Phil1111

This may be an easier chew to understand republicans, Rand Paul and libertarian theory. From an August 2014 New York Times Magazine feature, with the headline, “Has the ‘Libertarian Moment’ Finally Arrived?” to today. The End of the Libertarian Dream?

But not on issues like Covid."The Cato Institute is an American libertarian think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C. It was founded as the Charles Koch Foundation" Libertarianism and the Coronavirus Pandemic How no lockdowns, no mandatory mask use and "personal choice" actually works in covid real life: Example #1 the north. Example #2 the south.

Thats good, yours? At this stage of his presidency that order is all about posturing to the base. Not about structural reform. Given how trump has run the WH Joe is on point as usual. Because in the WH everyone with brains or competence has been fired and yes men hired.

Till the gagging smell of roasting flesh causes Joe to react.

President trump has used the threats of violence before. The dog whistles of fear and white power to rally his supporters. As business and merchants have begun to board up their windows in anticipation of a violent election Tuesday and onward. Will trump use his base to negotiate a responsibility free exit from office. Use his base to negotiate get out of jail cards for himself and his crime family? Using the rationale of Black Lives Matter rioting and protests. To justify the same response from his own base, his own white power- right wing supremacist supporters. All in a effort to wipe clean his personal history, his personal conduct over the last four years. "Many of the officials I spoke to came back to one idea: You don’t know Donald Trump like we do. Even though they can’t predict exactly what will happen, their concerns range from the president welcoming, then leveraging, foreign interference in the election, to encouraging havoc that grows into conflagrations that would merit his calling upon U.S. forces. Because he is now surrounded by loyalists, they say, there is no one to try to tell an impulsive man what he should or shouldn’t do. “That guy you saw in the debate,” a second former senior intelligence official told me, after the first debate, when the president offered one of the most astonishing performances of any leader in modern American history — bullying, ridiculing, manic, boasting, fabricating, relentlessly interrupting and talking over his opponent. “That’s really him. Not the myth that’s been created. That’s Trump.” Still another senior government official, who spent years working in proximity to Mr. Trump, put it like this: “He has done nothing else that’s a constant, except for acting in his own interest.” And that’s how “he’s going to be thinking, every step of the way, come Nov. 3.”

You know the Bermuda Triangle is dead ahead. Then you hoist topsails.The crew must act.

With the proper mix of fear and division in the messaging of course.

FIFY

Joe is very very sleepy now, What happens when sailors can't keep their eyes open at 0400.

Perhaps there should a poll about how many lawsuits are served upon trump(and Don Jr, Ivanka, Jared, et al) in the first year out of office. "In every regard, his leaving office makes it easier for prosecutors and plaintiffs in civil cases to pursue their cases against him," said Harry Sandick, a former federal prosecutor in the Manhattan US attorney's office. "For example, he is claiming a higher protection from subpoenas in the criminal cases and also in the congressional subpoena cases, [and that] is based largely on the fact that he is President." Some have suggested a formal apparatus for investigating Trump after he leaves office. Rep. Eric Swalwell, a California Democrat, has floated the creation of a "Presidential Crimes Commission," made up of independent prosecutors who can examine "those who enabled a corrupt president," as he put it in an August tweet. "Example 1: Sabotaging the mail to win an election." The most serious legal threat facing Trump is the Manhattan district attorney's broad criminal investigation into the financial workings of the Trump Organization. Prosecutors have suggested in court filings that the investigation could examine whether the President and his company engaged in bank fraud, insurance fraud, criminal tax fraud and falsification of business records.

But who will give up first? jakee is brilliant at beating a dead horse. But Coreece insists upon mouth to mouth in a vain attempt to bring that dead horse back to life.

What you fail to address in that equation is the power of the most powerful lobby group in the US. They pay for. influence the ideas with the GOP and its base that "free market competition" is the best for America. That with single payer, i.e. "socialism" costs will skyrocket and people will have to give up their doctors. All of which is b.s. and most of which is influenced by these industries protecting their profits. The GOP needs the milk from these lobby cows and only a blue president, house and senate. Will ever introduce reforms that are used in the rest of the developed western world. That effectively would save about 3% of GDP(U.S.) and yet would deliver better outcomes.

