[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

'Trump Won't Read Intel Reports but Likes Pictures: Officials
SHAPES AND COLORS

Current and former intelligence officials discussed Trump's short attention span with the NYT.

[...] the president has an extraordinarily short attention span and won't read papers, instead relying on gossip from conservative media and his friends such as former casino tycoon Steve Wynn. Joseph Maguire, the former acting director of national intelligence, reportedly told officials to remember Trump's reality-TV background and think of him as a performer who is always putting on a show.'

https://www.thedaily...ls-say?ref=home

'White House Shelves CDC's Church Reopening Advice in Fear of Backlash From Religious Trumpists, Says Report

[...] But there are reportedly no plans to release guidance for religious institutions because of a disagreement between the CDC and the White House on how restrictive the measures should be. Administration officials told the Post the White House didn't want to upset religious supporters and believed some measures, such as limits on passing of collection plates, were too strict.'

https://www.thedaily...report?ref=home

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'Expressing his skepticism about the utility of widespread coronavirus testing, President Donald Trump recently said: "When you test, you find something is wrong. With people."'

https://slate.com/ne...no-clothes.html

'Louisiana Cop Fired After Posting Racist Comments About COVID-19 and Black People

[...] Aucoin appeared to respond to a commenter who posted that the "virus was created to kill all the BLACKS is death."

"Well it didn't work," Aucoin posted shortly after. "How unfortunate."

[...] "I can't wait until the next part of the plan is implemented and they see what's in store for their kind," the now-fired officer wrote, according to screenshots shared by a Facebook user.'

https://www.theroot....bout-1843583990

'It is illegal for government employees to use their positions to engage in certain political activities. They are especially forbidden to engage directly in election campaigns while on the government payroll. The presidential counselor Kellyanne Conway appeared to violate this law—the Hatch Act—so persistently and flagrantly that she triggered an internal investigation. In June 2019, the investigation reported that indeed she had broken the law repeatedly and intentionally.

If Conway had been a career government employee, she would have been dismissed from her position immediately. By courtesy, however, the enforcement of the Hatch Act upon political appointees is left to the president directly. [...]

Conway mocked the finding to reporters. As one journalist read the recommendation to her, she replied: "Blah, blah, blah. If you're trying to silence me through the Hatch Act, it's not going to work. Let me know when the jail sentence starts."'

https://www.theatlan...ed-test/611911/

This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: 21 May 2020 - 06:47 PM

[Malankazooie]

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

'Trump Refuses to Wear Mask if Media Is Present

The president insisted he "wore one in the back area" during his visit to a Ford factory, but he "didn't want to give the press the pleasure of seeing it."'

[...] Pressed whether wearing a mask would set a good example, Trump replied that he thinks "it sets an example both ways." Handed a mask moments later, Trump held it up but didn't place it on. "I like it very much," he exclaimed. "Honestly, I think I look better in the mask!" Earlier in the day, the Michigan attorney general said she would consider suing companies that allow Trump inside their facilities without a mask, adding that the president will be "asked not to return to any enclosed facilities inside our state."

[...] Later, images emerged of Trump briefly wearing the mask.'





'Loud country music blared from a pickup truck. A supporter waved a flag portraying Trump as a muscle-bound GI Joe with a machine gun. Another held a sign portraying Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer—who has emerged as a bête noire of the right for her aggressive efforts to rein in the coronavirus outbreak—with a Hitler mustache.

It was a small-but-mighty welcome for a president making a legally fraught visit to the nearby Ford Rawsonville Plant, a facility that has been retooled to produce the same ventilators the president has suggested panicked governors may not even need.

[...] Unlike Trump, his supporters in Michigan didn't seem to think the president should withhold emergency aid from the state, especially in light of recent flooding that displaced tens of thousands of residents'

https://www.thedaily...chigan?ref=home

'Trump: "I Tested Very Positively" for COVID-19

[...] Telling reporters Wednesday that he thinks he has "another day" of his two-week regiment of the unproven anti-malaria hydroxychloroquine—which he says he's taking as a coronavirus prophylactic—Trump then boasted about his latest COVID-19 test. "And I tested very positively in another sense," Trump bellowed. "So this morning, I tested positively toward negative, right? So no, I tested perfectly this morning. Meaning I tested negative. But that's a way of saying it: Positively toward the negative."'

https://www.thedaily...vid-19?ref=home

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Trump Insists He'll Open Up Churches, Has No Power to Do So
'RIGHT NOW!'
"If they don't open this weekend, I will override the governors," the president said Friday.

