The 187th Week of The Voyage Of The Truptanic!

[JackLuis]

The 187th Week of The Voyage Of The Trumptanic!

After last week's disaster for Trump you would think he'd shift his course, but Nooooo, he's taking on water, listing even more to starboard, and driving full speed ahead!

Not content to lie about Mail-in voting, he's sabotaging the Postal Service to slow mail deliveries and create more confusion!


‘Friday Night Massacre’ at US Postal Service as Postmaster General—a major Trump donor—ousts top officials

Government watchdogs, Democratic lawmakers, and pro-democracy advocates declared it a “Friday Night Massacre” for the U.S. Postal Service after news broke in a classic end-of-the-week dump that Louis DeJoy—a major GOP donor to President Donald Trump and the recently appointed Postmaster General—had issued a sweeping overhaul of the agency, including the ouster of top executives from key posts and the reshuffling of more than two dozen other officials and operational managers.

The shake-up came as congressional Democrats called for an investigation of DeJoy and the cost-cutting measures that have slowed mail delivery and ensnared ballots in recent primary elections.

Twenty-three postal executives were reassigned or displaced, the new organizational chart shows. Analysts say the structure centralizes power around DeJoy, a former logistics executive and major ally of President Trump, and de-emphasizes decades of institutional postal knowledge. All told, 33 staffers included in the old postal hierarchy either kept their jobs or were reassigned in the restructuring, with five more staffers joining the leadership from other roles.

Already under fire for recent policy changes at the USPS that mail carriers from within and outside critics have denounced as a sabotage effort to undermine the Postal Service broadly as well as disrupt efforts to carry out mail-in voting for November’s election amid the Covid-19 pandemic, the moves unveiled late Friday were viewed as an overt assault on democracy and a calculated opportunity to boost Republican’s long-held dream of undercutting or privatizing the government-run mail service while also boosting their election prospects in the process.

“Another Friday night massacre by this administration—and this time dealing another devastating blow to our postal service,” said Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon (D-Pa.) “The American people deserve answers and we’re going to keep fighting for them.”

Why, you ask? In another article on the same subject it was explained that DeJoy has significant holdings of stock in competitors of the USPS. Grifters gotta grift!

Also:
Leading demand for IG probe, Elizabeth Warren accuses Trump and new Postmaster General of ‘sabotaging’ postal service

 

[JackLuis]

187th Week Humor!


Here are fourteen things people think may be more popular than Donald Trump

President Donald Trump had a difficult Friday while on vacation at Trump National Golf Club Bedminster in New Jersey.

White House chief of staff Mark Meadows was unable to reach a deal on the stimulus package.

So Trump lied on Twitter about the position of Democrats. But that did nothing to change the dynamics of the negotiations.

Trump then announced he would hold a Friday evening press conference at his private golf club, but that backfired so spectacularly that the president was accused of self-sabotage.

And then his day got even worse, with the hashtag for “Things More Popular Than Trump” trended nationwide on the president’s favorite social networking site.

Scan the tweets, hilarious!

 

[JackLuis]

GOP officials panicked after ‘contentious’ Trump phone call with one of the Republican Party’s top donors: report

According to a report from Politico, Donald Trump may have alienated one of the Republican Party’s top donors last week after complaining to Las Vegas businessman Sheldon Adelson that he didn’t think that billionaire was doing enough to bolster his faltering re-election campaign.

That phone call — described as “contentious” — has Republican Party officials panicked that Adelson may hold back million-dollar contributions to the party in an election year where GOP candidates are already struggling to hang onto their seats.

According to the report, Trump “connected by phone last week with Republican mega-donor Sheldon Adelson — perhaps the only person in the party who can cut a nine-figure check to aid his reelection — the phone call unexpectedly turned contentious.”

Politico goes on to note that Adelson wanted to talk about the latest round of coronavirus aid being negotiated in Congress, but the president turned the conversation to his re-election prospects and the need for more support.(ie Money)

“The president needs the money. With less than three months until the election, he is overwhelmed by a flood of liberal super PAC spending that his party has failed to match. Since this spring, outside groups supporting Joe Biden have outspent their pro-Trump counterparts nearly 3-to-1, an influx that’s helped to erase the president’s longstanding financial advantage,” the report notes. “Now, Republican leaders are pleading to billionaires for help. Trump advisers are pining for new outside groups to form, and the White House is growing anxious to see what Adelson, who has pumped hundreds of millions of dollars into Republican super PACs over the past decade, will do.”

Trump can't even beg effectively!

 

[JackLuis]

Along with everything else, Donald Trump’s a total pig

Can we put aside for the moment Trump’s corruption, ignorance, incompetence, arrogance, racism, stupidity, criminality, greed and buffoonery, and just deal with the fact that he’s a pig? You know what I’m talking about. Look at one of the photographs of Trump and his wife Melania alongside their good friends Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, and you’ve got the whole thing in a proverbial nutshell. I mean, do you have any photographs of yourself with a convicted sex offender and someone accused of procurement in a child sex ring?

