America's Monster, tRump

Finally, some sort of hint, about why there are no dogs in tRump's life.

Ivanka and her brothers had no love from their father, when they were in diapers. Their mother had to do it all. Baby poop is not sexy or beautiful.


tRump talks about dogs

“How would I look walking a dog on the White House lawn?,” he asks, before grimacing and shaking his head no.

“I don’t know — it doesn’t — I don’t feel good,” he manged to get out. “Feels a little phony to me.”

For once, tRump does not have ready quips.
"I don't feel good."

What was he thinking of, when he said that?

Perhaps, he had the image of a dog relieving itself.

Dog poop is not sexy or beautiful.

Children and dogs have accidents.

tRump pretended to get a dog for a Barron.
(Nothing about it was real. Just propaganda.
No puppy arrived,)

Dog is the word that tRump uses, to insult people.

Did tRump beg money from Putin, like a dog ?

What causes tRump to cover everything with gold ?
To the point, that he demands gold toilets ?

Does trump have a poop fetish ?
Does Putin have proof ?

Poop is not "classy."

Why is tRump "pooping on" El Paso ?

Once, again tRump is faced with someone that is loved,
unconditionally. Beto O'Rourke is accepted for what he is.
The people of El Paso support him, and most of the people
living there are of Mexican heritage.
It is a Democrat town.


Trump Charged Supporters $15K Per Selfie at 2020 Campaign Event

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-charged-supporters-15k-per-202044926.html

Eleanor Montague
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BBC Washington News Editor, previously BBC News World Cup producer and Defence and Security producer
bbc.co.uk/news

Eleanor Montague
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Just attended my first ⁦@realDonaldTrump⁩ rally where my colleague BBC cameraman Rob Skeans was attacked by a Trump supporter. The crowd had been whipped up into a frenzy against the media by Trump and other speakers all night #TrumpElPaso

9:36 PM - 11 Feb 2019

Reports of Trump supporters that are not from El Paso.

tRump attempts false equivalence

tRump's policy resulted in two dead children, and a dead baby.

According to tRump, a dead baby, from one of his I.C.E torture chambers for immigrants, is the same as a doctor saving a pregnant woman's life.

To tRump I say- "Your policy resulted in an Executed Baby."


On 5 February, President Donald Trump himself attacked Northam’s abortion remarks during the State of the Union address, claiming the Virginia governor had “stated he would execute a baby after birth."

tRump speech at El Paso rally

“The governor states that he would even allow a new born baby to come out into the world, and wrap the baby, and make the baby comfortable. And then talk to the mother and talk to the father, and then execute the baby! Execute the baby!,” Trump said to raucous jeers and booing from the crowd.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-northam-defended-executing-babies-133846064.html

Trump stayed off the golf course for about 69 days

[during the shutdown]

Washington Post writes that the golf simulator was installed at around the same time the president was presiding over the longest federal government shutdown in American history.

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/02/trump-gets-new-executive-time-toy-50000-state-art-golf-simulator/

President Trump installed a room-sized golf simulator at White House


President Trump has installed a room-sized “golf simulator” game at the White House, which allows him to play virtual rounds at courses all over the world by hitting a ball into a large video screen, according to two people told about the system.

That system replaced an older, less sophisticated simulator that had been installed under President Barack Obama, according to two people with knowledge of the previous system.

Trump’s system cost about $50,000, and was put in during the last few weeks in a room in his personal quarters, a White House official said.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...3f6d5c-2e45-11e9-813a-0ab2f17e305b_story.html

El Paso's Republican Mayor Dee Margo publicly contradicted tRump on the success of El Paso’s border wall, before the big rally


Overheard in “The Beast” (Trump's 'presidential" heavily armored custom Cadillac) on the way to President Trump’s El Paso rally



Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller (R) said he told Trump to shake it off, because “they [the city of El Paso] pad the books,” suggesting that the city underreports crime rates.

