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Just saw this morning that Joe Walsh is going to run against trump in 2020. Finally, a republican with an actual pair of balls in his fucking pants. He said -

"[Trump]'s unqualified. He's unfit. He's a child. He's reckless. He's erratic. He's a narcissist, " Walsh said Monday on "Morning Joe." "If he's our nominee in 2020, the Republican Party is going to get spanked, because young people don't like Trump. Women don't like Trump and people who live in the suburbs don't like Trump."

"Look, I think I'm partly responsible for Trump and that's kind of a scary thing to say," he said. "I think two things got Trump elected. The Republican Party establishment was out of touch with their voters. And Trump took advantage of that. He touched upon this issue of people in this country illegally. The Republican Party ignored that issue."

Walsh added, "The other part that got Trump elected was -- I was part of the Tea Party class of 2010... we got ahead of ourselves and we engaged in this politics of personal destruction... Those personal attacks that we got into too much, I think led to the personification of Trump... I feel pretty darn responsible for having him in the White House."

Walsh continued to express personal shame for having voted for Trump and said his apology for his past views should be seen as a positive.

"Correct me if I'm wrong, this man's never apologized for anything. So here I am in front of you this morning -- yes, raising my hands. I helped put Trump in the White House," he said.

"I'm ashamed of that. I feel terrible about that. I'm going to try to redeem myself about that. But most importantly, the country can't let this guy get... reelected. We're being run right now by a child and that's pretty damn scary."

Got damn, I like him. I usually dislike all republicans on principle but I seriously, and honestly respect him for having the balls to push back against an entire party that has been cutting off America's nose to spite it's face for years.
 
Yes, there he was, the Pretender in Chief on the G7 world stage shilling to hold the next G7 at one of his golf resort properties noting how close it was to the airport and the resorts many amenities.

Trump Has Just the Place for the Next G7 Meeting, His Own Golf Resort

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Presidents usually use international summits to advance their policy agenda on the world stage. But President Trump turned a public appearance in southern France on Monday into what sounded like an infomercial for his sagging golf and resort business in southern Florida.

In suggesting that the next Group of 7 summit of world leaders should be at his own luxury golf resort in Doral, Fla., west of Miami, Mr. Trump put the most glaring spotlight to date on his willingness to flout the ethical boundaries that have historically constrained activities that mix for-profit business and the presidency.

In suggesting that the next Group of 7 summit of world leaders should be at his own luxury golf resort in Doral, Fla., west of Miami, Mr. Trump put the most glaring spotlight to date on his willingness to flout the ethical boundaries that have historically constrained activities that mix for-profit business and the presidency.

And not just for any personal business: The Trump National Doral Miami Golf Club is the Trump family’s biggest moneymaking asset, which has shown signs of financial struggle since Mr. Trump began running for president in 2015.

Mr. Trump said his property, a “great place,” was uniquely equipped to handle the Group of 7 meeting in 2020.

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Trump blames 'radical Left Democrats' for spreading rumors about his Miami resort

A New Jersey insurance executive who sued and then settled over an itchy infestation at the “spectacular” resort where President Donald Trump hopes to host world leaders next year said Tuesday he’s “outraged” by the president’s attempt to deny bedbug reports.


Eric Linder is bound by a confidentiality agreement not to discuss the settlement of his 2016 lawsuit — but he was plenty unhappy with the president’s tweet earlier in the day deriding bedbug claims about his Trump National Doral resort outside Miami.

“I’m outraged by it,” Linder, 66, who lives in Fort Lee, told the New York Daily News.

Trump’s morning tweet claimed there are “no bedbugs at Doral” and charged “Radical Left Democrats” had “spread that false and nasty rumor” after he proposed Monday hosting the 2020 G-7 summit at the resort.

“Not nice!” the president added.

The hashtag #TrumpBedBugs was trending on Twitter Monday night, as critics shared reports of Linder’s suit in light of the president’s Doral proposal.