There are reports that Trump’s name shows up on the flight manifests of Epstein’s private jet (along with Bill Clinton and various other prominent men). Trump himself told New York Magazine in 2002, “I’ve known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy. He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.” That means Trump’s relationship with Epstein dated back at least until 1987. And 36 years later, in the middle of a campaign for re-election that by all accounts he is currently losing, Trump is still talking nice about Epstein’s pimp? He knew. He knew all along.

And Donald Trump? He’s going to turn into an impeached pig who brags about grabbing women “by the pussy,” who pays hush money during his first campaign for president to at least two women to cover up affairs he was having outside his marriage, who is accused by more than two dozen women of various kinds of sexual harassment and abuse over a period of decades, who becomes known for his antipathy for strong women in politics because he simply cannot stomach women who stand up to him and refuse to take his misogyny and racism.

If all Trump ever did in his life was to be friends with the likes of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, that would be reason enough to consign him to the sixth ring of some kind of hell we haven’t even imagined yet. At the very least, he knew who they were and he knew the disgusting, illegal stuff they were doing with little girls. And you know what kind of man that is?

A pig like Donald Trump.

 

[JackLuis]

Top US counter intelligence official formally announces Russia working to attack Biden, helping Trump win re-election

The top counterintelligence official in the United States government has just released an official statement saying the Intelligence Community is actively working to help President Donald Trump get re-elected.

“We assess that Russia is using a range of measures to primarily denigrate former Vice President Biden and what it sees as an anti-Russia ‘establishment.’ This is consistent with Moscow’s public criticism of him when he was Vice President for his role in the Obama Administration’s policies on Ukraine and its support for the anti-Putin opposition inside Russia,” states National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) Director William Evanina.

How will Trumpski spin this?

 

[JackLuis]

Nobel economist says he’s done the math — and the risk Trump and McConnell pose to the economy is ‘terrifying’

Very much a student of New Deal economics, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman has often stressed that helping the unemployed during an economic downturn not only helps those who are out of work — it also benefits the economy on the whole. Krugman made that point many times during the Great Recession, and in a column published this week, the liberal economist warns that the “coronavirus recession of 2020” will become even worse if unemployed Americans don’t receive the help that they need.

“I’m not sure how many people realize just how much deeper the coronavirus recession of 2020 could have been,” Krugman explains. “Obviously it was terrible: employment plunged, and real GDP fell by around 10%. Almost all of that, however, reflected the direct effects of the pandemic, which forced much of the economy into lockdown. What didn’t happen was a major second round of job losses driven by plunging consumer demand. Millions of workers lost their regular incomes; without federal aid, they would have been forced to slash spending, causing millions more to lose their jobs.”

However Mitch did shovel Trillions to his donors, so all's well, right?

 

[JackLuis]

Trump is sucking wind on this first day of his sure to be horrible 187th week. Trump Monkeys will try to hold him irresponsible, but the majority of people will reject this horrid half-human in November.

All Joe has to do is ride the Blue Wave and not get in his own way!

But what has Donnie Dipshit done to the prestige of the Presidency? After Trump will the People not hold the new President to a higher standard? Can Joe reestablish the American leadership of the "Free World?" or has America lost and might never regain the trust of rational nations?

Will the press not seriously question every decision Joe tries to make, can Joe pull this off and reestablish the "Golden Glow of Greatness" that the Presidency had been given previously?

More importantly can a new Congress hope to raise their approval rating above the 20% that they have had for years?

Republicans have sunk their own party with Mitch and Trumpisim. Can Nancy and Chuck lead the Democrats to counteract the sabotage of the last half decade?

 

[KeithD]

If Trump is decisively rejected and we go back to a traditional presidential style, I think his "lay waste to everything grim reaper" sojourn will just be written off as a lesson always to be aware of.

 

[JackLuis]

If Trump is decisively rejected and we go back to a traditional presidential style, I think his "lay waste to everything grim reaper" sojourn will just be written off as a lesson always to be aware of.

Yes the Establishment will rest on their laurels and let the Trump sabotage ride, after all it is only "the little people" who were crushed by the chaos of Trumpisim. The donor class which the Establishment serves had sufficient reserves to ride out the storm.

 

[KeithD]

Yes the Establishment will rest on their laurels and let the Trump sabotage ride,

Bullshit. You are such a hurt BernieBro. When/if Biden and staff get it, clean up on aisle eight is going to be a Herculean task just to get back to where we were before Trump. But they'll do it.

You're being such a sad sack over Bernie.

