What's Trump Done Now?

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Cliffy said:
“Trump came to power as the repudiation of the Republican establishment. But the conservative political class and the new leader soon reached an understanding. Whatever their differences on issues like trade and immigration, they shared a basic goal: to strip-mine public assets for the benefit of private interests. Republican politicians and donors who wanted government to do as little as possible for the common good could live happily with a regime that barely knew how to govern at all, and they made themselves Trump’s footmen.
Like a wanton boy throwing matches in a parched field, Trump began to immolate what was left of national civic life. He never even pretended to be president of the whole country, but pitted us against one another along lines of race, sex, religion, citizenship, education, region, and—every day of his presidency—political party. His main tool of governance was to lie. A third of the country locked itself in a hall of mirrors that it believed to be reality; a third drove itself mad with the effort to hold on to the idea of knowable truth; and a third gave up even trying.
Trump acquired a federal government crippled by years of right-wing ideological assault, politicization by both parties, and steady defunding. He set about finishing off the job and destroying the professional civil service. He drove out some of the most talented and experienced career officials, left essential positions unfilled, and installed loyalists as commissars over the cowed survivors, with one purpose: to serve his own interests. His major legislative accomplishment, one of the largest tax cuts in history, sent hundreds of billions of dollars to corporations and the rich. The beneficiaries flocked to patronize his resorts and line his reelection pockets. If lying was his means for using power, corruption was his end.”
This was the American landscape that lay open to the virus: in prosperous cities, a class of globally connected desk workers dependent on a class of precarious and invisible service workers; in the countryside, decaying communities in revolt against the modern world; on social media, mutual hatred and endless vituperation among different camps; in the economy, even with full employment, a large and growing gap between triumphant capital and beleaguered labor; in Washington, an empty government led by a con man and his intellectually bankrupt party; around the country, a mood of cynical exhaustion, with no vision of a shared identity or future.
We Are Living in a Failed State
The coronavirus didn’t break America. It revealed what was already broken.
More: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/06/underlying-conditions/610261
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Prog shit.
 
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The Liar Tweets Tonight
by Roy Zimmerman and The ReZisters, featuring Sandy Riccardi. “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” words and music by Solomon Linda. Parody lyrics by Ede Morris, Roy Zimmerman, Melanie Harby.
 
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Cliffy said:
The Liar Tweets Tonight
by Roy Zimmerman and The ReZisters, featuring Sandy Riccardi. “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” words and music by Solomon Linda. Parody lyrics by Ede Morris, Roy Zimmerman, Melanie Harby.
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Which prog journalist are they singing about?
 
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Avro52 said:
I’m not a Trudeau defender nor did I vote for him. Why do you care what I care about? Why do you defend Trump?
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I do what I do . But one thing I know for a fact , I am far more concerned with the Canadian fiscal position than our neighbours to the south
 
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Avro52 said:
Great News! Govenor Kemp of Georgia is opening beeches, gyms, resturants, movie theatres, bowling alleys, and hair & nail salons! South Carolina is opening up retail stores! Tennessee SOON! Now the 700,000 Americans who have MILD Covid 19 symptoms have a place to go for vacation!

-DJT
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Great , drove by two beaches this afternoon , many people out enjoying the sunshine .
 
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Cliffy said:
“Trump came to power as the repudiation of the Republican establishment. But the conservative political class and the new leader soon reached an understanding. Whatever their differences on issues like trade and immigration, they shared a basic goal: to strip-mine public assets for the benefit of private interests. Republican politicians and donors who wanted government to do as little as possible for the common good could live happily with a regime that barely knew how to govern at all, and they made themselves Trump’s footmen.
Like a wanton boy throwing matches in a parched field, Trump began to immolate what was left of national civic life. He never even pretended to be president of the whole country, but pitted us against one another along lines of race, sex, religion, citizenship, education, region, and—every day of his presidency—political party. His main tool of governance was to lie. A third of the country locked itself in a hall of mirrors that it believed to be reality; a third drove itself mad with the effort to hold on to the idea of knowable truth; and a third gave up even trying.
Trump acquired a federal government crippled by years of right-wing ideological assault, politicization by both parties, and steady defunding. He set about finishing off the job and destroying the professional civil service. He drove out some of the most talented and experienced career officials, left essential positions unfilled, and installed loyalists as commissars over the cowed survivors, with one purpose: to serve his own interests. His major legislative accomplishment, one of the largest tax cuts in history, sent hundreds of billions of dollars to corporations and the rich. The beneficiaries flocked to patronize his resorts and line his reelection pockets. If lying was his means for using power, corruption was his end.”
This was the American landscape that lay open to the virus: in prosperous cities, a class of globally connected desk workers dependent on a class of precarious and invisible service workers; in the countryside, decaying communities in revolt against the modern world; on social media, mutual hatred and endless vituperation among different camps; in the economy, even with full employment, a large and growing gap between triumphant capital and beleaguered labor; in Washington, an empty government led by a con man and his intellectually bankrupt party; around the country, a mood of cynical exhaustion, with no vision of a shared identity or future.


We Are Living in a Failed State

The coronavirus didn’t break America. It revealed what was already broken.


More: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/06/underlying-conditions/610261
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They should make you president , you seem to know it all . Oh right some other guy said all that .
 
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pgs said:
I do what I do . But one thing I know for a fact , I am far more concerned with the Canadian fiscal position than our neighbours to the south
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First post today and this is where you go.

To funny.
 
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So-called scientists say that MY CURE for Coronaviris - Hydroxychloroquine - does NOT help patients! Loser scientists say the studies show that MY DRUG causes patients to die! But the studies were done on Brazilians and French - who don't even speak English! TEST IT ON AMERICANS!

-DJT
 
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spilledthebeer said:
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!! touched a nerve HE SUGGESTS!


Sounds to me like you pulled it up by the roots!


DO IT AGAIN! Cockwomble Cliffy NEEDS the intellectual stimulus!
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It's strange how some people can be completely unhappy before they are happy. :)
 
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How much of a perv do you have to be to be the guy that makes Epstein double-over? Even Jeffrey was ‘like damn bro, that’s nasty’.

 
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