American Politics

[ScatManDoo]

I guess we can call Biden the "TV Town Hall TV ratings winner" since the early reports have Biden on ABC garnering 12.7 million sets of eyes compared to Trump and NBC with 10.4.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...553&si=1462369

Calling him a winner is deflated by him missing an audience like the September debate carried on 16 networks to a audience of 73 million viewers (and rerun to over 2 million more).

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/30/b...e-ratings.html

Joe had something to show & teach specifically to the 17.8 million (of that +73 million crowd) that watched the first debate via the fox network.

[Paulie97]

Also in the month of May, Trump whined on camera about how awful the experience of taking a Covid test was, with it's intrusive and uncomfortable swab insertions (I guess it tickles the brain, or whatever Trump has in that space).

With Trump disliking the test. And his propensity to not do what everyone else has to do (like pay taxes) if he doesn't want to.

I suspect Trump had no testing, or only a few token tests performed during the entire months of June, July, August and September.

During all four of these months the White House kept billing the president as the 'most tested person in the world'. When the White House announces something that's hard to believe, only his stupid followers actually believe. I believe Trump's Covid testing record for these four months is empty or nearly empty.

And that the only thing more embarrassing than the White House's refusal to release the testing records, is what would be disclosed if they were released.

It's time to put the petulant child and his koolaid drinkers on the sidelines. Then Republicans can reclaim their party and rebuild. Vote.

[Engine Driver]

Agreed. I'm not a Biden fan, he's way too far to the right for me. The majority of the democratic party is as corporate as the republican. And is beholden to the same donors. But I'm holding my nose and voting for him because I truly believe Trump has been a disaster for the United States. Hopefully enough true progressives can ride in on Biden's coattails and we might actually see meaningful change such as universal health care, paid education, and maybe at some point four weeks paid vacation, a UBI, and good pensions for everyone.

How are you going to cope with socialism in your country? Hahaha. You might have to learn to speak Chinese soon to appease your slanty eyed paymasters who will soon be owning you. Hahaha. Do you think Harris will poison Biden's nightly glass of warm milk to take control of the world sooner? Do you think her Chinese masters will enjoy pounding her tight Indian asshole each night? Will they make her go ATM so that she gets to lick the curry off their [Deleted by Admin] dicks? Will she swallow Chinese cum? So many questions and so few answers. We will wait three weeks to find out.

[ScatManDoo]

So Trump is starting his 'Airport Hangar Tour' today in Orlando Florida (Sandford International Airport). The next three days he plans to visit hangars at Johnstown Cambria County Airport in Pennsylvania, Des Moises International Airport in Iowa, and Pitt-Greenville Airport to double-down on Pennsylvania's 20 electoral college votes.

The President's Press Secretary and his top doctor (TSD-Top Spin Doctor) announced that the President tested negative for Covid for two consecutive days.

They refused to say which two consecutive days they were (how coy they are), but the smart money is on Sunday and Monday (yesterday & today). Before it happened, the President yesterday said he was going to get tested later on Sunday (yesterday).

As far as specifying earlier testing dates, the last one actually reported for the President was on Thursday, October 1st, and the results came back positive.

Thursday October first was a busy day that should not have been busy. On that Thursday (10/1), Hope Hicks tested positive. Later that day, Trump then decided to go to a fundraiser at his New Jersey private club in Bedminster NJ. In an evening interview with Fox news that same Thursday, he said he and Melania "are being" tested and an hour past midnight Trump announced that he and Melania tested positive. It was later reported that Trump had experienced symptoms before he was tested, not sure if symptoms began on Thursday, or days earlier.

Any doctor willing to discuss the matter all say that the President was wrong wrong wrong WRONG to visit Bedminister after learning of Hope Hick's positive test results before starting that New Jersey trip.

Any doctor, except those employed to care for the President, will likely state that Trump had enough (and close enough) contact with Hope Hicks, to reasonably only take the action of going into quarantine / self-quarantine following Hope Hicks diagnosis.