Tell Kim he's in "love" with him? While Kim builds 7-9 nukes a year and develops new ICBMs while sanctions were softened. Yeah trump is slick for anyone without a college degree and those with testosterone in abundance instead of brains. Which is probably why women won't vote for him. But lets talk about fracking and the real issues that its dying. "Well productivity has peaked, while prime drilling areas may soon be fully tapped. Meanwhile, shale oil and gas companies — from pure plays such as EQT (EQT) to oil majors Exxon Mobil (XOM) and Chevron (CVX) — haven't generated returns.... The growth phase of the shale boom is "screeching to a halt," says Raoul LeBlanc, vice president for energy at IHS Markit. "We expect zero growth next year, and if the coronavirus continues, we could have negative growth this year." LeBlanc sees big reasons for the abrupt slowdown that have nothing to do with the Covid-19 virus. "The technology has largely matured," he said. After a period of big well productivity gains, "we've largely optimized what we can do." Further, the best ground for drilling will be exhausted in about five years, LeBlanc says. Another reason is all about cash. Shale companies simply haven't made much money from the fracking revolution. "This is one of the most capital-intensive businesses in the world," LeBlanc said. "Investors that were willing to fund this massive growth are starting to focus on profitability and getting money back," LeBlanc said. That means spending less on drilling new wells.' But why would you hear that from trump supporters and the GOP. It plays good for the ignorant and those who haven't seen a return on their investments in fracking. "In the long run, demand for oil is uncertain, at best. Fear is starting to decapitalize the sector, compounding the lousy returns and making it easy for people to say 'I'm not going to invest here,' " LeBlanc said. Chesapeake Energy (CHK), once the No. 2 gas producer, has lost 99% of its value as it struggles under $9 billion in debt. Shale gas development has been "an unmitigated disaster" for investors, says Steve Schlotterbeck, former CEO of No. 1 natural gas producer EQT, whose stock has fallen 90% from its mid-2014 peak. Bankruptcies among fracking-focused exploration and production companies covered $26 billion in debt held by 42 firms last year. That doubled the $13 billion in debt a year earlier, according to law firm Hayes & Boone. Then there is the environmental damages of fracking. "The Rystad Energy research and consulting firm says venting and burning of excess natural gas production from the Permian basin hit 810 million cubic feet per day last year. That's more than enough to power every home in Texas." So trump and his supporters want to cheer and applaud an industry that has never, NEVER generated a cent in overall returns for their investors. "Here's the big picture: Shale oil and gas companies have produced energy security for the U.S. even as most have failed to produce positive cash flow. They've been running on a treadmill, constantly plowing oil and gas proceeds back into new wells. Now investors want off the treadmill." ROI hell I was wrong can't even generate positive cash flow let alone a return on investment for shareholders. Now lets deal with the cost to close off and seal fracked wells that are no longer producing or are abandoned. Currently its about $300,000 per well. The companies that have gone bankrupt leave those costs to the state to pay. Tens of thousands of wells at $300k a well. All to be funded by US taxpayers.

trump's homelessness plan: "Diane Yentel, the president and chief executive of the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC), noted on Thursday that Trump had proposed drastically shrinking or eliminating federal programs that keep the lowest-income people affordably housed, an important prevention measure that keeps people from becoming homeless. “In California, over 37,000 of the lowest-income people are at risk of eviction from this Trump proposal alone,” Yentel said. She also noted that Trump’s Department of Housing and Urban Development had “proposed allowing homeless shelters to discriminate and refuse shelter to transgender and other LGBTQ people, subjecting them to high risk of violence”. @realDonaldTrump The homeless situation in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and many other Democrat Party run cities throughout the Nation is a state and local problem, not a federal problem.... 5:50 PM · Jan 6, 2020 The White House budget proposal released Monday calls for $2.8 billion for homelessness assistance grants in fiscal 2021, roughly in line with current levels. The budget would slash the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s overall funding by 15 percent to $47.9 billion." That should completely cover the trump/GOP homelessness agenda. "Not my responsibility" pretty much covers it.