As part of his lawsuit, Linder demanded $15,000 in damages from Trump after being subjected to bedbug bites causing “welts, lumps and marks over much of his face, neck, arms and torso.”

Trump had already sparked discomfort among even his closest allies with his bizarre effort to host the next G-7 summit at his own hotel.

Conservative Rick Santorum, a former GOP presidential candidate who was at one point in the running to become Trump’s chief of staff, said the president should “just stop” trying to use the White House to steer business to his properties.

“It’s inappropriate. He shouldn’t do it,” Santorum said on CNN.

Trump stunned world leaders by using the internationally televised stage at this year’s G7 in Biarritz, France, on Monday to tout his struggling resort as an “outstanding” spot for next year’s summit.

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Gun Control Group Takes Aim at Mitch McConnell in Emotional Ad: 'This Isn't Normal'

The national gun control group Everytown For Gun Safety has called on Mitch McConnell and other prominent Republicans to stand up to the gun lobby in a new series of emotional advertisements.

The ad begins with a montage of news footage from the most deadly mass shootings over the past several years, including Sandy Hook in 2012, the Orlando nightclub shooting in 2016 and the Las Vegas music festival attack in 2017. The montage ends with the most recent tragedies in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, earlier this month that killed 31 people.

"It seems like everyday there's another shooting. This isn't normal. It's time our elected officials do something about it," the ad says. "Tell Mitch McConnell to stand up to the gun lobby and pass bipartisan background check and red flag laws to keep guns away from people who pose a danger to our communities."

Everytown announced earlier this month that it planned to spend $1 million on digital and television ads in eight states to demand Republicans in Congress pass gun control legislation. Other senators targeted in the ads include Marco Rubio, Rick Scott, Cory Gardner, John Cornyn, Ted Cruz, Mitt Romney, Johnny Isakson, David Perdue, Richard Burr, Thom Tillis, Rob Portman and Lamar Alexander.

"The American people want action on gun violence, and we're saying so in a voice loud enough for every senator to hear," John Feinblatt, president of Everytown, said in a statement. "We're unleashing the full power of our grassroots movement and leading our most aggressive August spending effort ever, to ensure the Senate gets the message and passes background checks and a strong federal 'red flag' law."

Despite pressure from Democrats, McConnell has not called the Senate back to Washington D.C., for an emergency legislative session to address the back-to-back mass shootings in California, Texas and Ohio earlier this month.

The Senate majority leader has also not allowed a vote on gun control legislation that was passed by the Democratic-controlled House earlier this year. The bill would require universal background checks for almost all firearm purchases.

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Schumer writes to Trump: 'Strong opposition' to Russia rejoining G7

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and other top Democrats wrote to President Trump on Tuesday objecting to his desire to invite Russia to rejoin the Group of Seven industrialized democracies.

The New York Democrat, along with Democratic Sens. Bob Menendez of New Jersey, Jack Reed of Rhode Island, and Mark Warner of Virginia told Trump that Russia “does not currently possess the democratic institutions nor the economic capacity to rejoin the Group, and the Putin regime’s actions since its expulsion in 2014 demonstrate that the Russian government is not prepared to productively contribute to the efforts of the G7.”

Russia was kicked out of the G8 after invading and annexing Crimea in violation of several international agreements.

Senate Democrats pointed to more recent behavior to make the case that Russian President Vladimir Putin does not deserve a seat in the Group, including Russian meddling in U.S. elections and the 2018 chemical weapons attacks on a former Russian double agent in Salisbury, England, support of the Maduro regime in Venezuela and the Assad regime in Syria, and the persecution of minority groups and political adversaries in Russia.

“For these reasons, under no circumstances should President Putin be invited to participate in the G7 until the Russian government undertakes demonstrable actions to show its willingness to behave responsibly both domestically and abroad,” the Democrats wrote to Trump.