(Miller said he learned this while serving as the former chairman of the Texas House committee on Homeland Security and Public Safety. However, Axios has found no evidence to corroborate this claim.)

Trump replied: “You mean like fake news?”


Miller said: “Yeah! It was the first fake news.”


Trump: “Can I say that [at the rally]?”


Miller: “Yeah!”


Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick then chimed in: “No, no. You probably shouldn’t.”

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/02/trump-finish-the-wall-broken-promise.html

Trump calls it “pretty incredible” that first responders rush to danger to save “people they don’t even know. Sociopaths can’t understand that people actually want to help others.

http://my.chicagotribune.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-112860499/

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Trump calls it “pretty incredible” that first responders rush to danger to save “people they don’t even know”

12:41 PM - 13 Feb 2019

Today, Trump spoke at the Major County Sheriffs and Major Cities Chiefs Association Joint Conference, which led him to say something truly bizarre while completely exposing one of his biggest character flaws. Earlier today, CNBC reporter John Harwood reported that Trump was absolutely beside himself that first responders would save complete strangers:

Trump calls it “pretty incredible” that first responders rush to danger to save “people they don’t even know”

— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) February 13, 2019

Trump is so far gone in his sociopathic nature that he can’t even realize what’s wrong with his statement or why people would be alarmed. This is exactly why he should have never gotten into the White House. Throughout his entire presidency, he has only cared about one person — himself. It makes total sense that he wouldn’t understand the empathy and courage of first responders or why anyone would want to save the lives of their fellow humans. Trump doesn’t have the ability to feel empathy.

http://dctribune.org/trump-makes-bi...t-police-conference-shows-his-true-character/

They pressured America's Monster to do his tedious chores, when he wanted to go out and play.


Generating headlines and sound bites for the news media, is not as much fun, when the cheering section is missing.

Blockbuster mini series!

The anthill is roiling about something different.


Donald Trump Seemed Bored While Declaring a National Emergency

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/02/trump-seemed-bored-while-declaring-a-national-emergency.html

Donald Trump was late, but nearly everyone could see him. On Friday morning, the press was in the Rose Garden for a scheduled 10:00 a.m. announcement regarding the president’s decision to both sign a bipartisan deal to finance the government and, with fishy justification, declare a national emergency to fund a border wall.

As 10:00 came and went, Trump remained in the Oval Office, which I know because there are French doors connecting it to the Rose Garden. Seen through the glass, he appeared to be craning his neck downward, as though reviewing documents or something; a reporter with better eyesight noted that he was holding a binder, and sure enough, there was a binder on the Resolute Desk in a photo posted a few minutes later by Sarah Huckabee Sanders, in which Trump signed the kind of spending deal — one that doesn’t pay for the construction of a border wall, or border barrier, or steel slats, or whatever the term is right now — that he repeatedly said he didn’t want to sign.

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/02/trump-seemed-bored-while-declaring-a-national-emergency.html


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Trump in Palm Beach: Tweet about border security from golf course palmbeachpost.com/news/20190216/…

10:23 AM - 16 Feb 2019

Trump in Palm Beach: Tweet about border security from golf course
12:26 p.m.In his first tweet of the day Saturday, Trump shared a video of his speech at the Rose Garden Friday, posted by the White House Twitter account about 30 minutes prior.

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They Broke The Magic Spell

One of the protective manoeuvres that allowed America's Monster, tRump, to escape getting mired in the deep end, was tRump's ability to "be as hard to pin down, (as to meaning of his words) as it is to nail down jello."

It was once common, to have a flurry of tRump "spokesmen and spokeswomen," rush out to the news cameras, and give their separate interpretations for what tRump said.

"He is joking."
"He was kidding."
"He was being saracastic."
"He mispoke."
"He was mis-informed."
"He misunderstood."
"He lied. So, what ?"
"Not his fault."

