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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
There's at least one
, I haven't bothered to check its methodology so I have no idea if it's reliable or not but the results are interesting.
According to the poll around half of voters think he committed a crime.
Edited by Fourthspartan56 on Aug 28th 2020 at 6:20:31 AM
"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji Yanghttps://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2020/08/28/day-1317/
Day 1317: "Profoundly."
U.S.: Total confirmed cases: ~5,903,000; deaths: ~182,000
Source: Johns Hopkins University
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html
At least 200,000 more people have died than usual since March – about 60,000 higher than the number of deaths that have been directly linked to the coronavirus. (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/08/12/us/covid-deaths-us.html
💻 COVID-19 Live Blogs: New York Times
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2/ A federal judge ordered the Trump administration and the U.S. Postal Service to turn over documents and information about USPS service changes that could undermine mail-in voting. U.S. District Judge Stanley Bastian gave the administration 10 days to comply with the order, which is tied to a lawsuit brought by 20 states over the changes made by Postmaster General Louis Dejoy. The Justice Department opposed the request, arguing that responding to the requests would be burdensome and that much of the information is already part of the public record. Among the information sought by the states is a list of all mail sorting machines identified for decommissioning, including their locations, and whether they will be reinstalled if they have already been decommissioned. (Associated Press / CNN)
https://apnews.com/8048565099b3c3394ef3448f22f53e8a
3/ Trump “profoundly” accepted the Republican Party’s nomination for a second term, botching the word “proudly” in his prepared text, during a 70-minute speech on the South Lawn of the White House. Trump repeatedly misrepresented his own record and leveled numerous false or misleading attacks on Democrats, asserting that he is responsible for everything good that has happened since taking office and that everyone else is to blame for the country’s problems. Trump, meanwhile, has presided over the deaths of 180,000 Americans with nearly 30 million people out of work from the coronavirus, and civil unrest over racial injustice that he has repeatedly and consistently stoked. And, nearly every claim
Trump made about Biden’s positions was false. Trump, nevertheless, claimed the nation is on the cusp of a takeover by “violent anarchists” who would exploit a “weak” Joe Biden to destroy America, adding: “No one will be safe in Biden’s America.” Nearly 2,000 guests on the lawn were packed into rows of chairs with few wearing masks despite the pandemic and social distancing guideline. (NBC News / New York Times / Washington Post / Bloomberg / CNN / Wall Street Journal)
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/28/politics/republican-convention-analysis/index.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/27/us/politics/donald-trump.html
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[Read] Trump’s acceptance speech at the RNC.
The Biden campaign bought the domain name KeepAmericaGreat.com and turned it into a list of Trump’s broken promises. “Trump isn’t looking for a second term,” the page reads. “He’s looking for a do-over.” The page also lists a number of promises Trump had made that the Biden campaign says he hasn’t delivered on. Trump announced that Keep America Great would be his re-election slogan before the formal launch of his campaign last year. (Politico / NBC News)
4/ A senior White House official dismissed concerns about the lack of social distancing at Trump’s GOP acceptance speech, saying “everybody is going to catch this thing eventually.” An estimated 1,500 people, mostly maskless, attended the speech. Most guests were not administered rapid coronavirus tests upon entry. (Talking Points Memo)
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/coronavirus/article245322115.html
A member of Defense Secretary Mark Esper’s team tested positive for COVID-19. A defense official said the staffer was part of the advance team for Esper’s trip in the Indo-Pacific region and did not come into contact with Esper or Pentagon staff. (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/28/politics/mark-esper-aide-tested-positve-coronavirus/index.html
5/ Thousands of demonstrators marched on Washington demanding an end to systemic racism while honoring the 57th anniversary of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” address. Speakers called for the Senate to take up the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, which would make it easier to prosecute police officers for misconduct, and enact a new version of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. The “Get Your Knee Off Our Necks” Commitment March convened hours after Trump’s acceptance speech on the South Lawn of the White House where he railed against what he called agitators bent on destroying “the American way of life.” (New York Times / Wall Street Journal / Washington Post / USA Today)
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/27/us/jacob-blake-wisconsin-thursday/index.html
