Trump supporters and conspiracy theory - Part 2

[Rick Plant]

President Biden is doing an amazing job.

The unemployment rate is now down to 4.8%. That's in just eight months time. No other President on record has achieved that feat. 
 
President Biden has created 2 times more jobs in just his first nine months than any other administration in history. That is a record achievement and what you call success! The media isn't reporting it because they would rather focus on nonsense that drives up their ratings instead.

What a turnaround from the Trump disaster we had to suffer through for 4 years with high unemployment, record job loss, a devastating recession, and the 2019 manufacturing recession caused by failed Trump policies. Those days are gone. President Biden is creating jobs, more people are employed, and manufacturing is making a big comeback thanks to President Biden.       

[Rick Plant]

Yes, Criminal Donald is going to prison.

Biden White House shoots down Trump's last-ditch attempt to prevent Capitol riot committee from getting documents



The Biden White House on Friday formally shot down former President Donald Trump's request to block the House select committee investigating the Capitol riots from obtaining key documents.

In a letter obtained by NBC News, White House Counsel Dana Remus argued that there is no justification for withholding the documents, despite Trump attorneys' claims that handing them over would harm the interests of the executive branch.

"President Biden has determined that an assertion of executive privilege is not in the best interests of the United States, and therefore is not justified as to any of the documents," Remus argued. "Congress is examining an assault on our Constitution and democratic institutions provoked and fanned by those sworn to protect them, and the conduct under investigation extends far beyond typical deliberations concerning the proper discharge of the President's constitutional responsibilities."

Remus continued by saying that "the constitutional protections of executive privilege should not be used to shield, from Congress or the public, information that reflects a clear and apparent effort to subvert the Constitution itself."

The White House has been telegraphing for weeks that it will not adhere to Trump's request to withhold the documents, but Friday was the first time that the administration made a formal move.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-capitol-riot-commitee-2655256964/


'Trump is in profound legal trouble -- don't kid yourself': DC insider

Democratic strategist James Carville said Donald Trump's legal troubles would help boost Democrats to a midterm election win.

The twice-impeached one-term president is facing numerous lawsuits and criminal investigations, and the Senate Judiciary Committee revealed new evidence of wrongdoing in its investigation of his efforts to overturn his election loss, and Carville told MSNBC's "11th Hour" that things were looking good for Democrats.

"We are ready to have an explosive economic recovery here," Carville said. "The COVID numbers are starting to look pretty good. And if the Democrats -- and Trump's in legal trouble. Don't kid yourself, he is in profound legal trouble. If the Democrats show some motion and momentum here they're not doomed to have a bad 2022, but they got to get in with what could be a very positive turn here in the United States. Very possible, not saying it will happen, but none of these things are far-fetched at all."

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-legal-trouble-2655254181/

[Richard Smith]

A teleprompter clown sitting at a little kids desk   

LOL.  Trump is in the REAL White House and not Old Joe's doll house replica.  Old Shuffling Joe can't even read off the teleprompter anymore.  They had to build a fake White House set to provide him with a device that he can see.  Complete with fake windows with a fake view of the White House grounds.  It is unreal.  Like something from a comedy movie.  Weekend at Bernie's meets Idiocracy.

[Rick Plant]

Trump has become 'irrelevant' as his Twitter ban takes its toll: report




According to a report from the Guardian's David Smith, experts claim that Donald Trump's ban from Twitter -- a social media platform ideally suited to his attention-grabbing outbursts -- is turning him into yesterday's news as the public moves on without almost hourly reminders of is existence.

The former president -- who had 8 million Twitter followers before he was banned immediately after the Jan 6th Capitol riot -- has had to resort to longer statements posted by his spokesperson on her Twitter account that has little social media reach and often pass without anyone noticing.

"Cast into the social media wilderness, the former US president releases statements by email these days, clogging the inboxes of reporters whose attention has turned elsewhere. The era when a single tweet from Trump could electrify cable news, rattle financial markets and unnerve foreign capitals is long gone," Smith wrote. "His post-presidential online engagement is in freefall, the Axios website reported this week, citing data from SocialFlow, an optimization platform that measures clicks from posts referred from its network of publishers."