That ended, when tRump stopped responding to reporters, and retreated to tweeting.


The glitch occured when Jim Acosta refused to give up a microphone while trying to ask a question of tRump.

tRump switched to being "virtually" present, to avoid direct confrontation, and all events are strictly controlled, closed venue.

His tRump Loyalists followed his example. They run away from being questioned, or have security intervene. The latest example in police shoving members of the press, to prevent any questions from getting asked.


As Roll Call reported Friday, Capitol Police pushed and "slammed into" reporters on Thursday afternoon around the time that senators were voting on the spending bill. The police attempted to prevent reporters from speaking to lawmakers—a practice that is common in the Senate basement, where the incident took place.

It's what happens in totalitarian regime.

Capitol Police crackdown on press escalates to physical altercation

via@RollCall

— rjbrennan (@rjbrennan) February 16, 2019

Suzanne Nossel, CEO of PEN America, called Roll Call's report a "disturbing account," while the National Press Club said in a statement that Capitol Police's actions "contravened the chamber's long-standing bipartisan practice of supporting journalists’ access to lawmakers."

Disturbing account of Capitol police manhandling @NBCNews' @LACaldwellDC and another reporter as they tried to question Senators about the purported national emergency #pressfreedom

— Suzanne Nossel (@SuzanneNossel) February 14, 2019



Look at how far Sarah Huckabee Sanders's persona has tranformed. Her statements are now completely divorced from reality.



FFS, "The Wall" began as a word to promt tRump to remember to signal permissiveness toward hatred against immigrant minorities. Just a symbol.

No, tRump is up against "The Wall."

(The Walls are closing in ?)

Revision

More facets, more faces to a simple statement.

tRump and his "I don't feel good" statement to the public, said in public during a photo-op.


tRump's statements have been described as word salad, before.

It has recently been stated that tRump has been having trouble with his words.


It is possible that he caught himself thinking out loud, and was ambivalent about speaking to the public how he feels about his public image.


He might have been trying to articulate ", I don't feel good about associating the image of a lowly, person with a menial job, that attends to the needs of his own dog.'

"This conflicts directly with the hard-won image that my father and I crafted over decades."


"Powerful, wealthy, highly-placed, important men, do not walk dogs. Their wives may have dogs, and the wives have aides and assistants that will hire someone to it."


Here is the RED ZONE: Do Not Enter
tRump's Past


At one point in tRump's young life, he served his father, by directly interacting with tenants, to get rent money from them. He refers to the renters as low class. The renters had pet dogs.



There is no way on Earth, that tRump can tolerate associating his current exalted self, with nobodies living in government subsidized housing, in New Jersey.


But, still there is that element of macho, that conflicts.

Hard headed, hard hearted, serious 'killer" businessmen do not cuddle doggies, and take them for walkies.

Either way, tRump unintentionally lifted the Wizard of OZ curtain. His son Barron may grow up to mimic Downton Abbey, and leisurely walk the property with his favorite dog. tRump rides on his land in a golf cart. Golf is where men talk about business and deals.

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Here's a weird piece of trivia. Apparently Congress has Constitutional powers as well. And apparently the nation's Founders took those powers seriously because they saw how having a king worked out. Who knew?

8:46 AM - 16 Feb 2019

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The Constitution should not be considered a mere speed bump in the path of a reckless driver.


8:30 AM - 16 Feb 2019


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"A wall, a wall! My presidency for a wall!" ...or a fence... or steel slats... or a metaphor... or claiming victory in defeat...

3:10 PM - 12 Feb 2019

Mike Luckovich's political cartoon

(dated 2/20/19)

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3:23 PM - 19 Feb 2019


Tourists are taking in the spectacle of the white House, and they are witnesses to a sight on the white House lawn, that they never expected.

An extremly long red tie isflapping in the breeze.

tRump is running away from Mcgruff, the cartoon crime fighting dog.


Comment from one of the tourists

"Trump finally got a dog."

