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A desperate narcissist is going to get his ass kicked in the 2020 election for these reasons.
Trump has a long history of quitting when he knows he is going to lose. However, Trump knows the presidency is protecting from being indicted. That may stop him from quitting the race. Trump is going to become extremely desperate and he will make mistakes, commit more crimes trying to stop the inevitable, He is going to lose.
Trump won the 2016 election through a series of freak events that will not repeat itself this time.
Clinton is not running this time. She had disapproval numbers ( because of years of propaganda) nearly as bad as Trump.
Many Sanders voters were pissed off at Clinton so they voted for Trump because of trade policies.
Many voters did not like Trump or Clinton, the majority of them voted for Trump. They decided to try something new. There was Clinton fatigue.
Many people who voted for Trump did not know him. Now they do. They thought Trump was a great business man who would not act so crazy once he became president.
Trump has not gained one voter since he became president, he has lost many voters. That math says he can't win.
People are locked in when it comes to their view of Trump. His base will stay with him and the rest of the American people have had enough of his bullshit. He can't change that.
The economy will probably get worse over the next year. That will hurt Trump badly.
The investigations will continue and pick up steam. This will be bad news for Trump.
The good news is Trump is going to lose the election. The bad news is, what will a desperate narcissist do in order to save himself?
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212388955
You didn't even know WTF a metaphor was until I posted an example.
Top five racist Republican dog-whistles
Sometimes, there’s more to a “gaffe” than meets the eye.
https://www.newstatesman.com/world/2012/07/top-five-racist-republican-dog-whistles
It's a metaphor which means it's not literally a dog whistle.
Dog whistle
Dog whistle is a type of strategy of communication that sends a message that the general population will take a certain meaning from, but a certain group that is "in the know" will take away the secret, intended message. Often involves code words.
Republicans say they want to make civil rights for gays a state issue, which is really just a dog whistle strategy for saying that they will refuse to grant equal rights on a federal level.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dog%20whistle
A metaphor is a figure of speech that, for rhetorical effect, directly refers to one thing by mentioning another.[1] It may provide (or obscure) clarity or identify hidden similarities between two ideas. Metaphors are often compared to other types of figurative language, such as antithesis, hyperbole, metonymy and simile.[2] One of the most commonly cited examples of a metaphor in English literature comes from the "All the world's a stage" monologue from As You Like It:
All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances ...
—William Shakespeare, As You Like It, 2/7[3]
This quotation expresses a metaphor because the world is not literally a stage. By asserting that the world is a stage, Shakespeare uses points of comparison between the world and a stage to convey an understanding about the mechanics of the world and the behavior of the people within it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphor
Policies, actions, executive orders.
No, it is bigoted nonsense for its sweeping generalizations and misinformation.
Not a credible statement, your posts confirm that you're too prone to fall for misinformation and conspiracy theories which would have had you all over Obama's ass. It's where the derangement syndrome came from.
Another dumb ass projection. Discussing race is NOT the same as talking and behaving like a racist. A distinction that clearly eludes you.
Please, Obama took up residence in your studio sized craniums for 8 years.
'Thanks Obama' for everything you didn't like or didn't understand, which is pretty much everything. And that birther insanity too.
Donald Trump's Campaign Is Becoming an Exercise in Public Insanity
If it doesn't work out in his favor, someone is always conspiring against him.
This is the only #1 hit ever written by a US Vice President. It was composed in 1911 by then-banker Charles Gates Dawes, who became VP under Calvin Coolidge in 1925.
And the rest of the story....
https://www.songfacts.com/facts/tommy-edwards/its-all-in-the-game
The lyrics were added in 1951 by the Brill Building songwriter Carl Sigman, who also changed the song's name to "It's All in the Game."
In The Carl Sigman Songbook, Sigman's son Michael writes:
The most interesting story-behind-a-song saga in Carl's career began with a phone call from a publisher. For years Carl had thought about writing a lyric for a tune he remembered from his classical training.
"The Dawes Melody," or "Melody in A Major," was a classical violin and orchestra piece composed in 1911 by none other than Charles G. Dawes, later Vice President of the United States under Calvin Coolidge. Dawes composed the piece in a single piano sitting. "It's just a tune that I got in my head, so I set it down," he told an interviewer.
He played it for a friend, the violinist Francis MacMillan, who liked it enough to show it to a publisher, and Dawes was officially a composer. The tune garnered some popularity when Jascha Heifetz used it for a time as a light concert encore. Early in 1951, Carl decided to try and write a lyric to the theme, believing that it was in the public domain, as free of complications as an old Mozart melody.