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Farmers' frustration with Trump grows as U.S. escalates China fight

WASHINGTON — Peppered with complaints from farmers fed up with President Trump’s trade war, Sonny Perdue found his patience wearing thin. Mr. Perdue, the agriculture secretary and the guest of honor at the annual Farmfest gathering in southern Minnesota this month, tried to break the ice with a joke.

“What do you call two farmers in a basement?” Mr. Perdue asked near the end of a testy hourlong town-hall-style event. “A whine cellar.”

A cascade of boos ricocheted around the room.

American farmers have become collateral damage in a trade war that Mr. Trump began to help manufacturers and other companies that he believes have been hurt by China’s “unfair” trade practices.

More than a year into the trade dispute, sales of American soybeans, pork, wheat and other agricultural products to China have dried up as Beijing retaliates against Mr. Trump’s tariffs on Chinese imports. Lucrative contracts that farmers long relied on for a significant source of income have evaporated, with Chinese buyers looking to other nations like Brazil and Canada to get the commodities they need. Farm bankruptcy filings in the year through June were up 13 percent from 2018 and loan delinquency rates are on the rise, according to the American Farm Bureau.

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We farmed to eat in my family raising an almost full acre garden as well as chickens, ducks, rabbits and a pig or two when I was a young'un. It was a lot of hard work with a full belly being it's reward.
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Mattis swipes at Trump, warns of ‘storm clouds gathering’ amid fractured alliances

Mattis’ comments were included in a lengthy essay adapted from a forthcoming book and published in The Wall Street Journal. They amount to some of the most extensive remarks from him about his time in the Trump administration since he quietly resigned in January.

In the essay, Mattis suggested he left his post as secretary of defense amid concerns about “keeping faith with our allies,” warning that America “cannot go it alone.”

In the essay, Mattis suggested he left his post as secretary of defense amid concerns about “keeping faith with our allies,” warning that America “cannot go it alone.”

“Nations with allies thrive, and those without them wither. Alone, America cannot protect our people and our economy,” Mattis wrote. “At this time, we can see storm clouds gathering.”

He pointedly added: “A polemicist’s role is not sufficient for a leader. A leader must display strategic acumen that incorporates respect for those nations that have stood with us when trouble loomed.”

Mattis said he “did as well as I could, for as long as I could” as secretary of defense.

In one section, he essentially wrote that he resigned when he felt his concerns about those alliances were not being taken seriously.

“When my concrete solutions and strategic advice, especially keeping faith with our allies, no longer resonated, it was time to resign, despite the limitless joy I felt serving alongside our troops in defense of our Constitution,” Mattis wrote.

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List of quotes from dump truck at the G7. It's mostly him licking Putin's butthole and schilling his property for next years summit. He. Is. A. Fucking. Moron. My 11 year old son can speak with more clarity and eloquence than that walking bag of trash. I wonder if he knows that, other than his own rallies and social media comment sections where the dregs of society congregate, people laugh at him? What's worse? To be the idiot everyone is laughing at or a blind follower of said idiot?

"I think Iran wants to get this situation straightened out. Now, is that based on fact or based on gut? That's based on gut."

An amazing window into how Trump thinks and acts. First, he says Iran is going to want to "get this situation straightened out" before adding he doesn't actually know that, he just sort of senses it. Also, on Tuesday, Iran's president said there would be no talks between the two countries unless -- and until -- US economic sanctions are lifted.

What was all that tired ass bullshit about how conservatives prefer facts to feelings? HAHA!
 
Over 200 US companies urge Trump to cancel proposed higher tariffs

Over 200 U.S. footwear companies on Wednesday urged U.S. President Donald Trump to cancel proposed higher tariffs on Chinese imports that take effect beginning next month, calling them hidden taxes that will jack up consumer prices.

"Imposing tariffs in September on the majority of all footwear products from China — including nearly every type of leather shoe — will make it impossible for hardworking American individuals and families to escape the harm that comes from these tax increases," the companies wrote in a letter to Trump.

While tariffs on some Chinese imports will be delayed until Dec. 15, the majority of footwear lines face an added 15% tariffs on Sept. 1, the letter said. That comes on top of tariffs that already average 11% and reach 67% on some shoes, it added.

