President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

She’s what passes for a Conservative Republican. But AOC is bad for the republic.

 

It’s different when Republicans say crap like that.

 

A friend who is a stewardess for American Air just texted us that a passenger on her last flight tested positive for COVID. The air crews tests aren’t back yet but American doesn’t require the crews to stand down and quarantine until the results come back. The crews mostly need the work and they don’t want to wait.

 

I don’t know what to make of this story. At best, it has a giant factual error threaded throughout. Missouri doesn’t have early voting.

Martin Rucker is a real and prominent person — and father of former NFLer Mike Rucker — so total fabrication seems off the table.

 

They got guns

 

Someone on Twitter checked the EXIF data … they were all taken minutes apart in different locations, and they all featured the same props.

 

Probably more accurate to describe it as a suicide attempt.

 

Just an amazing level of idiocy, irresponsibility and superficiality.

When guests arrived to the White House last Saturday for a triumphant event unveiling President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, their first stop was a small room in the White House basement.

After providing their names, phone numbers and dates of birth, each was taken one-by-one by a staff member from the White House Medical Office to a smaller room nearby. The door was shut, and out came the swab.

One swirl in the right nostril, one swirl in the left. As their names were written on a paper sleeve to contain the sample, they were told: "No news is good news."

So began what is now believed by many White House officials to be a nexus for contagion that resulted Friday in the positive tests of at least seven attendees, including the President himself, who is hospitalized in Maryland.

It is not known how or when Trump caught the infection that resulted in a positive test unveiled after midnight on Friday. But the string of people who attended last Saturday's event -- where few guests wore masks and social distancing was absent -- was growing.

On Friday, Republican Sens. Mike Lee and Thom Tillis both said they had tested positive. They sat three seats apart in the second row during the ceremony, separated by other senators.

The President's former counselor Kellyanne Conway said she, too, had become infected. She was seated directly behind the first lady.

The president of Notre Dame, where Trump's nominee Amy Coney Barrett teaches, was also diagnosed with coronavirus. He sat three seats away from Conway -- right behind the nominees' young children.
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The ceremony in the Rose Garden -- and Trump's Supreme Court nomination more broadly -- were once viewed as the President's best last chance to supplant coronavirus as this election's dominant theme. Instead, the tightly packed ceremony became the best illustration to date of the White House's own mismanagement of the crisis, including shrugging off best health practices and openly flouting the mitigation recommendations offered by his own government.
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Aides say Trump's resistance to measures like social distancing and mask wearing comes down mostly to optics. Trump has mocked the look of masks on journalists and his rival Joe Biden, and has lampooned Biden campaign events where attendees are socially distanced. His mindset has clearly transferred to those closest to him; during last week's presidential debate in Cleveland, members of his family were seen waving off masks offered to them by staffers.

In conversations with advisers, Trump has suggested that masked, socially distanced events would project weakness against the pandemic and could contradict his claims the outbreak is "rounding the corner."

He was particularly attuned to the look of his Rose Garden ceremony last weekend. When he saw television footage two weeks ago of Bill Clinton nominating Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the Supreme Court, he was taken with all of the flags in the Rose Garden and instructed aides to replicate the look.
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The idea of holding a scaled down ceremony, with fewer guests to accommodate social distancing, was never broached with the President, according to a person familiar with the matter, since it was automatically assumed the idea would be rejected out of hand.​

Inside one celebration that helped spread the virus across the U.S. government — CNN Politics

 

There are people who make a nice living starting a PAC and collecting donations and skimming 10 percent "for management fees" and spending the rest on ads. You just need to identify something that will get donors to open their wallets.
It's also how we end up with many Presidential candidates and people running for other offices, a strategist does polling on people and on messaging and if he finds something he can get people to donate for - they'll have a candidate - maybe it's just one rich guy who wants a candidate to speak about a pet issue. Money talks.

 

The picture of attendees at the ACB event is like those seating diagrams after an air disaster.

LOL