There was a reason for tRump's howling session

Rachel Maddow MSNBC
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This is a big deal. twitter.com/kylegriffin1/s…

5:11 PM - 2 Mar 2019

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Maxine Waters, the House Financial Services chair, says Deutsche Bank is cooperating with her Committee. She says Committee staff are going to Deutsche Bank and are now coordinating with the bank to begin reviewing documents related to Trump's finances.


5:00 AM - 2 Mar 2019


All In w/Chris Hayes
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Rep. Maxine Waters tell Chris Hayes that Deutsche Bank is cooperating with her committee.


6:06 PM - 1 Mar 2019

Yes, that is a big deal.

The next dem president is going to have a rocky road when all these swamp tactics are used against him. Pandora's Box you've opened LOL

Scotland hates tRump.

Scotland beats ‘three time loser’ Trump in legal battle — and now he owes the government money.

According to the BBC, the exact sum that the Trump Organization will owe the Scottish government has not been disclosed.

https://www.alternet.org/2019/03/re...-battle-and-now-he-owes-the-government-money/

The Washington Post’s David Fahrenth commented on the ruling on Twitter, posting, “Here’s a reverse-emoluments case that the Founding Fathers didn’t plan for…what happens when @realDonaldTrump owes a large debt *to* a foreign government? In Scotland, it’s happening.”

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In Scotland, @realDonaldTrump fought the Scottish govt over a windfarm that would alter the view from his golf course. He lost. Now, a court says he's also got to pay his opponents' legal fees.

6:52 PM - 28 Feb 2019

Scottish government wins Donald Trump wind power legal costs

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-47400641


Ethics watchdogs decry tweet boosting Trump International

A tweet in which Donald Trump extolled the virtues of his golf course near Aberdeen was “shameless, corrupt and repugnant”, a leading US ethics expert said.

Walter Shaub, a former head of the independent US Office of Government Ethics, wrote: “This is Trump’s most explicit commingling of personal interests and public office to date. This is the tone from the top that leads his appointees to violate ethics rules. This is shameless, corrupt and repugnant presidential profiteering. This is an invitation to graft.”


Citizens for Ethics
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There it is. The president is using an official statement as an ad for his business and making sure everyone knows he ties his business to US relationships with foreign countries.


5:48 AM - 2 Mar 2019


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Very proud of perhaps the greatest golf course anywhere in the world. Also, furthers U.K. relationship!

embedded in tweet

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"The landscape framework of (tRump private property in Scotland) comes close to an ideal. There is nothing missing & there are no weak holes." Dr. Martin Hawtree

2:41 PM - 26 Feb 2019

(hired by tRump, Dr. Martin Hawtree praises his own landscape planning)

5:31 AM - 2 Mar 2019


Walter Shaub
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@waltshaub

This is Trump’s most explicit commingling of personal interests and public office to date. This is the tone from the top that leads his appointees to violate ethics rules. This is shameless, corrupt and repugnant presidential profiteering. This is an invitation to graft.


7:41 AM - 2 Mar 2019

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/02/trump-tweet-aberdeen-golf-course-corrupt-repugnant

fucking liberal twats.


Cant even add.. hell if any one of you counted your fingers 3 times, youd end up with 5 different numbers, none of which would be correct.

Trump whipped up public emotion over Otto Warmbier's death. Now it's boomeranging back on him.

Having once relied on the Warmbiers to bestow moral authority on his risky North Korea strategy, Trump has lost a crucial partnership at the worst time, as the general public relates to the renewed pain of a family that feels betrayed by the president.

Fred and Cindy Warmbier, Otto's parents, initially were thrilled by Trump's attention.


Warmbier's parents had grown frustrated with the Obama administration for not securing their son's release, although former officials said in interviews Saturday that they faced a virtual news blackout for more than six months as Pyongyang cut off communications.