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Several Fox News personalities pushed back Wednesday against President Donald Trump after he escalated his public attacks on the right-leaning outlet for its occasional anti-Trump voices.

In the middle of a typically chaotic tweetstorm spurred on by his morning TV viewing habits, the president took aim at Fox News anchor Sandra Smith for bringing on the Democratic National Committee’s communications director, Xochitl Hinojosa, to discuss the upcoming Democratic primary debate.

“Just watched @FoxNews heavily promoting the Democrats through their DNC Communications Director, spewing out whatever she wanted with zero pushback by anchor, @SandraSmithFox,” Trump tweeted on Wednesday. “Terrible considering that Fox couldn’t even land a debate, the Dems give them NOTHING! @CNN & @MSNBC are all in for the Open Border Socialists (or beyond).”

Besides blasting the America’s Newsroom co-anchor, Trump went after a few other Fox News stars who he has recently singled out.

“Fox hires ‘give Hillary the questions’ @donnabrazile, Juan Williams and low ratings Shep Smith. HOPELESS & CLUELESS! They should go all the way LEFT and I will still find a way to Win - That’s what I do, Win,” he wrote. “Too Bad!”

The president concluded by complaining that Fox News was “letting millions of GREAT people down” and that he needs to “start looking for a new News Outlet” since the one-time channel “isn’t working for us anymore!”

Almost immediately after the president’s tweets, Fox News senior political analyst and former news anchor Brit Hume sounded off: “Fox News isn’t supposed to work for you,” he wrote.

Hume wasn’t the only conservative Fox star to fire back at the president. Fox News contributor and radio host Guy Benson essentially repeated Hume’s remarks: “We don’t work for you,” he stated.

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Pelosi Accuses Trump of ‘Stealing’ Relief Funds

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the Trump administration’s effort to shift $271 million within the Department of Homeland Security to support activities at the border is a “brazen assault” on the congressional power of the purse.

In a statement Wednesday, Pelosi urged the administration to reconsider its decision to reprogram the funds, which were originally appropriated for Federal Emergency Management Agency relief funds and the Coast Guard.

“Stealing from appropriated funds is always unacceptable, but to pick the pockets of disaster relief funding in order to fund an appalling, inhumane family incarceration plan is staggering,” Pelosi said, adding that “to do so on the eve of hurricane season is stunningly reckless.”

While Pelosi and other Democratic leaders expressed outrage at the Trump administration’s move, the Associated Press noted that “t is not uncommon for unassigned funds to be transferred between agencies under the same department as the fiscal year ends.” Last year, roughly $10 million was shifted from FEMA to other uses, AP said, in a move that drew “major criticism from Democrats.”

In a statement Wednesday, Pelosi urged the administration to reconsider its decision to reprogram the funds, which were originally appropriated for Federal Emergency Management Agency relief funds and the Coast Guard.

“Stealing from appropriated funds is always unacceptable, but to pick the pockets of disaster relief funding in order to fund an appalling, inhumane family incarceration plan is staggering,” Pelosi said, adding that “to do so on the eve of hurricane season is stunningly reckless.”

While Pelosi and other Democratic leaders expressed outrage at the Trump administration’s move, the Associated Press noted that “t is not uncommon for unassigned funds to be transferred between agencies under the same department as the fiscal year ends.” Last year, roughly $10 million was shifted from FEMA to other uses, AP said, in a move that drew “major criticism from Democrats.”

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Fox News is getting tired of his shit! If they shifted, if they backed one of the other republican candidates that are running? Dump truck wouldn't have a prayer.

I recently talked with a die hard conservative friend for the first time in a long while. Last we spoke about politics, it was pretty heated. I was afraid to ask but I asked what he thought and he said that the election of trump turned him completely off of the republican party and conservative views. I think he said, and I am paraphrasing, that the republican party is just now an army of sheep to protect that super rich. There is nothing fiscal or conservative about the party and even nominating trump much less electing him? He is disgusted. It made me feel a little better to at least know that there are republicans who do care about country over party and are completely turned off by the shit show and do not feel like the party represents their views at all anymore. I mean, he's pretty much the only one I've ever spoken to that was honest but I'll take it.
 
