From Clint - "Too much funny business" on that side of the aisle.
He's now supporting Mike Bloomberg for president.
So, are you switching too, or "do ya feel lucky punk ?"
In response to:
Clint Eastwood Ditches Donald Trump for Mike Bloomberg in 2020 Election
Jordan Moreau
Variety February 22, 2020, 4:29 PM EST
Longtime Republican Clint Eastwood is pulling support from Donald Trump in the 2020 election. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, the actor-director signaled that he thinks a different candidate would be the better choice.
“The best thing we could do is just get Mike Bloomberg in there,” he said.
After endorsing Mitt Romney and famously delivering a speech at the 2012 Republican National Convention to an empty chair that represented Barack Obama, Eastwood never officially backed Trump. In a 2016 interview, he expressed displeasure with Trump.
In other news;
" Neil Young Calls Trump 'a Disgrace,' Says Sanders Will 'Make America Great Again' "
In response to:
Neil Young blasts President Trump as a ‘disgrace to my country’ and will support Bernie Sanders’ candidacy
President Trump has been a fan of Neil Young’s music for years, although that may change after Young’s latest broadside against him
By George Varga
Feb. 19, 2020
2:30 PM
Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Neil Young hasn’t written a scathing song about President Trump yet, but that may be only a matter of time.
The Canadian-born music legend became an American citizen in late January, specifically so he could vote in the 2020 presidential election, but he isn’t wasting any time sharing his thoughts.
On Tuesday, Young posted an “open letter” to President Trump on his Neil Young Archives Times-Contrarian website. Young’s missive blasted Trump, while also announcing his strong support for Democratic party presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.
As he did in his in his 2006 song “Let’s Impeach the President” and in his classic 1970 Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young protest anthem “Ohio” — which excoriated then-President Nixon and mourned the deaths of four anti-war protesters at the hands of the National Guard — Young does not hold back.
“You are a disgrace to my country,” Young, 74, writes to Trump, 73.
Intriguingly, as far back as 2008, Trump had declared himself a big fan of Young, saying at the time: “I’ve met (Young) on occasions and he’s a terrific guy.”
As of this writing, Trump has not used his widely read Twitter page to acknowledge or respond to Young’s open letter attacking him.
“Bragging about the U.S. economy does not disguise the fact that the numbers today are what you inherited 4 years ago,” Young continues. “Your mindless destruction of our shared natural resources, our environment and our relationships with friends around the world is unforgivable. Your policies, decisions and short term thinking continue to exacerbate the Climate Crisis. Our first black president was a better man than you are.
“The United States of America, my country, is not a green on one of your branded golf courses that you can ride around on and damage so that other players cannot shoot straight.”
Young, who in 1984 voiced his support for then-President Ronald Reagan, also uses his open letter to take Trump to task for his use of Young’s 1989 song, “Rockin’ in the Free World,” at Trump’s rallies.
“Every time ‘Keep On Rockin’ in the Free World’ or one of my songs is played at your rallies, I hope you hear my voice. Remember it is the voice of a tax-paying U.S. citizen who does not support you. Me.”
Young concludes by letting Trump know exactly which candidate Young is supporting. “One of your opponents has the answers I like,” Young writes. “He is aiming at preserving our children’s future directly. He is not pandering to the industries accelerating Earth’s Climate Disaster, the end of the world as we know it.
If you want praise - die.
If you want blame - marry.
Only place in America have high murder is city run by Democrats.
Today in The New Yorker;
By Robin Wright
In response to:
As the world’s seven largest economic powers met in glamorous Biarritz, the lungs of the planet, in the Amazon rain forest, were ablaze. “I’m an environmentalist,” President Trump insisted, at a press conference on Monday, claiming that he knows more about the subject than most people. Yet hours earlier he had skipped the session on climate change, biodiversity, and oceans; the white high-backed chair reserved for him had been conspicuously empty. The White House insisted that he had “scheduled meetings” with the leaders of Germany and India, even though both were plainly in view at the climate session. (Never mind, as well, that the Trump Administration has rolled back at least eighty-three environmental regulations in less than three years.)