He knew the two-octave range would be a problem, but figured he could fool around with the melody, take out the high notes and make it more singable. By sheer coincidence, Warner Brothers publishing executive Mac Goldman called one day to ask Carl to consider writing a lyric to "The Dawes Melody," the copyright for which, it turned out, was owned by Warners.
Once Carl recovered from the news that the song was in fact already copyrighted, he rejiggered the tune and realized that a phrase from another song he was working on, a conversational phrase he'd plucked from the vernacular, was perfect for this tune. Once he plugged that title into its proper place, the lyrics to "It's All In the Game," to quote Carl, "wrote themselves."
It's All In the Game: Many a tear has to fall but it's all in the game All in the wonderful game that we know as love You have words with him and your future's looking dim But these things your hearts can rise above Once in a while he won't call but it's all in the game Soon he'll be there at your side with a sweet bouquet
And he'll kiss your lips and caress your waiting fingertips And your hearts will fly away
Carl also wrote this never-recorded intro, to be sung prior to "Many a Tear…" Where love's concerned At times you'll think your world has overturned But if he's yours, and if you're his Remember this… Unfortunately, the vice president never got to hear the lyric.
On the day Carl handed in the finished assignment, Dawes died of a heart attack, prompting Mac Goldman to quip, "Your lyric must have killed him."
Charles Gates Dawes was an American banker, general, diplomat, composer, and Republican politician who was the 30th vice president of the United States from 1925 to 1929. For his work on the Dawes Plan for World War I reparations, he was a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1925. Wikipedia
Born: August 27, 1865, Marietta, OH
Died: April 23, 1951, Evanston, IL
Charles Gates Dawes House
https://openhousechicago.org/sites/site/evanston-history-center/
I bike right by it. LOL! They used it for interior scenes for the TV series Empire and for the Playboy Mansion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Edwards
Although Edwards recorded a number of other songs, none came close to achieving the same level of success, though several of his songs later became hits for other artists, such as "A Fool Such As I" by Elvis Presley, "It's All in the Game" by Cliff Richard and the Four Tops (Eddie Holman's version of it was the B-side of his hit "Hey There Lonely Girl"), "Please Love Me Forever" by Cathy Jean and the Roommates (1961) and by Bobby Vinton (1967), and "Morning Side of the Mountain" recorded by Donny and Marie Osmond.
Died October 23, 1969 (aged 47)
He died from massive internal hemorrhaging due to esophageal varices linked to cirrhosis of the liver (alcoholism). This is per his death certificate.[7] Buried at the Quioccasin Baptist Church Cemetery in Henrico, Virginia.[8] His headstone says he was born 15 October 1922 but his death certificate says 12 October 1926. The 1930 census eludes that his correct birth year is 1922. The informant was his sister, Buena.
Edwards received a Virginia Highway Marker in 2008, erected near Pemberton Elementary School, off Quioccasin Road, in Henrico County. In July 2008, Richmond mayor L. Douglas Wilder signed a proclamation declaring October 15, 2008 "Tommy Edwards Day."
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news.
Monday, August 19, 2019
By Oliver Roeder
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/significant-digits-for-monday-aug-19-2019/
$0.001 per image
Amazon’s Rekognition facial-recognition software had been able to place faces on a scale for seven emotional categories — “happy,” “sad,” “angry,” “surprised,” “disgusted,” “calm,” and “confused.” Last week, Amazon AI engineers added an eighth category — “fear.”
The system can detect fear at a cost of $0.001 per image, with a discount for those totally normal people who analyze more than a million images. Alexa, I’m scared. [Wired]
5 linguists
Five linguists at the City University of New York are nearing the end of a three-year project to document the “New Yawk” accent and “to catalog just what makes the dialect so distinctively New York.” The researchers employed undergrads across the five boroughs to record interviews.
They found dropped R’s, nasally A’s, and “a trademark spin on the first vowel in words like coffee, making it cawfee.” Hey, undergrad, I’m walking heeah. [New York Daily News]
“$700 million a year”
President Trump wants to buy Greenland — which, if you’ve seen “D2: The Mighty Ducks,” you know was once covered with ice and which, if you’ve followed the climate news lately, you know is less true every day. Anyway, Trump said: “Essentially, it’s a large real estate deal. A lot of things can be done. It’s hurting Denmark very badly, because they’re losing almost $700 million a year carrying it.” [Associated Press]
US negotiator Charlie Brown says Taliban promises not to yank football away again
August 19, 2019
By Bull Winkle ?
DOHA, Qatar — U.S. representatives in continuing talks with the Taliban are confident of finally achieving the illusion of victory in Afghanistan, sources say.