According to one political scientist, the loss of Trump's presidential bully pulpit, combined with the social media ban, is rapidly diminishing his influence at a time when he needs the attention to raise cash for both his personal use and to possibly make another presidential run.

As Monika McDermott of Fordham University told Smith, "His [Trump's] online presence has definitely declined due to a variety of factors. First of all, he was better on Twitter because he was punchy. He was of the moment: people followed him and got constant updates. Any other platform is very difficult for him to navigate with his style and personality."

"In addition to that, he's lost his position as president of the United States, and he doesn't have a concrete election yet that he's actually running for. The attention has been siphoned away by the current administration and what's going on in the country and the Delta variant and all kinds of other things," she added. "He's become to some extent irrelevant to the general populace, even though he's still very relevant to his still very loyal followers."

As Smith notes, when Trump's name does manage to break into the headlines it is often reports about either his legal problems or revelations coming from the flood of books about his one-term presidency.

"Trump, ensconced at his estates in Florida or New Jersey, has been largely irrelevant to substantive policy debates about the Afghanistan withdrawal and Biden's infrastructure bill and social spending plans. Mitch McConnell, the Republican minority leader in the Senate, appears to be paying him little heed," Smith wrote before adding, "In addition, the former president struggles to break through and make news, and when he does it is usually because of a damaging revelation from a book or official investigation about his attempt to overturn the 2020 election. Axios cited data from NewsWhip showing there were 26% fewer stories about him during August and September than in March and April. And the stories were averaging 28% less engagement on social media."

According to GOP strategist and anti-Trump Lincoln Project member Tara Setmayer, life has become better without the former president clogging up social media platforms.

"We're no longer married to our Twitter feeds and cellphones and we can actually enjoy Sunday brunch now because Donald Trump isn't tweeting something insane. However, the undercurrent of his presence is still a threat to our politics," she told the Guardian.

You can read more here:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/oct/09/the-silence-of-donald-trump-how-twitters-ban-is-cramping-his-style

[Richard Smith]

Trump has become 'irrelevant' as his Twitter ban takes its toll: report




According to a report from the Guardian's David Smith, experts claim that Donald Trump's ban from Twitter -- a social media platform ideally suited to his attention-grabbing outbursts -- is turning him into yesterday's news as the public moves on without almost hourly reminders of is existence.

The former president -- who had 8 million Twitter followers before he was banned immediately after the Jan 6th Capitol riot -- has had to resort to longer statements posted by his spokesperson on her Twitter account that has little social media reach and often pass without anyone noticing.

"Cast into the social media wilderness, the former US president releases statements by email these days, clogging the inboxes of reporters whose attention has turned elsewhere. The era when a single tweet from Trump could electrify cable news, rattle financial markets and unnerve foreign capitals is long gone," Smith wrote. "His post-presidential online engagement is in freefall, the Axios website reported this week, citing data from SocialFlow, an optimization platform that measures clicks from posts referred from its network of publishers."

According to one political scientist, the loss of Trump's presidential bully pulpit, combined with the social media ban, is rapidly diminishing his influence at a time when he needs the attention to raise cash for both his personal use and to possibly make another presidential run.

As Monika McDermott of Fordham University told Smith, "His [Trump's] online presence has definitely declined due to a variety of factors. First of all, he was better on Twitter because he was punchy. He was of the moment: people followed him and got constant updates. Any other platform is very difficult for him to navigate with his style and personality."

"In addition to that, he's lost his position as president of the United States, and he doesn't have a concrete election yet that he's actually running for. The attention has been siphoned away by the current administration and what's going on in the country and the Delta variant and all kinds of other things," she added. "He's become to some extent irrelevant to the general populace, even though he's still very relevant to his still very loyal followers."

As Smith notes, when Trump's name does manage to break into the headlines it is often reports about either his legal problems or revelations coming from the flood of books about his one-term presidency.