Trump pledged not to use his office to help his business. Then he pitched his Florida club for the next G-7.

When President Trump decided to keep ownership of his company and continue to do business with foreign governments, he said nobody could stop him.

But voters could trust him to police himself, he said.

“I will be leaving my great business in total,” Trump said, pledging to do more to keep his roles separate than was required of him in the Constitution.

“There are lines that we would never cross, and that’s mixing business with anything government,” said Eric Trump, one of two Trump sons who would be taking over day-to-day control of the Trump Organization.

Over time, Trump has repeatedly crossed that line, routinely visiting his properties and talking them up on television and Twitter. The most overt example came last week, when Trump said he was likely to award next year’s Group of Seven summit to his company’s Doral golf resort in Florida — a plan that would direct millions of dollars to benefit his own business.

It was the latest sign that Trump has abandoned some of his pledges about self-restraint, as efforts to hold him to those promises have faltered. Lawsuits alleging he is violating the Constitution by taking money from foreign and U.S. governments have stalled in the courts. Congressional Democrats have been stymied in their role overseeing the executive branch. And Republicans have expressed little interest in reining him in.

“Once upon a time we would have thought of this as something so outlandish it looks more like a ‘Saturday Night Live’ skit. But here we are,” Rep. Jamie B. Raskin (D-Md.) said of Trump’s proposal to award the G-7 summit to himself. He is one of several House Democrats calling for more aggressive action on this issue.

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Trump shares potentially revealing image of Iranian launch site on TwitterIn a tweet Friday, President Trump revealed a detailed aerial image of an Iranian launchpad, an unusual disclosure that may have confirmed the United States is violating Iran’s airspace to spy on its missile program. Some imagery experts, examining the angle and very-high resolution of the image, said it may have been taken by an aircraft, possibly a drone. “It looks like it was taken from an airborne platform, not a satellite,” said Jeffrey Lewis, an arms control expert at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, an assessment echoed by several other experts.

The United States of America was not involved in the catastrophic accident during final launch preparations for the Safir SLV Launch at Semnan Launch Site One in Iran. I wish Iran best wishes and good luck in determining what happened at Site One.

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In June, Iran shot down an unmanned U.S. surveillance drone over the Strait of Hormuz that it said had flown into its airspace.

The United States said the plane was in international airspace. The shoot-down prompted Trump to order a military strike on Iran, which he called off at nearly the last minute.

The image Trump tweeted Friday is almost certainly highly classified, experts said, and bears markings that resemble those made by intelligence analysts. They note damage to the facility and vehicles near it, as well as “scorching and damage” on one side of the launchpad.

Trump said it showed a “catastrophic accident during final launch preparations for the Safir SLV Launch at Semnan Launch Site One in Iran.” The Safir is an Iranian rocket used to place satellites in orbit.

Trump said “the United States of America was not involved” in the incident, which was puzzling because Iran had one day earlier confirmed a rocket explosion at the site, which it said was “due to some technical issues.”

Trump, idiot, imbecile, impossibly intellectually challenged, Pretender in Chief.
 
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Democrats remain frustrated with Mitch McConnell over gun control

Democratic leadership is again calling for immediate action on gun control legislation after another mass shooting in America left at least seven people dead.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer joined a frustrated chorus of Democrats mounting a push against Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Republican leadership to take up gun control legislation after a Saturday rampage in West Texas left at least seven people dead and added fuel to the debate on gun violence in America. The calls to action on Saturday were reminiscent of those made by Democrats in early August after mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, in less than 24 hours killed 31 people.