Either that or she should head directly to Hollywood where stardom awaits.

Priceless, thanks for that.

Wait till Liberty University calls Michael Cohen to testify about the kinky pictures that they were involved in concealing. This whole action is a p.r stunt . There is no way Falwell can let the university dig into how the pool boy sex toy for him and his wife got into substantial investments at the expense of Liberty University.

-First major evangelical leader to endorse trump. -Defender of all of trumps transgressions. Regarding trump: "Most Evangelicals thought I was a little nuts for supporting him," Falwell, 58, tweeted in July. "By now, he has proven beyond any doubt that he's worthy of the support of the entire Evangelical community!" -The Times reported that Trump and Falwell's relationship dates to September 2012, when the former gave a speech at Liberty's convocation. In March, in a call with actor and frequent Trump critic Tom Arnold,trump Lawyer Cohen was recorded saying he helped the Falwells try to stop the release of "a bunch of photographs, personal photographs," Reuters reported. "These are photos between husband and wife," Cohen, 54, said on the call with Arnold, adding as a punchline "the evangelicals are kinkier than Tom Arnold." Details of what the photos contain have never been independently corroborated. While Cohen did not identify the "guy" who had them, he talked of a "pool boy," according to the Times. Speaking with Politico this week, Granda( the pool boy) offered his take. The then-Liberty president "admired Trump’s strongman public persona,” he said. The images were destroyed once Cohen became involved, the Times and Reuters reported." Falwell has remained a staunch supporter of Trump, saying in late 2016 that he and the president had discussed him becoming Education Secretary. Falwell also appeared at a 2018 watch party for the midterm elections along with the president, according to Politico. His wife has been an adviser for Women for Trump, according to Reuters." The only group more corrupt, sexually more deprived than the trump crime family are evangelicals. As if you didn't know.

How about the use of the DOJ to defend trump for sexual assault? The Attorney General defending trump personally for sexual assault.

There are more classic terms for what happened here. Scam, corruption, racketeering. Alex M. Azar II, the health secretary initiated a public health fund PR campaign to help trump win re-election. They scoured for celebrities and anything they could find to paint trump's work on the covid issue in a positive light. “Defeat despair” around the coronavirus was planned partly around the politically tinged theme that “helping the president will help the country,” "Dr. Robert R. Redfield, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, testified in September that $300 million had been steered from his agency’s budget to Mr. Caputo’s office, and that the C.D.C. was given no role in the campaign, which aimed to “defeat despair.” The total spent is over a quarter of a billion dollars. Just to run a pro trump pr re-election campaign All using public money from the CDC and other US government sources. Yet the GOP decided that addition funding for covid relief was "unnecessary".

The SC dead center statement of the year.

The entire wording of that press release is something that you could expect from the press official of Saddam Hussein. Self serving b.s specifically crafted to appeal to trump personally.. No wonder engineers,doctors, scientists are laughing stock for the WH-Stephen Miller gaslighing machine.

White House science office takes credit for 'ending' pandemic as infections mount The White House’s science policy office on Tuesday ranked “ending the Covid-19 pandemic” atop the list of President Donald Trump’s top first-term accomplishments, even as the country registers record amounts of infections and hospitals fill up again. The list, included in a press release from the Office of Science and Technology Policy credits the administration for taking “decisive actions to engage scientists and health professionals in academia, industry, and government to understand, treat, and defeat the disease.” Everyone should read that press release to understand the drivel coming from the WH.

I don't know what searches you tried because it was widely reported. Subsequently the WH reported that it was a mistake to have stated that. They may have amended that report to remove that statement. But obviously somebody included and/or approved it in the original report.