Trump tried to stoke an ugly battle with governors over religion on Friday, demanding that every house of worship in the country reopen "right now" regardless of state rules. "Some governors have deemed liquor stores and abortion clinics as essential but have left out churches and other houses of worship," he said in a blustery, two-minute press briefing. "It's not right... In America we need more prayer not less."'

'Biden Tells Black Radio Host Charlamagne tha God That He "Ain't Black" if He Doesn't Know if He Supports Trump

[...] told a black radio personality that he "ain't black" if he's struggling to decide whether to back him or President Trump in this year's presidential election. Biden made his cringeworthy comment on The Breakfast Club episode that was posted on YouTube Friday morning. Co-host Charlamagne tha God took Biden to task over his record on racial issues and whether or not he'd pick a black female running mate. Toward the end of the show, Charlamagne said: "Listen, you've got to come see us when you come to New York.... It's a long way until November. We've got more questions." Biden replied: "You've got more questions? Well, I tell you what, if you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't black."'

https://www.thedaily...=cheats&via=rss




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'Later on Friday afternoon, Biden addressed his comments in a call with the US Black Chamber of Commerce [...] "I shouldn't have been such a wise guy. I shouldn't have been so cavalier."

[...] In November, he told a protester criticizing former President Barack Obama's record on deportations that "you should vote for Trump."

[...] a Trump campaign senior adviser, said in a statement that Biden "believes black men and women are incapable of being independent or free thinking."

[...] Biden also defended his calls to decriminalize marijuana, rather than legalizing it. He said before legalizing it, he wants to wait and see the results of studies on "what it affects, doesn't affect in long-term development of the brain. And we should wait till the studies are done."

"I think we got decades of studies from actual weed smokers though," Charlamagne cut in.

"Yeah, I do," Biden said. "I know a lot of weed smokers."'

https://www.cnn.com/...lack/index.html

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[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

'Trump's routing number revealed as press secretary announces he's donating quarterly salary to HHS

[...] The New York Times noted Friday night that as McEnany displayed the president's check to HHS at the briefing, she appeared to hold up the real thing and revealed Trump's private Capital One bank account and routing numbers.

[...] Officials did not respond to a request for comment by the Times, but the paper was told by an administration official that fake checks have not been used at the briefing in the past.'

https://thehill.com/...rYOWYVeEl2iGjU0

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'West Virginia postal carrier Thomas Cooper has been charged with attempted election fraud after he allegedly altered the party affiliation sections of eight absentee ballot request forms before delivering them [...]

Federal prosecutors said Tuesday that Cooper is accused of using a black ink pen to change the party affiliation status from Democrat to Republican on five of the applications. On the other three forms, he used the pen to circle the word "Republican."

[...] According to the federal affidavit, Cooper admitted to Cogar and a postal inspector that he did alter the mail-in request forms saying it was meant "as a joke." The state attorney general's office didn't find it so funny.

"Manipulating one's absentee ballot or application is not a laughing matter – it's a federal offense," Attorney General Patrick Morrisey said, according to the Miami Herald. "We must protect the integrity of the ballot box, and this demonstrates the aggressive action we will take to do so."'

https://www.theroot....lsbfNcWsNewATHk

'Trump threatens to "close down" social media [...]

Trump on Wednesday threatened to close down social media platforms after Twitter labelled two of his tweets "unsubstantiated" and accused him of making false claims.

Twitter targeted tweets in which the president said that mail-in voting would lead to fraud and a "Rigged Election" in November.

Under the tweets, Twitter posted a link which read "Get the facts about mail-in ballots" -- a first for the social network which has long resisted calls to censure the president.

In response, Trump fought back, tweeting that "Republicans feel that Social Media Platforms totally silence conservatives voices. We will strongly regulate, or close them down, before we can ever allow this to happen."