"Trump, ensconced at his estates in Florida or New Jersey, has been largely irrelevant to substantive policy debates about the Afghanistan withdrawal and Biden's infrastructure bill and social spending plans. Mitch McConnell, the Republican minority leader in the Senate, appears to be paying him little heed," Smith wrote before adding, "In addition, the former president struggles to break through and make news, and when he does it is usually because of a damaging revelation from a book or official investigation about his attempt to overturn the 2020 election. Axios cited data from NewsWhip showing there were 26% fewer stories about him during August and September than in March and April. And the stories were averaging 28% less engagement on social media."

According to GOP strategist and anti-Trump Lincoln Project member Tara Setmayer, life has become better without the former president clogging up social media platforms.

"We're no longer married to our Twitter feeds and cellphones and we can actually enjoy Sunday brunch now because Donald Trump isn't tweeting something insane. However, the undercurrent of his presence is still a threat to our politics," she told the Guardian.

You can read more here:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/oct/09/the-silence-of-donald-trump-how-twitters-ban-is-cramping-his-style

Applaud political censorship.  Advocate arrest of political opponents (and even murder of unarmed women).  Mock people who get sick from the Biden pandemic.  Censorship, arrest, and investigation are the new direction of the Democrats who were once advocates for free speech.  I wonder why?     The red wave is coming in 2022. 2024 is fast approaching.  Biden's poll numbers are cratering under his endless disasters.   Their only hope is stage an insurrection to undermine democracy.

[Rick Plant]

Only MAGA morons believe the  this pathological spouts off. That's why he loves the poorly educated. 


Trump just 'gave away the big lie' proving it wasn't real and all about his 'ego juice': CNN's Jim Acosta

During President Donald Trump's Iowa rally on Saturday, he made it clear that one of the reasons he keeps repeating "the big lie" is that it gets great applause lines.

Talking about the speech, CNN's Jim Acosta showed the video saying that it was Trump's admission.

"It's the single biggest issue, the issue that gets the most pull, the most respect. The biggest cheers is (sic) talking about the election fraud of the 2020 presidential election. Nobody's ever seen anything like it."

"Did you catch that?" Acosta asked. "So he just gave away the big lie. He is admitting that his election lies are ego juice, just there to pump up the crowd, the very stuff that fueled the insurrection. And by now, we know he'll take those crocodile tears. The big lie is the big cry, of course, as we said before, all the way to the bank and perhaps to the 2024 election."

He was then joined by John Avlon and PBS's Margaret Hoover, who both agreed. Hoover claimed Trump is absolutely in it.

"Well, as we know, he'll plan that he won it even if he didn't," Avlon said. "But I think this is a really serious point because there are a lot of Republicans who still look me in the eye, serious Republicans who were officeholders who say he's not going to run, and they have some kind of justification. But if you look at every single thing he says and every single thing he's doing, which includes putting the team back together and having his PAC going and basically saying everything he can legally without triggering a campaign violation, he has said that he's running. So, you got to take him for his word. This man is running and he still runs the Republican Party. Republicans need to get their head out of the sand and start dealing with it."

See the video below:

[Rick Plant]

Watergate prosecutor explains why Trump has no hope of claiming executive privilege

Former Watergate prosecutor Nick Ackerman spoke to CNN's Jim Acosta on Sunday to explain why former President Donald Trump doesn't have any hope of claiming executive privilege for information about the Jan. 6 attack.

Ackerman did acknowledge, however, that because Trump has all of the legal options available to him, he'll likely gum up the Jan. 6 committee in Congress.

"The problem is that both of those issues are big losers for him," Ackerman explained why he doesn't think it'll be successful. "One is the fact that of course, the committee has the right to get those records. The interest of the committee in terms of getting to the bottom of the insurrection on Jan. 6th is absolutely paramount. And you couldn't come up with a better rationale. And the idea that executive privilege applies is nonsense. You cannot exert executive privilege to hide and cover up your involvement in an effort to overthrow the government and basically try and undermine a key element of our Constitution that allows for the counting of the electoral college votes."

Ackerman would know, it was the Nixon v. Administrator of General Services ruling where the Supreme Court said that any criminal cases can't be stopped by declaring executive privilege.