Trump has boasted repeatedly of freeing Warmbier, including in a tweet Friday when he wrote: "Remember, I got Otto out along with three others. The previous Administration did nothing, and he was taken on their watch."

But experts said Kim likely released Warmbier because his condition had deteriorated and the North Korean leader did not want the American to die in custody.

In December, the family won a $500 million legal judgment in federal court against North Korea for Otto's torture and killing.


Original article

Trump whipped up public emotion over Otto Warmbier’s death. Now it’s boomeranging back on him.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...07b06d0257b_story.html?utm_term=.90845df86fa9

Otto Warmbier, a 22-year-old American student, was travelling with the China-based agent Young Pioneer Tours when he was arrested at Pyongyang airport in January 2016 and sentenced to 15 years hard labour after allegedly stealing a propaganda poster from his hotel.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...g-us-citizens-north-korea-young-pioneer-tours

After Trump bragged an empty brag, after his first visit to NK.

Empty, tiny, little tRump hands, after the second visit.

Kim Jong-un is just as much of a liar, as trump is.


No, Otto Warmbier was not in safe, responsible hands, while in North Korea.



http://my.chicagotribune.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-93906337/

tRump Minions Free to Troll Democrats On Campus Without Consequences ?


(America's Monster, tRump) announced Saturday he would soon sign an executive order requiring colleges and universities to support free speech if they want federal resources.


Trump is highlighting concerns from some conservatives that their voices were being censored, whether on social media or at the nation’s universities. He did not go into more detail about what the order would say, but his comments immediately drew scrutiny from those who noted that public research universities already have a constitutional obligation to protect free speech.



https://www.boston.com/news/politic...ell-issue-order-protecting-campus-free-speech


“Somebody would have to decide which universities were not supporting free speech on campus,” said Catherine Ross, a professor in constitutional law at George Washington University. “Some group of Washington civil servants — or maybe even worse, political appointees — would be looking at charges of speech discrimination at various colleges and universities, and labeling them as either acceptable in terms of free speech or not acceptable. And that … is a government interference in speech.”

What’s more, she added, Trump’s policy could inadvertently disqualify many religious academic institutions from receiving federal research funding, to the extent that their religious beliefs prohibit certain views or speakers on campus.

Higher education groups swiftly pushed back against Trump’s proposed order.

“This is a solution in search of a problem that will create its own problems,” said Terry W. Hartle, senior vice president for the American Council on Education, which represents college and university presidents. “Free speech is a core value for research universities because it’s tied up with academic freedom. Controversies do arise, but they tend to be relatively infrequent.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...ges-funding-if-they-dont-support-free-speech/


White on White Crime: Conservative Activist Gets a Face Full of Knuckles, Called a ‘Racist’ for Holding Sign That Read ‘Hate Crime Hoaxes Hurt Real Victims’



Tanasia Kenney

February 22, 2019

https://atlantablackstar.com/2019/0...hat-read-hate-crime-hoaxes-hurt-real-victims/

bodysong said:

tRump Minions Free to Troll Democrats On Campus Without Consequences ?

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I thought that had to do with the assault and battery of a Republican activist by a deranged Democrat?

If all of what tRump's True Believers ever hear is lies from America's Monster, tRump, and they choose to believe him ? They have chosen to live in a world completely cut off from reality.

How can tRump accuse the press of keeping information from being released, when what he bases his accusations on, does not exist ?

tRump feeds his True Believers a story of Fake News conspiracy.

remember this old story ?

tRump uses Fake Information to Make A Threat

Trump admits: 'I did not make, and do not have' tapes of Comey conversations

Tweets contradict earlier suggestion that he had privately recorded talks

The announcement came after weeks of speculation in which Trump teased and tantalised the media by refusing to deny the existence of tapes, a prospect that drew inevitable comparisons with Richard Nixon and the Watergate scandal.

The possibility that Trump might have them was raised by the president himself after he unceremoniously dismissed Comey last month.