The day before, Wednesday September 30th, Trump and Hicks and a full campaign entourage crammed into Airforce 1 and most went to suburban Minneapolis to a private home stuffed with wealthy mid-westerners for a fundraiser, followed by an airport hangar event in Duluth MN. Hope Hicks felt very sick soon after arriving in Minnesota. I don't know if Hope Hicks attended the suburban fundraiser, but she did not attend the Duluth hanger campaign rally but instead went to the airplane and tried isolating herself aboard Airforce One (using what as a barrier? A combination of airplane pillows, cocktail napkins and barf bags? The "self-isolated" fever-blind Hope Hicks stayed on Airforce 1 and flew back to Washington DC with Trump and everybody else.

If Trump had known that Hope Hicks was actively shedding disease, I'm sure he would have sprung for a coach ticket to get her off of AF1, without caring about giving Covid to more Americans on another commercial flight.

So when was Trump's last negative Covid test before he tested positive on a test taken on Thursday October 1st? Trump won't say nor allow anyone else to say when.

The White House last reported a Trump negative Covid test result multiple times way back in the month of May.

Also in the month of May, Trump whined on camera about how awful the experience of taking a Covid test was, with it's intrusive and uncomfortable swab insertions (I guess it tickles the brain, or whatever Trump has in that space).

With Trump disliking the test. And his propensity to not do what everyone else has to do (like pay taxes) if he doesn't want to.

I suspect Trump had no testing, or only a few token tests performed during the entire months of June, July, August and September.

During all four of these months the White House kept billing the president as the 'most tested person in the world'. When the White House announces something that's hard to believe, only his stupid followers actually believe. I believe Trump's Covid testing record for these four months is empty or nearly empty.

And that the only thing more embarrassing than the White House's refusal to release the testing records, is what would be disclosed if they were released.

[ScatManDoo]

Getting infected with COVID is a great failure for President Trump.

He got it as a result of his choices, despite having a great responsibility, and unlimited resources, to not get sick.

No, it's not a failure, it's a success! Just as when Bolsonaro got it and showed how ridiculously harmless COVID-19 is. It only strengthens his point that it's nothing to worry about.

Well, Trump's got plenty to worry about.

According to Fox news, Biden has recently pulled farther ahead of Trump in nationwide polling.

Staying healthy has helped make Biden's poll numbers healthier (as Trump speeds his decline). Biden's 5 point nationwide lead in September is now a 10-point lead in October.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fox...und-over-trump

[Golfinho]

No one deserved to win it more than Trump. He's the leader that the World needs and the World deserves. Obama & Biden only embolden Iran and that's why Iran is using Yemen to attack and terrorize Saudi. No one has done more for peace the last 30 years than Trump.

Trump hasn't started any new wars and they would find a way to get rid of him if he tried to end any of the existing wars.

After that VP debate, now it's clear why Kabala Harris and her smug, whiny voice couldn't even make it to the first Presidential primary election before her campaign folded. Can the Democrats really think the electorate is so stupid they would vote solely based on skin tone and gender? This Prosecutor has even less interest in common with African-American lives mattering than the half-Kenyan Ivy League lawyer candidate they put up twelve years' ago. And she was so busy prosecuting little people she had no time to get beard-married until she was fifty years' old, much less have kids of her own. Is this something anyone could look forward to seeing and hearing for the next four years? (Not to mention if the senile old fool Biden goes full dementia in the meantime.).

[ShooBree]

No, because he does not deserve it.

This was recently written by Jos Ramos-Horta, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate:

There are more than 300 nominees for the Nobel Peace Prize. They include heads of state, leaders of movements, medical teams, and some people you have never heard of. To my knowledge there is only one who has released the news of his nomination to the press.

As someone who walked the hall in Oslo to receive the award in 1996, I have had the opportunity to come to know most of my fellow laureates, and many nominees who I have felt deserved the prize but have not yet received it. The overriding qualities I have seen in these peacemakers is a deep-seated passion for peace and justice, an optimism about the better nature of man, and humility. They share a knowledge that confronting and taming the more violent nature of man is a job bigger than any one person. It is a rare acceptance speech that does not include an acknowledgement of the shoulders one has stood on to arrive at that majestic ceremony.

Donald Trump has equated all protesters with "violent mobs" and "anarchists," and has celebrated those who brandish weapons against peaceful protesters. The language he uses toward any who oppose him is mockery, denigration, and at times, twisted facts and falsehoods uttered to ignite the baser and even violent natures of his audience. He gives thinly veiled support to violent White Supremacy extremists. As for humility, he states that he has accomplished more than any other President in the history of his nation.

