Highly Political Holidays!

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Christmas card illustration-

Presiderp's New Red Suit and the Golden Star, Golden hair to match

Some (most) of the Trump Christmas tree branches have been redacted
More black bars covering branches, than decorated branches.

Trump family Christmas update letter

Tara Jacoby
Alexandra Petri

December 6, 2019

Dear Friends Acquaintances and Soon-to-Be-Forgotten Business Associates,

Best regards of the season from our family to yours!
What a year it has been!
2019 saw a lot of changes around here.

The kids have had a big year!

This has been a very big year for Donald Jr., who published his first book,
“Triggered: How the Left Thrives on Hate and Wants to Silence Us.”


Tiffany!

Melania has been exploring her creative side, and this year’s White House
decorations are her most exciting yet.

We did not get a dog this year, although we briefly brought one to the White
House to thank it for its service. Its name is Conan, and it is a hero. Donald
insists on referring to it as “it,” so that’s how we’re doing it in this card!

Donald’s year has been a little ruff, as Conan would say.
(This is not true; Conan is trained not to speak unless commanded.)
He is still being hunted by witches, in spite of his best efforts.

They have wanted to impeach him ever since he was elected, on the grounds
that he ran on a platform that he would do creepy, autocratic things, and they
were worried that he would do them despite congressional Republicans’ best
efforts to hold him accountable. But they were wrong. He is doing them, and
congressional Republicans have actually been very encouraging.
He hopes that the impeachment will be over soon so that things can
get back to normal, and he is looking forward to campaigning next year
against one of a series of people he has given personalized nicknames.

He also wants to say thank you for all the lovely gifts, to those who succeeded
in giving him his favorite present, election interference, as well as to those
who only tried. It’s the thought that counts! And there’s always next year.
He hopes everyone’s new judges arrived okay — he worked hard to get
those out in time this year. Enjoy at your leisure. They’ll last a lifetime!

We hope that you enjoy a new year filled with perfect calls and emoluments!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/12/06/trump-family-christmas-update-letter/

 

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"...they hardly relish the prospect of working straight through to an
expected impeachment vote in the days before Christmas."

https://www.bostonglobe.com/nation/politics/?p1=BGHeader_MainNav

 

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White Supremacists insist on their "right to free speech" in public.

The true face of that "freedom of speech" is when police stood by
their police cars and watched as 400 men with tiki torches marched
past a chapel full of frightened people, and toward a tiny university
campus.

They beat and injured young students and the professors (30 people)
that surrounded the shrouded monument of a Confederate officer.
What followed is the murder of a young woman, serious injuries
of protesters, and the cowardly attack on protestrs in NYC.

This later meant that cities and towns would ruin their budgets
because the White Supremacists from outside of the community
arrived to troll minorities and non- Christians. The racists needed
babysitters and a playground, and that meant police protection,
and coordinating counter-protesters. White Supremacists moved
on, to draining the budgets of universities and beating students.
The cowards were sexist, and were sadistic toward women in
particular.

Their guns, their Confederate flag, their Confederate army uniforms,
their hatred, their cruelty, and their religion-

White Supremacy is Wrecking Christmas

The Sons and Daughters of the Confederacy marched for decades
without a peep from public officials. Just asking about that was
enough for two towns to cancel Christmas parades.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-th...side-agitators

Wake Forest Police Chief Jeff Leonard talked about lawless
“outside agitators” and a town nearly deluged by
“professional protesters" who have no regard for
the safety and well-being of others.

Is the Town of Garner trying to send the message that
racism is welcome in the community?

Is this Raleigh, North Carolina suburb going to allow Confederates
in this year's Christmas parade??

— Move Silent Sam (@Move_Silent_Sam) November 25, 2019

Fears of clashes over Confederate groups cancel NC parades

December 05, 2019

Santa Claus was planning to come to town on Dec. 14, but Wake Forest
officials canceled the parade for what is though to be the first time since
it started more than 71 years ago.

