Trump Disgraces America Every Day

[Noogies]

Originally Posted by Chicks

[B]Pootin's bid to stay in office until 2036 quickly backed by lawmakers ...

Donny has to be jealous, and looking for ways to replicate this. His GOTP would be all in.

Could Coronavirus hold the key?

[Chicks]

From Heather Cox Richardson last night:

Two days ago, I missed altogether something else that bears watching, and the fact that I missed it suggests it was barely covered—I’m generally all over the news. On March 9, 2020, the Russian Ambassador to the U.S. Anatoly Antonov met Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin and, according to the press release from the Russians, discussed “implementation of the arrangements reached by Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump during the summits in Helsinki in 2018 and Osaka in 2019.” There was virtually no coverage of this meeting in the United States; the only record I found was a readout from the Treasury Department, saying just that the meeting had happened. The Helsinki meeting is the one where Trump and Putin met for two hours alone with only their interpreters in the room. The Osaka meeting came just after Putin declared western liberalism obsolete.

Perhaps this meeting was nothing. But, coming as it does in the midst of Russia’s oil war with Saudi Arabia, and alluding to the two-hour conference that so irregularly cut all the usual advisors and staff out of the room, it would sure be nice to know a bit more about it.

All this to say that I am skeptical that all the intrigue over money and power that has plagued this administration since its beginning have suddenly ended as the president and his people turn their attention to the coronavirus. It has seemed to me he saw the pandemic as a media crisis rather than a public health crisis, and if so, there is no reason to think his priorities have changed.

As I say, perhaps I’m just too skeptical. But I suspect it’s more likely I’m a realist.

[Chicks]

Trump’s travel ban sidesteps his own European resorts
The president* announced new travel restrictions on Europeans as the coronavirus pandemic escalated, but a few key spots on the continent were spared.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/0...resorts-126808

Funny thing, that.

[Dondilion]

The lady is stretching. She is better served when she wears her history dress.

[Chicks]

Originally Posted by Dondilion

The lady is stretching. She is better served when she wears her history dress.

Besides being sexist, you CLEARLY underestimate Donny's deviousness.

Highly amusing, though, that you consider yourself to be even remotely qualified to critique Ms. Richardson. You're a buffoon.

[Chicks]

Leadership 101

https://twitter.com/i/status/1238861138147692544

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by Chicks

Leadership 101

https://twitter.com/i/status/1238861138147692544

One of these things is not like the others....

[Chicks]

Trump is increasingly irrelevant

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...ly-irrelevant/

Trump is incapable of mastering any level of detail or accurately conveying it to the public. He either cannot remember, or never understood, what he is supposed to roll out and instead often chooses to make himself look better. His penchant for ad-libbing (as he did with disastrous result during his Oval Office speech Thursday night) causes more chaos and confusion.

Trump has neither the mental capacity nor the emotional tools to lead in a crisis. Increasingly, the best course of action seems to be to let him blather, but then hand off matters to the real adults who can correct his misstatements or take action in the real national interest.

We certainly are not relying on Trump to help us get through this. To the contrary, we will come through this horror only by working around an entirely unfit president.

[Chicks]

National Security and Homeland Security Veterans:
Statement Endorsing Vice President Biden for President 2020

https://thesteadystate.org/

Our nation’s foreign affairs are in disarray; our alliances frayed, and our national prestige declining. Our approach to both friends and enemies abroad has been chaotic and unprincipled. Our credibility as a nation has been lessened. And, perhaps most importantly, our place in the world as a source of moral leadership has nearly been lost. As a country, we are increasingly less secure and less safe.

To be clear, those of us signing this letter do not agree on everything, or even most things, concerning foreign policy, defense or homeland security. Our policy views cover most of the spectrum, and many of us have often been in opposition, sometimes bitterly, with each other. But we have always been bound by profound patriotism, and a deep belief in our American democracy.

But the course of events since the 2016 Presidential election has been deeply troubling. It is not just policy differences. President* Trump, and his approach to leadership at home and abroad, has created an existential danger to the United States, its place in the world, and the values we share. His reelection would continue this downward spiral, and will likely have catastrophic results. Democracy itself is at stake.

[Chicks]

Donny’s new Mexico policy will slash US food supply during coronavirus crisis, farmers warn
“This threatens our ability to put food on Americans’ tables," the American Farm Bureau says

https://www.salon.com/2020/03/19/tru...-farmers-warn/

Because he’s such a stable genius. No doubt Fucker Carlson and the Faux “News” gang are praising this newest racist policy.