When the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded for peace accords, it has been for bringing peace between countries or parties at war. A trade deal between Serbia and Kosovo, for which he received one nomination, is a plus, but it is just that, a trade deal. The armed conflict between these nations ended in 1999 when Bill Clinton was President..

No one deserved to win it more than Trump. He's the leader that the World needs and the World deserves. Obama & Biden only embolden Iran and that's why Iran is using Yemen to attack and terrorize Saudi. No one has done more for peace the last 30 years than Trump.

[ScatManDoo]

On numerous occasions in the Month of April the White House announced that the President tested negative for Covid-19.

Also on numerous occasions in the Month of May the White House announced that the President tested negative for Covid-19.

Suddenly now his testing records are privately guarded records the White House is instructed not to release.

There are videos of Trump saying that the nasal swab up his nose was very unpleasant.

So it comes as no surprise to me that this selfish fuck was likely uncooperative with his doctors and refusing to take more of the unpleasant tests until he got very sick.

While infecting hundreds of others (like gold star families) while being involved with many events.

For the first presidential debate no testing was done. Candidates and their entourages were on the honor system.

The honor system does not work with dishonorable people.

[ScatManDoo]

So tell me.

Does anybody else (other than Cane) get the humor in seeing Trump cough his way through the interview where he tries to strongly assert how healthy he is?

My republican friends are too stupid to get it.

[The Cane]

Let me clear my throat! Hahahaha! LOLOLOL!

https://news.yahoo.com/excuse-trump-...054507601.html

https://youtu.be/gnsqvz9iIlA

[ScatManDoo]

Will President Trump win the Noble Peace Prize for bringing peace to the Middle East?

No, because he does not deserve it.

This was recently written by Jos Ramos-Horta, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate:

There are more than 300 nominees for the Nobel Peace Prize. They include heads of state, leaders of movements, medical teams, and some people you have never heard of. To my knowledge there is only one who has released the news of his nomination to the press.

As someone who walked the hall in Oslo to receive the award in 1996, I have had the opportunity to come to know most of my fellow laureates, and many nominees who I have felt deserved the prize but have not yet received it. The overriding qualities I have seen in these peacemakers is a deep-seated passion for peace and justice, an optimism about the better nature of man, and humility. They share a knowledge that confronting and taming the more violent nature of man is a job bigger than any one person. It is a rare acceptance speech that does not include an acknowledgement of the shoulders one has stood on to arrive at that majestic ceremony.

Donald Trump has equated all protesters with "violent mobs" and "anarchists," and has celebrated those who brandish weapons against peaceful protesters. The language he uses toward any who oppose him is mockery, denigration, and at times, twisted facts and falsehoods uttered to ignite the baser and even violent natures of his audience. He gives thinly veiled support to violent White Supremacy extremists. As for humility, he states that he has accomplished more than any other President in the history of his nation.

When the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded for peace accords, it has been for bringing peace between countries or parties at war. A trade deal between Serbia and Kosovo, for which he received one nomination, is a plus, but it is just that, a trade deal. The armed conflict between these nations ended in 1999 when Bill Clinton was President.

The second nomination was for an "historic peace deal" in which the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain formally recognized Israel. While this is certainly a plus for Israel, neither the UAE nor Bahrain has ever been at war with Israel. Rather than a peace deal, it is a realignment of Sunni Arab leaders, standing with Israel against the Shia leadership of Iran. The "deal" has been preceded by the doubling of arms sales to the Middle East in 2019 alone, including the sale of Patriot missile systems to both Bahrain and the UAE, and the sharing of nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia, heightening the potential for catastrophic military conflict in the region, in the longer view placing the lives of all in the Middle East, including Israeli citizens, at heightened risk.

It ignores entirely the plight of the Palestinians, who have had their land encroached upon and divided, their private land simply confiscated and reassigned to Israeli settlers. The United States and Israel have literally killed the internationally supported Two State solution. If the new alliances were to revive the dialogue and move such a solution forward, it could bring hope of real peace building in the Middle East. From the actions of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in Yemen, this is sadly unlikely.