Top American negotiator Charles “Charlie” Brown has told the State Department that the US is offering significant troop withdrawals in exchange for a Taliban agreement to cease supporting transnational terrorism.
Although experts note that the Taliban has a perfect record of tanking previous such accords, “We’re not about to let facts and history influence these negotiations” Brown is reported to have said.
According to attendees at the talks, Taliban lead negotiator Lucy al-Vanpelt gave Brown a seemingly heartfelt promise to honor the agreement, the latest in a series of commitments.
“I think it’s the sincerest promise yet,” said Brown, “Lucy’s also the center-fielder on our Kabul softball team and she always gives me good pitching advice, so I know she’s legit.”
Doug Schroeder, and analyst in Washington, acknowledged that the Taliban is reliably unreliable in keeping its peace promises.
“Beginning with cease fire violations with the Soviets in the 1980s, they’ve been amazingly good at duplicity and untrustworthiness with every American administration and the Afghan government since 2001, even after receiving concessions,” Shroeder said. “That’s just at the national level. We’d need a data scientist to crunch the numbers on locally broken promises.”
The only time the Taliban honored a cease-fire was once in 2010, when the group called a two-hour halt in fighting at a town in Herat Province so they could watch the season finale of “The Bachelorette,” according to Brown’s records. “A lot of Taliban are still angry about the outcome,” he said.
Regardless of history, US representatives remain hopeful. Brown said, “to use a football analogy, we’re ready to kick a field goal for the final points to win the game. I think Lucy really means it this time. This year I’m going to kick that football right over the goal posts!”
As Brown prepares for final negotiations, several American negotiators have reportedly scheduled sessions with Lucy for psychiatric help, a service she offers for five cents.
https://www.duffelblog.com/2019/08/us-negotiator-charlie-brown-says-taliban-promises-not-to-yank-football-away-again/?utm_source=Normal+Subscribers&utm_campaign=7fcbb3e90b-Duffel_Blog_Daily&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6d392bc034-7fcbb3e90b-23791221&goal=0_6d392bc034-7fcbb3e90b-23791221&mc_cid=7fcbb3e90b&mc_eid=cc8af7284a
Yeah, we have several of us who swim. I'm not a fisherman but there are edible salmon and perch swimming around in it.
Mostly I ride my bike north onto a bike path that begins about 3 blocks from me and goes North up along and behind the NU campus.
I'm good to go through most of Oct. Better riding than in April and May because cooler near the lake prevails big time in the Spring, but those 70-80 degree temps takes awhile to lose their warmth from late Summer into early Fall
This is the part that is going to get washed over....
80 degrees along the shore lately, cooler out where they measure it. Now is the peak summer temp for the lake before the long slide to when the winds of Nov. come early.
The increased water levels, highest since '86, will insure a violent washing over of bike and jogging paths and the apt named Lake Shore Drive.
Why this site calls it a 'sea' is beyond me. I have no success when I try to order Lake Michigan crab.
Chicago Sea Temperature
(Today) 19th Aug 2019
21.9°C / 71.5°F
https://www.seatemperature.org/north-america/united-states/chicago.htm
The submerged concrete on the left is the lowest of 3 levels leading down from our condo to our private 'beach'. It was not underwater a year ago.
The Army Corps of Engineers built that breaker with the sea gulls on it about 25 years ago. It saved our property and a condo across the street, and the street from being inundated and frozen over in the winter.
Amazing how it breaks the waves such that either side of the breaker the energy of the waves is dissipated for many yards.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/environment/ct-lake-michigan-high-water-levels-impact-20190801-jmhmy4ylgbatlavbny3lv26dui-story.html
Lake Michigan has swallowed up 2 Chicago beaches this summer. Experts say the worst could still be on the way.
By Tony Briscoe
Chicago Tribune |
Aug 01, 2019 | 2:24 PM
This graphic shows up better in the linked story
Water level by month
Monthly average surface water elevation
for Lake Michigan-Huron, in feet
They all know it was a bug and not one of my feetures.
More up to date…..
Notwithstanding the near constant gunfire, still building away.
https://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=411382&page=409
C'mon now, how many of your didn't read it as 'Field'?
3 glasses of a very good red wine can induce keyboard dyslexia.
But I do not drink at my fantasy football draft, until around the 10th round, which makes me very hard to beat.
I know, I figured the original line was more brutal though
Picture Trump, too long a red tie, tightening the knot, shaking his head, "Are you kidding? I got no respect back in the day.
I used to have to call Jeff Epstein to get the young strange when Ivanka, both of 'em, said no to me."