6/ FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn removed the agency’s chief spokeswoman, who was installed by the White House 11 days ago. Emily Miller previously worked in communications for the re-election campaign of Ted Cruz and was a journalist for One America News, the conservative cable network. Separately, the Department of Health and Human Services terminated the contract of a public relations consultant who had advised Hahn to correct misleading comments about the benefits of blood plasma for COVID-19. HHS, however, denied that Wayne Pines’s contract was terminated because of his involvement in the plasma messaging. (New York Times / Politico / CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/28/politics/emily-miller-food-and-drug-administration/index.html
Twitter removed two fake, pro-Trump accounts that had co-opted the identities of African Americans. The fake accounts used the images of Black men for their profile pictures and had five separate tweets with at least 10,000 retweets related to abandoning the Democratic Party. (NBC News)
The Pentagon will reduce the U.S. force in Iraq to about 3,500 troops from about 5,200. “The U.S. and Iraq refrained from publicly setting a schedule for reducing the approximately 5,200 American troops now in the country when Iraq’s prime minister visited Washington last week.” (Wall Street Journal / ABC News)
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/us-reduce-troop-level-iraq-3500-5200/story?id=72681778
University of Pennsylvania faculty asked the provost to investigate how Trump was admitted to the school in 1966. Eric Orts and five other faculty cited “new evidence” on secretly recorded tapes between Mary Trump and Maryanne Trump Barry, in which Trump’s sister says a friend took his entrance exam. Mary Trump’s new book also alleges that Trump paid someone to take his SATs. In July, the six professors wrote that “failing to investigate an allegation of fraud at such a level broadcasts to prospective students and the world at large that the playing field is not equal, that our degrees can be bought, and that subsequent fame, wealth, and political status will excuse past misconduct.” (Washington Post)
Edited by sgamer82 on Aug 28th 2020 at 6:27:31 AM
Biden does not have the authority to initiate a prosecution. He cannot instruct the Justice Department to arrest someone, indict someone, or investigate someone. We've forgotten that in the era of Trump.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Edited by tclittle on Aug 28th 2020 at 9:22:32 AM
"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."Considering their very close ties to the President, I think it's prudent to bring up the sordid (and very NSFW) saga of Jerry Falwell Jr. and his lovely wife Becki. It more or less resembles a very lewd episode of South Park.
So first there was one pool boy who came forward saying Becki had an intimate relationship with him, while her husband watched. This pool boy went into business with the Falwells' assistance and was photographed with Trump.
Then another pool boy came forward with similar allegations. Saying that Giancarlo did not "share all the details."
And now, a former member of the Marching Band is alleging he was picked up by Becki, seduced by her, and then she badgered him over Facebook and texts to keep on doing it with her.
Keep in mind, Liberty University has a policy of "the only legitimate relationship is man and wife", and bans LGBT students. They've also banned liberal Christian speakers from the University and even threatened one of them with a lawsuit if he "dared show his face and corrupt my students".
Edited by NickTheSwing on Aug 28th 2020 at 11:17:12 AM
I mean, their private sexual affairs are their own, as long as everyone is consenting to it. There's nothing scandalous about what they are doing in the bedroom, and we shouldn't kink shame them for it.
The real issue here is the hypocrisy of being a religious leader oppressing other people for the exact same behaviour.
Hope shines brightest in the darkest timesOne thing I appreciate is the fact that Trump, Falwell, and others are causing a serious rift in the white evangelical community. As much as Trump has their support, the younger ones are largely disgusted by their behavior and are not getting any answer that satisfies from their leadership.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.Because there isn't an answer, they aren't suporting them because of there beliefs, there twisting there beliefs because they suport them.
I have to disagree, it's certainly contradictory to their stated beliefs but it's perfectly compatible with their true beliefs: Reactionary bigotry.
If we replace "family values" with "supremacy of the patriarch" and "heteronormativity" then their support of a crass sexual predator makes perfect sense.
And if we replace "defend our border" with "maintain white racial dominion" then rallying behind naked and ugly nativism makes perfect sense.
Ultimately the Religious Right are white supremacist reactionaries who pretended otherwise, Trump is just the mask fully coming off.
"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang![]()
Not to mention that she legitimately didn't see any issue with using the FDA's official twitter feed to promote Trump. The Hatch Act really ought to be just done away with if it's not actually going to get enforced (see: this, Kellyanne Conway), as she's not being fired, just reassigned within the FDA.
"Why would I inflict myself on somebody else?"

I think odds are good that Trump might die before ever spending a single day in jail.
If the list of crimes against him is even half as long as we all suspect it is, then it might take years before the whole process is sorted out.