"Now, the problem with all that is it's got to be decided by a district court judge," said Ackerman. "It'll be decided against Donald Trump. He'll then appeal it to the D.C. Appeals Court, which should pretty quickly, you know, basically uphold the District Court. And then it'll go to the Supreme Court, which is, I think, very unlikely that they will ever look at this. But, again, it will take some time. This is not going to happen in a matter of days. And maybe not in a matter of weeks."

Watch the discussion below:

[Rick Plant]

20 state AGs file suit over Dejoy plan to sabotage USPS

Twenty state Attorneys General on Friday filed a joint complaint in an effort to block changes to the U.S. Postal Service enacted last week by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy and which critics warn are an overt effort to cripple the mail service from within by slowing delivery times while also increasing the cost to consumers.

The official complaint filed by the 20 AGs is directed at the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC), which is charged with providing independent oversight of the USPS, but which the suit alleges betrayed its mandate by allowing the controversial plan put forth by DeJoy to move into implementation on October 1 without proper review.

According to a statement from the office of Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson:

The complaint details DeJoy's failure to follow federal law in making harmful Postal Service changes. Ferguson asserts these major Postal Service changes, which range from eliminating working hours, slowing delivery of first-class mail and removing equipment, threaten the timely delivery of mail to millions of Americans who rely on the Postal Service for delivery of everything from medical prescriptions to ballots.

"Millions of Americans depend on the mail every day to receive their prescriptions, pay bills, receive Social Security checks, send rent payments and more," Ferguson said in the statement. "One political appointee does not get to decide the fate of the Postal Service. There is a process that demands accountability from the American public for a reason—and I will fight to ensure the public gets a say."

In addition to Washington, the complaint was backed by the Attorneys General of Pennsylvania, North Carolina, New York, California, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Virginia, and Rhode Island.

The AG's suit comes amid a relentless barage of criticism aimed at DeJoy and demands for his ouster, as well ire aimed at the Postal Service Board of Governors, for putting forth a plan that experts on the USPS say is paving the pathway for the beloved agency's demise.

As Christoper S. Shaw, author of the the book First Class: The U.S. Postal Service, Democracy, and the Corporate Threat, wrote in an op-ed for Common Dreams last week, "While previous postmasters generals sought faster mail delivery, DeJoy stands out for his wish to make it slower."

As Shaw's piece notes:

DeJoy claims that lowering service standards offers an outstanding opportunity to cut costs because hauling mail overland on trucks will prove cheaper than using air transportation. Lost in this short-term calculus is the cost to American citizens and to the health of the Postal Service in the long run. Degrading standards of service and discarding competitive advantages is not a formula for long-term relevance.

In response to the complaint, the USPS claimed the filing "has no legal or factual merit" and said "the Postal Service intends to move to dismiss it pursuant to the rules" of the PRC process.

North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein, however, said in a statement that the changes made by DeJoy "destroy the timely mail service that people depend on for medications, bill payments, and business operations in rural parts" of his state. According to Stein's office:

The 10-year plan would undermine the Postal Service, including changes that would enact slower service standards for first-class mail and other packages, change the location of post offices, and adjust rates. The plan would slow down USPS standard delivery for 30 percent of mail from three days to five days, increase the price of each piece of mail by six to nine percent, and put these changes in place without doing anything to effectively address the larger Postal Service budget deficit.

The Postal Regulatory Commission is an independent federal agency that has oversight over the Postal Service's operations. Federal law requires the Postal Service to go to the Commission whenever it makes a change to postal services that will affect the entire country. The attorneys general contend that DeJoy failed to do so, and without the proper review, DeJoy's plan could lead to future problems with mail delivery. The attorneys general are requesting that the Commission order the Postal Service to request a review of the full extent of the ten-year plan, affording the States and the public an opportunity to provide comment.

"The Postal Service," said Stein, "is an essential government service, and it cannot restructure without considering how those changes will affect millions of Americans."

https://www.rawstory.com/louis-dejoy-2655265355/