislation on lawmaker stock trading 'pretty soon'
By Reuters
February 10, 2022 4:49 AM GMT+11 Updated 2 years ago
A jogger passes through a beam of sunlight in front of the U.S Capitol in Washington, U.S., January 18, 2022. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo Purchase Licensing Rights
WASHINGTON, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Legislation to tighten controls on U.S. lawmakers' financial transactions, including possibly banning them from buying and selling stocks, could be put on a fast track toward passage, House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Wednesday.
Weeks ago, Pelosi said the House Administration Committee was reviewing .. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-house-speaker-pelosi-says-banning-member-stock-trades-possible-2022-01-20 .. several suggestions from rank-and-file members amid calls for a new prohibition on stock market transactions.
"I assume that they'll have it pretty soon," Pelosi told reporters at her weekly news conference. She was referring to an Administration Committee bill.
The top House Democrat added that she also wants to see a tightening of fines on lawmakers who violate existing ethics laws on reporting investments and that any new controls on members of Congress would have to be extended to the entire federal government.
Pelosi singled out the need to include the federal judiciary.
Late last year, Pelosi had defended stock market trading by members.
But the practice has come under increasing scrutiny, in part as social media users pay growing attention to U.S. lawmakers' investments .. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-house-speaker-pelosis-stock-trades-attract-growing-following-online-2022-01-26 .
Some individual lawmakers' investments have raised questions over possible conflicts of interest given that Congress' oversight duties can allow it to get information ahead of the public, with some members facing investigation or charges.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Wednesday joined in calling for bipartisan legislation.
"I believe this is an important issue that Congress should address, and it's something that clearly has raised interest from both sides of the aisle in the past few weeks," he said in a Senate speech.
Democrats hold a majority in Congress, but House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy told Punchbowl News in January that he also backed the effort -- which precedes the Nov. 8 midterm congressional election that will decide which political party will control each chamber.
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell separately told reporters on Tuesday that he had not yet weighed a possible ban but would consider any legislation. He added that he does not own any individual stocks and advises members to invest via mutual funds, as he does.
At her Wednesday news conference, Pelosi sidestepped a question on whether lawmakers' spouses should be included in whatever new controls are written into legislation, saying she was leaving details to the committee.
But referring to the overall effort, she said: "It is a confidence issue. And if that's what the members want to do, then that's what we will do," adding, however, that crafting a bill will be "complicated."
Reporting by Richard Cowan, Susan Heavey, Doina Chiacu and David Morgan; editing by Andrew Heavens, Chizu Nomiyama and Jonathan Oatis
https://www.reuters.com/business/us-house-democrats-moving-ban-stock-trading-congress-punchbowl-2022-02-09/
B402, Your words mean nothing as long as you misrepresent present day political realities of America as you do. As i've just said you could, if you cared to, reestablish a shred of credibility with maybe a couple here IF you began to post articles in support of Democrat congress people who work every day to push those policies you claim to be in support of.
How silly your positions are when you know those Dems exist yet you don't have the integrity to acknowledge them. All you do is lump then in as part of the clique that, in your mind, has let the working class of America down.
And you could make the point that more Democrats support positions you claim to support than Republicans do.
Until you do that you are not even as credible as the more honestly conservative trolls we get here.