“James Comey better hope that there are no ‘tapes’ of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press,” he tweeted on 12 May, implying, but not explicitly declaring, that such recordings might exist.

“With all of the recently reported electronic surveillance, intercepts, unmasking and illegal leaking of information, I have no idea ... whether there are ‘tapes’ or recordings of my conversations with James Comey, but I did not make, and do not have, any such recordings,” the president wrote on Twitter.

(Russian bugs recorded the conversation ?)

March 2019 Sunday Treat For True Believers

Donald J. Trump
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Virtually everything failed lawyer Michael Cohen said in his sworn testimony last week is totally contradicted in his just released manuscript for a book about me. It’s a total new love letter to “Trump” and the pols must now use it rather than his lies for sentence reduction!

4:27 PM - 2 Mar 2019

March 01, 2019

President Trump is slamming Michael Cohen, two days after his former personal attorney and fixer publicly testified before the House Oversight Committee.

In a series of tweets Friday morning, Trump called Cohen’s testimony “fraudulent and dishonest” and accused him of perjuring himself. He claimed Cohen had pitched a book to publishers, the contents of which contradict the statements he made to members of Congress.

According to the Associated Press, Cohen was in talks last year with a publisher for a book that would be favorable to Trump, but the deal was never made. Cohen frequently defended the president in public before his legal troubles began.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/po...estigations/dburWMeiXyCaizsaPo1PIM/story.html

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Remember when Trump claimed that news outlets are suppressing a secret book manuscript by Michael Cohen... even though the publisher says he never turned in any manuscript at all? That was yesterday.

9:42 AM - 4 Mar 2019

(A manuscript that does not exist. The publisher, Center Street, never received a menuscript. The deal was scrapped.)



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After more than two years of Presidential Harassment, the only things that have been proven is that Democrats and other broke the law. The hostile Cohen testimony, given by a liar to reduce his prison time, proved no Collusion! His just written book manuscript showed what he.....

8:02 AM - 3 Mar 2019

Donald J. Trump
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...said was a total lie, but Fake Media won’t show it. I am an innocent man being persecuted by some very bad, conflicted & corrupt people in a Witch Hunt that is illegal & should never have been allowed to start - And only because I won the Election! Despite this, great success!

7:44 AM - 3 Mar 2019

Trump Claims Michael Cohen ‘Manuscript’ That Doesn’t Exist Was ‘Just Released’

It seems the manuscript that Trump wants politicians and pundits to believe over Cohen’s testimony may not even exist and certainly was not just released.


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Media reports quoting publishers say @MichaelCohen212 did shop a book proposal but, so far, none have confirmed any manuscript was submitted — or even completed.

https://www.mediaite.com/donald-tru...nuscript-that-doesnt-exist-was-just-released/
4:34 PM - 2 Mar 2019

bodysong said:

If all of what tRump's True Believers ever hear is lies from America's Monster, tRump, and they choose to believe him ? They have chosen to live in a world completely cut off from reality.

(a bunch of blathering nobody can read and would die of boredom if they tried)

Media reports quoting publishers say @MichaelCohen212 did shop a book proposal but, so far, none have confirmed any manuscript was submitted — or even completed.

https://www.mediaite.com/donald-tru...nuscript-that-doesnt-exist-was-just-released/
4:34 PM - 2 Mar 2019

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11 Rules of Grammar

You can reach more bravely into the scary world of sentence construction and accurate communication if you are armed with grammar guidelines. These 11 rules of grammar will help you become a champ at selecting words and punctuation.

Key Rules

1. Use Active Voice
Every human language starts an active sentence with the subject, or the "doer." In English, the verb (what's being done) follows the subject. If there is an object (the receiver of the action), it comes after the verb. The formula looks like this:

S+V+O. This rule is the foundation of the English language.

Here are some examples:

Mary walked the dog.
The dog liked Mary.
I did not like the dog.