The civil war in Yemen is an increasingly complex conflict that cries out for a political solution. Instead, in 2015, the United States threw its weight and arms behind one side, aligning with Saudi Arabia in a nine-nation coalition that included the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain against the Houthi. The sheer might against them has led the Houthi deeper into the arms of Iran and Hezbollah.

Since that time more than 112,000 Yemeni have died as a direct result of the violence; more than 85,000 children have died of starvation as a result of aerial and naval blockades by the Saudi coalition and blockages by the Houthis. UNICEF estimates that 25 million more are at risk of starvation. 12,600 civilians have been killed in targeted attacks by Saudi Arabia and the UAE, including bombings of markets, residential areas, schools, hospitals and wedding parties. One of the primary tools for these bombings has been laser-guided bombs produced by Lockheed Martin and sold by the thousands to Saudi Arabia.

In March 2019, both houses of the United States Congress voted to pass a resolution to end USA Support to the Saudi Arabia war effort. It was vetoed by President Donald Trump.

Arms deals and military alliances against neighboring nations, while protective of American interests in the region, are not the stuff of peace. They are the material of death, lost limbs, lost children, destroyed families and neighborhoods, and increased hatred of America. Arriving at political solutions to Yemen, a laying down of arms by all parties and the restoration of democracy to the citizenry would be worthy of a Nobel Peace Prize. Even more so would be the advancement of a nuclear-weapons free zone in the Middle East, an effort pursued by the UN General Assembly since 1974 which is sadly lacking support from the United States.

President Trump seems to be missing the point that the Nobel Peace Prize is not just something you hang on your wall. It is an award for builders of peace and democracy, not merchants of violence and war.

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-nobel...erving-1537578

[ShooBree]

Will President Trump win the Noble Peace Prize for bringing peace to the Middle East? Meanwhile Sleepy Creepy Joe is hiding in his basement. It's great for the world to have had Trump as US President after the failed foreign policy of Obama&Biden. It saddened me to see how Obama and Biden let the Iranians infiltrate the White House and damaged the relationship with Israel. The World can't go back to another four years of Biden's encouragement of terrorism perpetrated by the Iranians and Palestinians.

[ScatManDoo]

The latest development with the Commission on Presidential Debates announcing today (Thursday) that the second debate between former Vice President Joe Biden and President Donald Trump will be virtual is a good thing. The president lately has been acting like a dangerous (out of control) leper.

With Trump announcing today that he will not participate in the second Presidential Presidential if is conducted virtually I see a simple conclusion that solves numerous problems.

If Joe Biden participates under the Commission's current plans.

VP Biden could be debating against a cardboard cutout of the Trumpster. That would cure all the interruptions that Trump's mouth diarrhea cause the last time.

And the cardboard cutout could pull double duty and help the President attend the World Series.

[ScatManDoo]

I was watching the late show with Stephen Colbert last night when the host said something that was both funny and true.

Stephen Colbert - "In the past few days the White House has reported more cases than the entire country of Taiwan".

Taiwan is a country with over 23 million inhabitants.

If we narrow that down to the last 24 hours:

The country of Singapore, comparatively, has reported 10 cases in the last 24 hours, according to the WHO. Thailand has reported eight, Taiwan two and both New Zealand and Vietnam one new case each. Sweden and Belgium boast zero new cases.

https://www.newsweek.com/trumps-orbi...ntries-1536207

[Goatscrot]

Trump leaves the hospital, flies in, ascends the WH steps even though this is not his normal entrance, stands on the balcony, and removes his mash while highly contagious spewing his germs into the air. He poses for his photo ops then goes in the WH maskless. What a sick, self-absorbed fuck. As I said, it's not about Dems and Repubs anymore, libs or conservatives, but about ending this circus, getting this guy out of power and back squawking on the sidelines where he belongs. No matter you affiliation that's a step in the right direction.

Agreed. I'm not a Biden fan, he's way too far to the right for me. The majority of the democratic party is as corporate as the republican. And is beholden to the same donors. But I'm holding my nose and voting for him because I truly believe Trump has been a disaster for the United States. Hopefully enough true progressives can ride in on Biden's coattails and we might actually see meaningful change such as universal health care, paid education, and maybe at some point four weeks paid vacation, a UBI, and good pensions for everyone.