 

[JackLuis]

Bullshit. You are such a hurt BernieBro. When/if Biden and staff get it, clean up on aisle eight is going to be a Herculean task just to get back to where we were before Trump. But they'll do it.

You're being such a sad sack over Bernie.

And you are just an apoligist for the establishment My love for Bernie stems from his wanting to actually do something different than blow smoke and continue the status quo. Nancy does not want to change the way the deck is stacked.

Hell I'd back Liz or anyone who will take a stand for the people and not the establishment.

Tell me how much the nation revers Nancy's leaadership when Congressional approval is in the sub-basement!

 

[KeithD]

And you are just an apoligist for the establishment My love for Bernie stems from his wanting to actually do something different than blow smoke and continue the status quo. Nancy does not want to change the way the deck is stacked.

Hell I'd back Liz or anyone who will take a stand for the people and not the establishment.

Tell me how much the nation revers Nancy's leaadership when Congressional approval is in the sub-basement!

If Bernie wanted to actually do something, he'd have actually done something. He'd learn to network, do more than talk pie in the sky, and compromise into getting something done incrementally from all the years he's been on the national scene. He hasn't and neither have you. You produce a big zero other than empty bellyaching.

You seem to have missed that I've backed Liz Warren for pretty much of everything. But then you're only interested in just pretending.

You're just a useless broken record. All you're good for is ruining actual possibilities to get out of this situation.

 

[KeithD]

Jack, you represent the Tea Party and Trumper of the left rolled into one, intent on doggedly pursuing a naive, pie-in-the-sky spoiler role that will put us right back where it did the last time you did this.

 

[JackLuis]

Jack, you represent the Tea Party and Trumper of the left rolled into one, intent on doggedly pursuing a naive, pie-in-the-sky spoiler role that will put us right back where it did the last time you did this.

The last time I did what?
I have only asked that the Dem's actually pass an FDR level program instead of whining that the evil Rethuglicunts don't play fair! Put on your big girl panties Nancy and FIGHT the fuckers!

Nancy has the power of the purse but refuses to use it to hammer the nations greatest evils.She could prevent the Pentagon budget from taAKING SO MUCHof the welth of the nation she could pose a new phase of social spending to ease the paain of the lower classs, but no she folds up like a cheap card table to insure the continued support of the donor class which has not aa fuck to give for the lower 60% who toil endlessly in fear of loosing one paycheck and starving.

 

[phrodeau]

The last time I did what?
I have only asked that the Dem's actually pass an FDR level program instead of whining that the evil Rethuglicunts don't play fair! Put on your big girl panties Nancy and FIGHT the fuckers!

Nancy has the power of the purse but refuses to use it to hammer the nations greatest evils.She could prevent the Pentagon budget from taAKING SO MUCHof the welth of the nation she could pose a new phase of social spending to ease the paain of the lower classs, but no she folds up like a cheap card table to insure the continued support of the donor class which has not aa fuck to give for the lower 60% who toil endlessly in fear of loosing one paycheck and starving.

Do you realize that nearly 400 bills have passed the House and stalled in the Senate?

 

[JackLuis]

Do you realize that nearly 400 bills have passed the House and stalled in the Senate?

Yes and the House should be in the press shouting about Rethuglicunt malfeseance every day. The DNC should have a web page that tracks every bill stalled in the Senate showing how long they have laid on Mitches desk and why they should be advanced.

All I want is for the Dems to play hardball every day, all day which is why we pay the fuckers $175,000 a year plus golden benifits and a full pension for just two years 'service'. CAN YOU NAME ANYOTHER job that compensates so well and demands so little?

 

[JackLuis]

Nancy plays hardball and hits a Double!

I would be intellectually dishonest if I didn't point out Nancy's calling out Chris Wallace.

Nancy Pelosi owns Chris Wallace: ‘Clearly you don’t have an understanding of what is happening here’

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) faced off against Fox News host Chris Wallace on Sunday over the failure to negotiate a COVID-19 financial relief bill.

In an interview on Fox News Sunday, Wallace suggested that there is an upside to executive actions taken by President Donald Trump in lieu of a financial relief bill because some people will get protections from evictions “rather than getting nothing at all.”

For her part, Pelosi quoted a Republican senator who said that the president’s executive action is “constitutional slop.”

“While he says he’s going to have a moratorium on evictions, he’s going to ask the folks in charge to study if that’s feasible,” Pelosi explained before noting that the president’s payroll tax holiday serves to “undermine Social Security and Medicare.”

Nancy did call out that Trump's Executive Action is a weak step in helping the victims of Trump's mishandling of the Pandemic and she did point out that even at least one Repub said it was weak slop.

However she could have also pointed out that Mitch's refusal to even discuss the 400 stalled bills on his desk is obstruction of Congress and that Mitch is the one who refuses to compromise and is responsible for the pain that the nation will feel as people will be evicted and become destitute due to the Senate Majority Leader's obstinacy.