"There weren't as many houses or as much concrete around in the early '50s."
Really, you're kidding, we're not frozen in amber? LOL!
If I smell burning oil from another car stuck in traffic I'm transported back to Soldier Filed for the stockcar races my brother took me to in the same time period.
Soldier Field construction, c.1920
https://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=273147&page=40
Gee, what happened?
And that is the kind of behavior the criticism of which Trump's benighted supporters cry, whine, bleat,...... 'political correctness!!'
Fact is that the EOC regulations were made necessary because what morons consider political correctness is, mostly, morons being morons and behaving like assholes in the workplace.
S'why so many of us had to suffer through so many clumsy HR orientation/update videos depicting and warning against troglodyte words and behavior in our workplace; sadly lost on the same idiots who ignored 'play nice' when they were in the sandbox.
Along came a bigger & more racially and gender diverse sandbox, and they were fucked. One could see them sitting outside of the HR office because they just didn't 'get it'.
Faux grievances, we hear to this day, out the wazoo ensued. "I used to be able and say and do………", insert words and behavior that USED to risk a punch in the face.
When Republicans send us their people …
I don't know any of these people personally. Many may be fine people in other respects.
… they’re not sending their best. They’re sending their rapists, their criminals, their bribe-takers, their wife-beaters, their tax-evaders, their dead-beat dads, their security clearance failures, their adulterers, their misogynists, their homophobes, their religious lunatics, their racists, their Russia-colluders, and their pedophiles – and that’s just the ones in office.
On second thought, given what we’ve now seen of the GOP, the aforementioned probably are their best.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212383157
8. A (your post) walks into a bar.
Bartender says "What'll it be mister president?"
10. it's all those GOPer drugs
Where did you come up with this contrafactual statement?
Here's how blacks 'felt' toward Dems in last year's mid-term elections.
King is a 'magical thinker' with a weakness for hyperbolizing issues.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alveda_King
Views and activism[edit]
Pro-life activism[edit]
King is a pro-life activist. She had two abortions before adopting pro-life views following the birth of one of her children and her becoming a born-again Christian in 1983.[23] King frames the issue as one of racial discrimination;[24] she has referred to abortion as "womb-lynching"[23] and accused Planned Parenthood of profiting from "aborting black babies." [25]
King is director of the activist group Civil Rights for the Unborn and is director of Priests for Life's African American outreach.[25] In 1996 she denounced her aunt Coretta Scott King for her support for abortion rights.[26] Angela D. Dillard classifies King as among most prominent black figures in the American religious right.[27]
In 1994, according to Fox News, Alveda King has "long argued" that Dr. King was a Republican;[28] she later wrote that she regretted the statement, writing "I said that without having all the facts" and noting that King in fact was neither a Democrat or a Republican.[29]
After civil rights leader Rosa Parks died in 2005, Alveda King called Parks an inspiration for the pro-life cause, likening the injustice of racial segregation to abortion.[30]
Some mental gymnastics right there that should earn King a 'Biel' for its breathtaking nature.
2010 "Restoring Honor" rally[edit]
King spoke at Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally at the Lincoln Memorial in August 2010.[31][32] ABC News reported that in King's speech, she hoped that "white privilege will become human privilege and that America will soon repent of the sin of racism and return itself to honor."[26]
Opposition to same-sex marriage[edit]
King has spoken out against same-sex marriage. In 2010 she equated same-sex marriage to genocide at a rally in Atlanta, saying, "We don't want genocide. We don't want to destroy the sacred institution of marriage."[26] In a 2015 essay, she wrote that "life is a human and civil right, so is procreative marriage. . . . We must now go back to the beginning, starting with Genesis, and teach about God's plan for marriage."[33]
Personal life[edit]
King has been married and divorced three times. Her first marriage was to Eddie Clifford Beal, her second to Jerry Ellis, and her third to Israel Tookes. She has six children.[11]
Presidential politics[edit]
In 1984, King supported the Reverend Jesse Jackson for president.[15]
In 2012, King was a supporter of Herman Cain for president and defended him from sexual harassment claims, saying, "A woman knows a skirt-chaser" and "Herman Cain is no skirt-chaser."[20] She co-founded Women for Cain.[21]
King voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election, stating, "I pray that all polar opposites learn to Agape Love, live, and work together as brothers and sisters—or perish as fools. While I voted for Mr. Trump, my confidence remains in God, for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Prayers for president-elect Trump, Congressman Lewis, and everyone including leaders."[22]
I like my new board name. I TRY to provide my share of haws and I thank the righties who post here for the rich material with which to work.
But, but, it feeeeeels true to Donny Dotard.