More here: https://grammar.yourdictionary.com/grammar-rules-and-tips/11-rules-of-grammar.html

Blind hatred of your betters is no reason to abuse the English language as you do.

bodysong said:

If all of what tRump's True Believers ever hear is lies from America's Monster, tRump, and they choose to believe him ? They have chosen to live in a world completely cut off from reality.

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I don't think it's a case of believing him. From the Trumpettes who post here, I think they just share his rotten values.

George W. Bush ran a very negative campaign.
He attacked every challenger by using lies.

That was not enough to win.

He had people cheat for him.

It did not matter if he had won, in the true sense.

It was his arse that sat in the Oval office chair.

Democrats stood down, because we were asked
to think of the good of our country.

To be without a leader would leave the USA vulnerable.

It stinks.

He won because he lied.

He won because he cheated.

Yet, here we are, again.

It is so much worse.

Despite every dirty trick and advantage the Republicans had, President Obama won.


The Republican party converted itself into the party of traitors, because cheating, stealing, and lies, were not enough.

Democrats will not stand down, again.



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Guess who this U.S. Government report is about-"His primary rules were: never admit a fault or wrong, never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never accept blame; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one."

7:04 AM - 18 Feb 2019

March 15, 2018

Adolph Hitler, was the chief theorist of the Big Lie. Listen to him as he explains it;

“… in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods”…

People noticed what he was doing of course. Someone wrote this during WWII, “His primary rules were;

Never allow the public to cool off

Never admit a fault or wrong

Never concede that there may be some good in your enemy

Never leave room for alternatives

Never accept blame

Concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong

The writers concluded; people will believe a Big Lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it”.

https://medium.com/stories-ive-been-meaning-to-tell-you/the-big-lie-a490c3b441f8

4 March 2019

Donald Trump tells a fake American story. We must tell the real one

Robert Reich


Trump wants us to believe that today’s Rot at the Top are cultural elites, the media and “deep state” bureaucrats.
If Trump loses, we know what to expect: anger, fear and disruption | Robert Reich
Read more

But the real Rot at the Top consists of concentrated wealth and power to a degree this nation hasn’t witnessed since the late 19th century. Billionaires, powerful corporations, and Wall Street have gained control over much of our economy and political system, padding their nests with special tax breaks and corporate welfare while holding down the wages of average workers.

In this, the rich have been helped by Republicans in Congress and the White House whose guiding ideology seems less capitalism than cronyism, as shown time and again through legislative and regulatory gifts to big pharma, Wall Street, big oil and coal, big agriculture and giant military contractors.

America’s true story shouldn’t end with Trump’s authoritarianism and nativism. An end that’s far truer to America’s ideals is a reinvigorated democracy. This will require a benevolent community free from the crony capitalists who have corrupted America.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/04/donald-trump-american-story-robert-reich

bodysong said:

George W. Bush ran a very negative campaign.
He attacked every challenger by using lies.
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Oh, I get it.

You're just a Russian bot trying to upset things enough to get your Comrade Hillary elected.

In that context, everything you post makes perfect sense.

There have been complaints from those that associate with tRump, that once he starts telling a story (that same story that tRump has told, a million times) that he is like a wind up toy. He does not stop, until the story is unspooled.

It is a useful habit, tRump ranted for 2 hours at the 2019 CPAC gathering.

Daniel Dale keeps track of the lies (and stories) that tRump tells, in the Toronto Star newspaper.

Example of Bottomless Pinocchio tracker item, from Washington Post

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This unnamed friend returned last week, when Trump told governors that the person hired 7 or 8 ex-prisoners and said 5 were great.

8:23 PM - 4 Mar 2019

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In May, Trump told a story about a friend who hired 3 inmates and said 2 are incredible. In June, he said the friend hired 10 inmates and said 7 are incredible. On Wednesday, he said the friend hired 10 inmates but "didn't give me the exact number" of incredible ones.