She could have pointed out that Chris was putting lipstick on the pig in his unjustified defence of Republican irresponsibility.

So good job Nancy. You're beginning to learn how to fight.

 

[JackLuis]

Trump admitted on live TV he will ‘terminate’ Social Security and Medicare payroll tax funding if reelected in November

President Donald Trump on Saturday afternoon openly vowed to permanently “terminate” the funding mechanism for both Social Security and Medicare if reelected in November—an admission that was seized upon by defenders of the popular safety net programs who have been warning for months that the administration’s threat to suspend the payroll tax in the name of economic relief during the Covid-19 pandemic was really a backdoor sabotage effort.

Here is another bat to hammer Trump with. Come on Chuck, hit the Trump Fucker Hard with his own words!

 

[JackLuis]

Trump aides admit his COVID-19 executive orders will do little to help the economy: report

According to a report at the New York Times, aides to Donald Trump are privately conceding that the executive orders he signed with great fanfare at his Bedminster country club will have little impact on the economy even if they are enacted which seems tenuous at best.

Writing, “The executive actions President Trump took on Saturday were pitched as a unilateral jolt for an ailing economy. But there is only one group of workers that seems guaranteed to benefit from them, at least right away: lawyers,” the Times’ Jim Tankersley said the proposals to boost unemployment payments, halt evictions, give renters a break and ease up on payments for some student loan borrowers will enough money into the economy to have much of an effect.

Trumpski brags, but his action will have little real effect, and mostly it will be detrimental.

 

[JackLuis]

Trumpublicunts in disarray!


White House turmoil as Trump aides Mnuchin and Navarro get in ‘knockdown, drag-out’ yelling match: report


‘Babbling and incoherent’: Internet stunned by Kudlow’s trainwreck appearance on CNN


‘We need a reality check here’: CNN’s Bash cuts off Kudlow’s rambling spin on Trump’s unemployment plans



Trump adviser Navarro hammered on NBC for president fleeing to his country club as COVID relief talks stalled


Lincoln Project only needed 19 words to show 4 fatal flaws with Trump’s payroll tax holiday



White House ‘concocted a positive feedback loop’ to mislead Trump into thinking he’s doing an excellent job on coronavirus: report

 

[JackLuis]

After a horrendous weekend of failure Trump's Monday was also bad. Now on this Tuesday Trumpski's minions are scurrying around trying to patch over his weekend gaffs!


Trump aides quickly backpedal to reverse his huge Social Security blunder

President Donald Trump vowed that workers would not have to pay back payroll taxes if he is re-elected, prompting advisers to downplay his comments amid concerns that such a move could defund Social Security and Medicare.

Trump signed multiple executive orders over the weekend in an attempt to bypass stalled congressional negotiations over the next round of coronavirus relief, though the orders fall well short of the proposed legislation. Their legality have also been called into question.

Maybe someone should mention to Donnie that people with no jobs don't pay payroll taxes?


Payroll tax cuts are the ‘hydroxychloroquine of economic policy’: Nobel economist

 

[JackLuis]

Trump thinks his re-election problem is that voters aren’t seeing enough of him: White House reporter

President Donald Trump is gambling that voters want to see even more of him on television, as his re-election chances dim.

As the campaign enters its final months, the president has wanted to claim the spotlight for himself by reviving his coronavirus briefings, inserting himself into pandemic relief negotiations and accepting the GOP nomination from a dramatic — but ethically problematic — location such as the White House or Gettysburg battlefield.

Yes Trump needs to expose his brilliant plans to the people even more!!! Get out there Donnie and spread the joy.

You dumb fuck!

 

[JackLuis]

‘Wake up and read some history’: Joe Scarborough blasts ‘stupid’ Trump in epic rant



Trump has never even read a ‘children’s book’ about Abraham Lincoln: presidential historian
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Experts: Trump’s denial of trusting Putin more than US intelligence ‘sure sounds more like a confirmation’

Lincoln Project hammers Trump for looming eviction crisis: ‘He doesn’t give a damn if you lose your house’


‘Loser’: A leading psychiatrist takes a detailed look into Trump’s narcissistic pathologies

Trump's terrible Tuesday Continues!!!

 

[phrodeau]

Bullshit. You are such a hurt BernieBro. When/if Biden and staff get it, clean up on aisle eight is going to be a Herculean task just to get back to where we were before Trump. But they'll do it.

You're being such a sad sack over Bernie.

I wonder if four years will do. We’ll probably need Biden for eight.

 

[KeithD]

I wonder if four years will do. We’ll probably need Biden for eight.

I don't have delusions of eight years for him. I see him as a transition to something more progressive, which, right at this time, is exactly what I think the country needs--a period of calm and recovery.