"Every day, the epidemic of gun violence inflicts a devastating toll in communities in every corner of our country, forcing far too many to endure heartbreak and tragedy," Pelosi said in a statement on Saturday. "The Republican Senate must end its obstruction and finally pass the commonsense, bipartisan, House-passed gun violence prevention legislation that the country is demanding.

On Friday, a tweet from the California Democrat's "Team Pelosi" Twitter account named McConnell, saying, "Gun violence requires immediate action, but Mitch McConnell is refusing to help the people." CNN has reached out to McConnell's office for comment.

Schumer in a Saturday tweet also called for an end to gun violence and for McConnell to have the Senate take up the House background check bill once Congress returns. The bill, which passed the House earlier this year in a 240-190 vote vote but stalled in the Republican-controlled Senate, gained renewed attention following the Texas and Ohio shootings.

The House Judiciary Committee had scheduled to return from August recess a week early to mark up gun legislation, but postponed the meeting because several lawmakers on the committee represent areas of Florida where Hurricane Dorian was projected to hit.

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2020 Senate map becomes less certain for GOP

WASHINGTON--This week the 2020 Senate landscape grew a bit more interesting as Georgia's Johnny Isakson announced he was resigning at the end of the year. That put another Republican-held seat on the battleground list - the second one in Georgia - and added more evidence that control for the upper chamber of Congress is very much in play.

The Senate campaign map that is coming into view is looking more and more like a "good news," but not "great news" situation for Democrats. The party needs to net only four seats to get to a 51-49 majority in the Senate and the list of seats that Republicans need to defend is growing - but there are not a lot of easy marks.

In essence, the Democrats' path to recapturing the Senate seems to be growing more options, but it's not necessarily growing easier.

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The photo Trump tweeted out from a classified briefing likely came from one of the US's most secretive spy satellites

President Donald Trump tweeted out an image on Friday from a classified briefing to taunt Iran, and analysts suspect the photo came from one of the US's most advanced satellites.

Intelligence veterans have suggested that the president's tweet might be a windfall for potential adversaries, even if the photo in the tweet appears to be a photo of a photo.

"One doesn't use intel for the purposes of taunting. The Russians and the Chinese will be very happy to study this," Robert Deitz, a former top lawyer at the CIA and the National Security Agency, told Insider.

"One doesn't use intel for the purposes of taunting. The Russians and the Chinese will be very happy to study this," Robert Deitz, a former top lawyer at the CIA and the National Security Agency, told Insider.

"I imagine adversaries are going to take a look at this image and reverse-engineer it," Hanham told NPR.

Defending his decision last week, Trump told reporters, "We had a photo and I released it, which I have the absolute right to do."

But former officials stressed that even though, as president, Trump has the authority to declassify anything he wants, he's still expected to act with the utmost discretion.

Trump's "release of the image was consistent with his disdain for foreign policy and intelligence expertise," John Sipher, a former CIA clandestine services officer who spent 28 years at the agency, told Insider. "If he sees an immediate personal or political benefit, he does not feel any need to follow rules, regulations, protocol, or even laws."

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McConnell remains noncommittal on gun control after Texas mass shooting

After another mass shooting over the weekend, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell remained noncommittal Tuesday about bringing new gun safety legislation to a vote, instead putting the onus on the White House to first decide what it would support.

The Kentucky Republican was asked during an interview with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt specifically about a House-passed bill to expand background checks on firearm sales, which has stalled in Congress since the aftermath of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in Newtown, Conn.

“Well, we’re in discussions about what to do on the gun issue in the wake of these horrendous shootings,” McConnell said. “I said several weeks ago if the president took a position on a bill so that we knew we’d actually be making a law, I’d be happy to put it on the floor.”

McConnell said he expected the administration to give him an answer on what President Trump is prepared to support next week.

After each mass shooting during his presidency, Trump has wavered over how to address the nation’s gun violence epidemic. He has suggested support in the past for closing loopholes in background check laws for gun purchases, but then will reverse his stance.

“If the president is in favor of a number of things he has discussed openly and publicly and I know we will pass it and it’ll become law, I’ll put it on the floor,” McConnell told Hewitt.