In the past, Crabtree said, members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans
(SCV) and of the United Daughters of the Confederacy have participated
in the Wake Forest Christmas Parade, without incident. Usually, he said,
as many as eight men and women dressed in Civil War-era costumes that
accompany a float, carrying a banner with the emblem of the SCV, which
includes an image of the Confederate flag.

Because the town is a sponsor of the Christmas parade, Crabtree said,
it can’t shut out a particular group from participating. In the future,
he said, turning over the parade entirely to a private organization
or a nonprofit community group would allow for closer scrutiny
of who is allowed to join the parade.

Clashes and protests over Confederate monuments and symbols
are nothing new in North Carolina.

Last month, crews hauled away a Confederate statue that had
stood outside the Chatham County courthouse for 112 years.

Meanwhile, some students and faculty members at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are upset
at the school’s decision to pay $2.5 million to the
Sons of Confederate Veterans to move and preserve
the Silent Sam Confederate statue.

In North Carolina, supporters of Confederate monuments have
said they preserve Civil War history. Those who want them
removed contend they represent white supremacy and racism.

Though some Confederate monuments have come down
in recent years, North Carolina has the third-most of any
state.

https://www.newsobserver.com/news/st...238067469.html

https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/...stmas-parades/

 

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End of the year cover-ups and lies

Nearly a third of the days he’s been president, Trump has visited
a Trump-branded property

December 30, 2019

Over the course of his presidency, Trump has visited a Trump-owned
or branded property on three out of every 10 days.

Of the 1,075 days on which he has been president, he has visited
Mar-a-Lago or a Trump Something-or-other on 331 of them,
31 percent of the time.

He will have visited a Trump property on 117 days in 2019,
the same number as in 2017.

Because the White House rarely acknowledges when Trump
is playing, (golf- or who is on the course with him.) we can
only estimate (based on social media posts, news reports and
the weather) when he has played.

(Hiding the amount of time he spends cheating at golf,
gives him implausible deniability- another opportunity to lie.)

Our estimate has him at just over 200 rounds, with another 40-plus
visits to golf clubs where he didn’t play. That’s well over twice
what Obama had played by the same point in his presidency.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...sident-trumps-visited-trump-branded-property/

Obama golf count:
306 rounds of it while he was in office.
38 rounds per year.

Pentagon budget official Elaine McCusker warned the administration
that at least $61 million of the aid had to be released by August 12 —
or it would be lost. Trump spent the weekend before the Pentagon
deadline at his New Jersey golf course. Mulvaney reportedly tried
to use the weekend to schedule a conference call with Trump,
Vought, Bolton and White House counsel Pat Cipollone to
discuss the aid as McCusker pushed for a decision.

The call never happened, because Trump was set to hit the golf course
with Daly, according to The Times. Trump eventually spoke to
Mulvaney while at Bedminster, reiterating his desire to keep the
freeze in place. The whistleblower filed the complaint which
ultimately led to Trump’s impeachment that same day.

https://www.salon.com/2019/12/30/tr...day-whistleblower-complaint-was-filed-report/

 

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12 days of Christmas, 12 Days of Golf

252 days at a Trump golf course and 333 days at a Presiderp
private property

Well before he finishes out year four, Presiderp will have
taken a full year of vacation.

January 2, 2020 10:05 AM

Mar-a- Lago

It was up for sale for $20 in 1981.

$250,000 a year membership

Members can slide Trump policy proposals on a cocktail napkin
and end up secretly running the Veterans Administration or on
the line for billions extorted from the Middle East.

Wednesday, Presiderp was angry, angry at the “lamestream Media”
for reporting that he played golf during the siege of the American
embassy in Iraq. Trump repeatedly huffed that he did not play golf
on Wednesday. Which would be easier to believe, had he not been
pictured in golf clothes, riding in a golf cart, with his golf clubs.

But certainly Trump isn’t letting anything less than a full brink-
of-war event interfere with his critical schedule of sending the
Secret Service scurrying for balls in the rough. CNN is just one
of several sources that tallied up Trump’s time on the course
at the end of 2019 and found that he spent a good 20% of his
time directly out there riding around in carts.

- Mark Sumner

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...bout-America-and-laugh-with-the-ultra-wealthy