9:21 AM - 21 Jul 2018

A story that features a fictional friend, that hires fictional inmates.

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In the first version of this story, the "friend" hired the "three" inmates "four, five years ago." In Wednesday's version, the friend said "its all because of the economy that he did it because he was having a hard time getting somebody."

9:22 AM - 21 Jul 2018

tRump likes to boast that our economy is so good, that there is a demand for prison inmates to fill jobs. This is justification for allowing privately owned prisons to get contracts, and fulfill the labor by forcing prisoners to work. The justification is that prisoners are getting work training. The real prison reform bills went nowhere, thanks to Mitch McConnell.

The re-awakening of tRump's old tale might be related to Van Jone's gig with tRump.


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"He gave Conservatives the whole bag at certain points," @MaythaAlhassen says in criticism of @VanJones68 CPAC comments, "completely erasing the grassroots activism happening across the country...and now Trump gets to ride in on his horse.

4:54 PM - 1 Mar 2019

The Associated Press reported last year that Trump has taken undeserved credit for the increased rates of employment among Black Americans. After the White House initially gave Trump the praise for lowering Black unemployment, they apologized for misstating former President Barack Obama’s superior numbers on Black employment while failing to make note of the fact that Obama was sworn into office when the economy had plummeted to its most serious crisis since the start of the Great Depression.

https://atlantablackstar.com/2019/0...-for-the-black-community-leaves-many-puzzled/

I thought this thread could use some news links that are actually interesting to read and editorialized in English.

Enjoy!



Too little, too late. Impeach him!

https://politics.theonion.com/trump...79.1778687290.1551826152-287512878.1551826152


WAR. What is it good for? NUTHIN!

https://politics.theonion.com/trump...43.1778687290.1551826152-287512878.1551826152


Looks like the Hill Dawg made her goal. She just backed out of the 2020 race, citing a burgeoning relationship with Huma.

https://politics.theonion.com/hilla...43.1778687290.1551826152-287512878.1551826152


Bill is feeling blue

https://politics.theonion.com/bill-...45.1778687290.1551826152-287512878.1551826152


That rascally Trump has had a hard on for Hillary FOREVER!

https://www.theonion.com/president-admits-trump-tower-meeting-was-to-get-dirt-on-1828139428


Who knew?

https://politics.theonion.com/confu...52.1778687290.1551826152-287512878.1551826152


They say drinking and politics don't mix. Truer words...

https://politics.theonion.com/muell...52.1778687290.1551826152-287512878.1551826152

If Trump loses, we know what to expect: anger, fear and disruption

Robert Reich



In years past, Americans have trusted our system of government enough that we abide by its outcomes even though we may disagree with them. Only once in our history – in 1861 – did enough of us distrust the system so much we succumbed to civil war.

Typically, when an election is over, the peaceful transition of power reminds the public that our allegiance is not toward a particular person but to our system of government.

Five weeks after the bitterly contested election of 2000, and just one day after the supreme court ruled 5-4 in favor of George W Bush, Al Gore graciously declared: “I say to president-elect Bush that what remains of partisan rancor must now be put aside, and may God bless his stewardship of this country.”

But what happens if an incumbent president claims our system is no longer trustworthy?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/03/donald-trump-2020-defeat-michael-cohen

Past behaviour predicts future behaviour ?

For Trump, losing is the deepest form of humiliation, and humiliation is intolerable.

Every time he has lost a legislative or legal battle during his presidency he has blamed the other side, and has lashed back: shuttering the government, declaring a national emergency, whipping up his followers against recalcitrant judges, Democrats, the media or whomever he holds responsible.

Imagine it’s November 2020 and Trump has lost the election. He charges voter fraud, claiming that the “deep state” organized tens of millions of illegal immigrants to vote against him, and says he has an obligation not to step down.

Only this time he’s already president, with all the powers a president commands.