In August, three mass shootings claimed the lives of 38 people, including Saturday’s shooting spree in Odessa and Midland, Tex. Earlier in the month, back-to-back shootings at a Walmart in El Paso, and in a historic nightlife district in Dayton, Ohio, renewed the calls to pass stricter gun laws.

Trump, on Sunday, told reporters that the latest mass shooting “really hasn’t changed anything” regarding the discussion among lawmakers about gun policy.

McConnell’s reticence to take a stance on the issue earned him the nickname “Massacre Mitch” this summer as Democrats grew increasingly frustrated with his refusal to assure Senate action.

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President Trump, Weatherman: Dorian Updates and at Least 122 Tweets

WASHINGTON — Over the long weekend, President Trump monitored Hurricane Dorian from a golf cart at his club in Virginia, calling for regular updates from an aide trailing him around the course. By 8 p.m. Monday, as Dorian churned toward Florida and Mr. Trump’s boarded-up Mar-a-Lago resort, the president had golfed twice and since Saturday morning pelted the American public with 122 tweets.

As he has done during other hurricanes, Mr. Trump awaited landfall by assuming the role of meteorologist in chief, adding weatherman-style updates to a usual weekend routine of attacking his enemies, retweeting bits of praise and critiquing the performance of his cable news allies.

Starting with his first weekend tweet at 7:45 a.m. Saturday, Mr. Trump’s Dorian-related tweets were delivered with the speed of a hailstorm.

With his reality-show approach to the presidency, Mr. Trump has a habit of weighing in on the day’s most-covered news stories with his own running commentary. As Dorian approached, Mr. Trump switched into town-crier mode, updating the public on what he had learned — or, what he thought he’d learned — from government officials as Dorian threatened the coast of the state of Florida, where he has owned property for decades.

“In addition to Florida — South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama, will most likely be hit (much) harder than anticipated,” Mr. Trump wrote in a tweet shortly after departing Camp David for Washington on Sunday morning. “Looking like one of the largest hurricanes ever. Already category 5. BE CAREFUL! GOD BLESS EVERYONE!”

Mr. Trump’s commentary on the hurricane was not wholly accurate. The National Weather Service quickly walked back one of his assertions: “We repeat, no impacts from Hurricane Dorian will be felt across Alabama,” officials said on Twitter.

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Trump displays map with Dorian's original path extended toward Alabama



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The President of the United States altered a National Hurricane Center map with a sharpie to falsely extend the official forecast toward Alabama so he didn't have to admit he was wrong in a tweet. https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1169300628000124929 …

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President Trump on Wednesday displayed a map that he said reflected Hurricane Dorian's original path, but the image appeared to be manually altered with a marker to show the storm's trajectory continuing toward Alabama.

Trump later told reporters that he did not know anything about the changed map, but was adamant that original forecasts called for Alabama to be impacted by the hurricane.
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Trump tweeted Sunday that Alabama could be among the states affected by Dorian. But the National Weather Service in Birmingham tweeted a short time later that was not the case, and that the hurricane system would remain too far east.

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They spoke about that on my local news this morning, you know he's doing some dumb shit when they talk about it. What does dump truck use to sign things with? A black sharpie. What does the dumb ass say when reporters ask him why it appears sharpie was used to extend the map? "Oh, I don't know anything about that."

Fucking. Moron.
 
They spoke about that on my local news this morning, you know he's doing some dumb shit when they talk about it. What does dump truck use to sign things with? A black sharpie. What does the dumb ass say when reporters ask him why it appears sharpie was used to extend the map? "Oh, I don't know anything about that."

Fucking. Moron.

Think about that for a moment.. We have the President of the United States of America repeatedly claiming he has no knowledge of how the State of Alabama became included by sharpie of those States to face the brunt force of a hurricane. Neither does the Pretender in Chief appear to have any curiosity of finding how exactly that sharpie line came to be there.
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He doesn't even realize that he's doing nothing but bringing more attention to what a moron he is by constantly tweeting about it. You are an embarrassment to the entire human species, you fuck. Go sit down and shut up.