Trump repeated his allegations, saying "we can't let large scale Mail-In Ballots take root in our Country. It would be a free for all on cheating, forgery and the theft of Ballots.

"Whoever cheated the most would win. Likewise, Social Media. Clean up your act, NOW!!!!" he added.

The president also accused social media platforms of interfering in the last election, saying "we saw what they attempted to do, and failed, in 2016."'

https://www.ctvnews....Cpojqnw7G7o1QV8

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[Tsundoku]

[Malankazooie]

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

'Man loses office lease after viral video shows him calling police on black entrepreneurs using building's gym

[...] "I said, 'I'm sorry you thought I was being racist, but I was not. If you were a bunch of women, I would have done the same thing,'" Austin told the Tribune.'

https://thehill.com/...sScrWaRRo4Uy2xM

'an ally of Donald Trump said the president was furious about the coronavirus. "He was saying, 'This is so unfair to me! Everything was going great. We were cruising to reelection!'"'

https://www.thedaily...hances?ref=home

'Trump is set to announce an executive order against social media companies on Thursday

[...] The draft order, which was reviewed by CNN, targets a law known as the Communications Decency Act.

[...] It argues that the protections hinge mainly on tech platforms operating in "good faith," and that social media companies have not.

[...] The draft order also accuses social media platforms of "invoking inconsistent, irrational, and groundless justifications to censor or otherwise punish Americans' speech here at home."'

https://www.cnn.com/...rder/index.html

'Trump is throwing a tantrum in the form of an executive order that declares Twitter and Facebook are the "functional equivalent of a traditional public forum" and should "not infringe on protected speech." The president seems to have bypassed the typical interagency review process in issuing his new rule. This means the insanely overreaching order (read the leaked draft here) wasn't written with an eye toward conforming to federal law or constitutional protections of speech and commerce. And make no mistake: the draft order, when it manages to be coherent, is insanely unconstitutional.

[...] It's an Orwellian document, defining federal government regulation of Americans' speech as "free speech" and private questioning of government authority as "censorship." In Trump's formulation, private companies can censor the most powerful person in the country but not the other way around.

[...] after years of downplaying the idea that foreign actors used social media in an attempt to influence the 2016 election, Trump now opportunistically claims that the U.S. government must have power over these platforms to stop the scourge of "disinformation from foreign governments."'

[...] Trump wants the FCC to determine the conditions under which content moderation will be considered "deceptive, pretextual, or inconsistent with a provider's terms of service"'

https://reason.com/2...s-a-total-mess/

This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: 28 May 2020 - 08:36 PM

[Tiste Simeon]

What a whiny pathetic piece of human garbage he is...

[Malankazooie]

[Malankazooie]

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

[Aptorian]

Epic Sax Guy is the hero we need right now.

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

'Trump, agitated and distressed[, ...] told the nation's governors in a video teleconference Monday to aggressively target violent protesters he said would only respond to a show of force.

"You have to dominate or you'll look like a bunch of jerks"'

[...] "It's a movement, if you don't put it down it will get worse and worse," Trump said. "The only time its successful is when you're weak and most of you are weak."

[...] Trump said the "whole world was laughing at Minneapolis over the police station getting burned"

"Rhetoric coming out of the White House is making it worse, people are experiencing real pain," Pritzker, a Democrat, told the President. "We've got to have national leadership calling for calm and legitimate concern for protestors."

"I don't like your rhetoric that much either," Trump fired back. "You could have done much better on coronavirus."'

[...] "Two nights ago people would not have minded an occupying force," he said.'

https://www.cnn.com/...6uzV94mSc5N7k4Q

Trump tweeted:

'Sleepy Joe Biden's people are so Radical Left that they are working to get the Anarchists out of jail, and probably more. Joe doesn't know anything about it, he is clueless, but they will be the real power, not Joe. They will be calling the shots! Big tax increases for all, Plus!'

https://twitter.com/...445910826627078

'The Lamestream Media is doing everything within their power to foment hatred and anarchy. As long as everybody understands what they are doing, that they are FAKE NEWS and truly bad people with a sick agenda, we can easily work through them to GREATNESS!'

https://twitter.com/...132763116838913

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