Ironic, huh?
Where most of the tax revenue is generated and refuckin'distributed from....
'Mega-Regions' Produce 75 Percent Of US GDP
By Meagan Clark
?@MeaganKay
03/28/14 AT 8:54 AM
https://www.ibtimes.com/mega-regions-produce-75-percent-us-gdp-1564330
The three largest regions are “Bos-Wash,” “Chi-Pitts” and “So-Cal.” Other mega-regions of the dozen studied include “Hou-Orleans,” “Dal-Austin” and “Char-lanta.”
Bos-Wash is the 500-mile stretch covering the U.S. moneymakers of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, D.C. It’s home to 18 percent of the U.S. population (56.5 million people) and generates $3.75 trillion. So if Bos-Wash were its own country, its economy would be the fourth largest in the world, behind the U.S., China and Japan and ahead of Germany.
Chi-Pitts stretches from Pittsburgh through Cleveland, Detroit, Indianapolis, Chicago and Minneapolis, covering 50 metropolitan areas in total. Nearly 42 million people live in the mega-region and generate $2.3 trillion, about the size of Brazil’s economy, larger than Russia’s and smaller than the U.K.’s.
So-Cal covers Los Angeles to San Diego and includes Tijuana, Mexico, with a population of 21.8 million people, who generate more than $1 trillion annually. Excluding Tijuana, the mega-region’s economy is still bigger than Mexico’s but smaller than Spain’s.
Char-lanta includes 45 metropolitan areas, including Atlanta, Charlotte, Raleigh and Birmingham. More than 22 million people live within the region and produce more than $1 trillion in output, making its economy larger than South Korea’s and one of the world’s fifteen largest economies.
Denver-Boulder is a smaller mega-region Florida studied, with only 5 million inhabitants, but the region as its own country would still rank among the world’s 50 largest economies.
Together, all of the mega-regions produce more than $13 trillion.
Judicial review and Constitutional Amendments to the CONSTITUTION.
Out sick when those subjects were covered, were you?
And yet, clearly and completely full of shit on so many subjects.
Most & Least Federally Dependent States
Mar 19, 2019 | John S Kiernan, Senior Writer & Editor
https://wallethub.com/edu/states-most-least-dependent-on-the-federal-government/2700/
One big point of difference among state economies is the tax burden of the average citizen. This number varies greatly. But what are the reasons behind why some states tax their residents more or less?
If a state can afford not to tax its residents at high rates, there are multiple explanations. One is that their economic policies are sound and the state economy is doing well. But another is that the state gets disproportionately more funding from the federal government than states with harsher tax codes.
Americans have looked at federal assistance programs with growing scrutiny. According to a 2018 Rasmussen report, 61% of American adults think there are too many people receiving government financial aid. On the other hand, only 9% think not enough people are receiving funds. Regardless of overall trends, though, it is true that some states receive a far higher return on their federal income-tax contributions than others.
Most Federally Dependent States
Rank (1 = Most Dependent) State Total Score
1 New Mexico 85.81 2 3
2 Mississippi 81.46 7 1
3 Kentucky 78.76 6 5
4 West Virginia 72.34 4 12
5 Alabama 71.65 5 11
6 Arizona 67.03 11 4
7 Alaska 64.30 8 9
8 Montana 63.88 15 6
9 South Carolina 61.31 3 33
10 Indiana 59.74 9 14
11 Louisiana 58.11 27 2
12 Tennessee 52.21 21 7
How does the 14th Amendment protect abortion?
Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973), was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution provides a "right to privacy" that protects a pregnant woman's liberty to choose whether or not to have an abortion.
Something tells me that there are pickup trucks of the same vintage as in the movie plying the same back roads of LA, driven by guys who look like the locals in 'Deliverance'.
Be funnier with Trump in the picture with an audio of his bus tape.
It provides context as follows:
Now, inexplicably, a sitting president.
Led to payoff of Stormy Daniels within weeks of release.
YOUR president.
I know. Why do you think I posted....'One a yor neighbors'?
LMFAO! The next one in the que...…
Gee whiz, the hare is a cheeky wanker.
Trump pulled 'Major consideration is being given to.....' from the same 'out of my ass file' from which he retrieves 'people are saying', 'people are telling me' and 'I feel very strongly/we're going to take very strong action'.
Even Barr will have to tell his dimwitted boss that ANIFA is not in the same league as Neo-Nazis, the KKK and free range white supremacists.
Hey, maybe Trump will fire Barr for pointing out the obvious?
One a yor neighbors kilt him in the movie.....
You're simply incapable of responding with specificity and clear thinking to what is actually posted.