Side note, I saw a poll that Biden leads trump like 54 to 38 with variations through different polls but Biden has a solid 10+ point lead across the board. Now, I ain't putting stock into polls anymore but it gives me a teensy bit of hope.

When trump supporters call Biden a perv or how he says stupid shit sometimes, I just laugh and laugh.

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Sharpiegate

Trump defends his Alabama forecast as Dorian bears down on Carolinas

"What we're seeing there is literally pathetic," Buttigieg, a Democratic presidential candidate, told CNN. "It makes you feel a kind of pity for everybody involved, and that's not how I want to feel about the president — whether it's for my party or the other."


President Donald Trump insisted once again on Thursday that initial weather forecasts put Alabama potentially within Hurricane Dorian’s destructive path, blasting media accounts of his dubious meteorological claim as “Fake News in order to demean!”

“In the early days of the hurricane, when it was predicted that Dorian would go through Miami or West Palm Beach, even before it reached the Bahamas, certain models strongly suggested that Alabama & Georgia would be hit as it made its way through Florida & to the Gulf,” Trump tweeted.

“Instead it turned North and went up the coast, where it continues now,” he continued in a second post. “In the one model through Florida, the Great State of Alabama would have been hit or grazed. In the path it took, no. Read my FULL FEMA statement. What I said was accurate! All Fake News in order to demean!”

Trump on Wednesday was the subject of online mockery after an Oval Office storm briefing in which he showed off an apparently doctored National Hurricane Center projection of Dorian’s early trajectory that appeared to be hand-altered to include Alabama.

But when asked about what looked like a conspicuous Sharpie mark on the federal forecast at an event later in the afternoon, Trump repeatedly said “I don’t know,” and announced the White House would issue “a better map” with “many models” advising that “in all cases Alabama was hit, if not likely, in some cases pretty hard.”

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...-down-on-carolinas/ar-AAGQVto?ocid=spartanntp
 
See what I mean? Like shut up, you are embarrassing yourself. You were wrong. Drop it, don't double down and show doctored maps. He's been wrong about damn near everything that he's ever shit out but he's going to die on this Alabama/hurricane hill? Fucking ridiculous.

~ @DIAFplease ~

# 1 … Trump is incapable of shutting his yap even when it would behoove him greatly to do so.

# 2 … Embarrassment and Trump have long been joined at the hip. He is unfazed by it.

# 3 … Fucking Ridiculous has been attached to Donald Trump for so long that the story goes that his children thought it was part of their last name.

Donnie Fucking Ridiculous Trump, Eric Fucking Ridiculous Trump and so on ….
 
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Can you believe that the Pretender in Chief has double downed and tripled downed on Sharpie-Gate???


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What to do with such a braying ass that cannot be depended upon to tell the American people the truth even when in time of crisis! The saddest thing is that we the people more or less have become conditioned to the fact that the Pretender and Truth don't even have a nodding acquaintance. When there is no truth there can be no trust.

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Grown ass women getting all excited like the windowlicking, short-bus riding trolls that they are, over something inconsequential... Tell me again how the Mueller Report is going to take POTUS down? Oh yeah, you can't... :rolleyes:
 
Grown ass women getting all excited like the windowlicking, short-bus riding trolls that they are, over something inconsequential... Tell me again how the Mueller Report is going to take POTUS down? Oh yeah, you can't... :rolleyes:

First, I never said that the Mueller report would 'take the Pretender down. He was tasked to investigate and deliver his report.

You come on the board and employed what can only be seen as grade school taunts of 'widow licking and riding the short bus.' You should be shamed by those comments. I know that I am shamed for you.

Oh … and yeah. I think any time the Pretender directly lies to the American people for whatever reason to be a matter of consequence.

This is the image that popped into my head after reading your above post.

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Stop being such a child and grow the fuck up.
 
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