Trump also claimed that China had called his top trade negotiators “numerous” times during the two-day summit to signal China’s interest in getting “back to the table” to work on a deal to end the escalating trade war. On Friday, Beijing had announced retaliatory tariffs on seventy-five billion dollars of American imports—leading Trump to label China the “enemy” and the Dow to tumble more than six hundred points. On Monday, the President announced a surprise breakthrough. “You can say we’re having very meaningful talks, much more meaningful than I would say at any time, frankly,” he bragged. The Dow shot up almost three hundred points. Then, somewhat baffled, China’s Foreign Ministry denied any such recent calls—or any such progress.
Few expected the G-7 summit—which was founded in 1975, to foster collaboration on global issues—to produce much this year. Trump has proved irascibly intransigent on the world stage, even (or especially) with allies. The French hosts abandoned the usual formal communique signed by the seven leaders—from Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the United States—pledging future courses of action. But, at a time of wide-ranging and often existential challenges for the world, the G-7 this year was arguably the least productive summit since the group was founded. It ended with Trump pontificating on his version of events—for more than an hour—spouting views that were often unworldly, occasionally unwise, and sometimes just plain wacky. It was a sorry ending.
At the final press conference, Trump called for Russia’s re-ëntry into the group of the world’s most advanced economies. (The G-7 expanded into the G-8, in 1997, to include Russia after the Cold War ended. But it expelled Russia in 2014, after President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion and annexation of Crimea, then deployed men and matériel to aid separatists in eastern Ukraine.) Trump, who is due to host the rotating summit next year, said he would “certainly” like to invite Putin to attend. “I really think it’s good for the security of the world,” he said. Moscow’s intervention in Ukraine, a former Soviet republic, has only increased since 2014. Russia is still a pariah state globally. Last year, Washington sanctioned Moscow and expelled dozens of Russian diplomats because of Russia’s use of military-grade chemical weapons against dissidents living in Britain. And then there’s that pesky, largely unaddressed issue of Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election.
The wackiest comment was Trump’s claim that the First Family has cultivated “excellent” relations with the North Korean dictator since diplomacy began—in three meetings—more than fourteen months ago. “The First Lady has gotten to know Kim Jong Un, and I think she’d agree with me—he is a man with a country that has tremendous potential,” Trump told reporters. But Melania Trump has never met Kim.
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Earlier this week, the Conservative Borg mothership came in orbit around Earth. It was just a few days before Robert Mueller was to appear before the Special Counsel. As predicted, millions of sleeper cell started lighting up to submit blogs and make comments to existing blogs.
Talk about overloaded bandwidth... they had Mueller's testimony already summed up before the cameras started rolling.
Good work guys!!
The rumor mill was in full swing... Kellyann Conway dressed as the town crier was chasing reporters shouting "He's feeble minded"
Conservative (news) radio was saying it's a waste of time and taxpayer's money to listen to fake news.
At this point, your minds are already made up and I doubt that anything that Mueller said or did would would change your opinion.
NASA reported the mothership has left orbit and all systems are returning to normal.
So now they want you to let them DOUBLE DOWN on them. After all, why bother trying to come up with better ideas to earn votes when you can simply buy them with other peoples’ money?
That’s what the Democrat Party’s leading candidates for the 2020 presidential election have discovered.
“Medicare for all” at a cost of $85 TRILLION dollars?
That’s child’s play! That’s just for starters!
Forget about free “STUFF,” now they one upped their game into free “MONEY.”
Andrew Yang promises to give every American adult a “freedom dividend” of $1,000 a month… for doing NOTHING.
Corey Booker (a.k.a. Spartacus) promises to give a bank account with $1,000 in it to every child and put $2,000 more in it every year until they turn 18.
Not to be outdone, spooky moon child Marianne Williamson promises to give out $500 billion in reparations to black people.
The Democrat platform is a virtual FREE-FOR-ALL of who can promise to raise your taxes the most and give more of your money away to someone else.
But the most pathetic part of all is what led to this desperate strategy.
After five decades of pumping taxpayer money into poor minority communities, to the tune of more than $22 TRILLION DOLLARS, and trillions more into the college system which did nothing but raise tuitions, the Democrats have chosen a strategy that clearly admits that their socialist welfare state policies have been a catastrophic FAILURE. It has failed so badly, that here today, 50 years and $22 trillion later they are STILL saying that we need to pump even more money down the same rat-hole with no evidence of results.
After the biggest, longest redistribution of wealth in the history of mankind, they admit that the problems are WORSE THAN EVER.
The Democrat 2020 campaign is a clown car. But the funny is on us. They want to take YOUR money and shove it down the same hole all over again with nothing to show for it. Are you really stupid enough to buy this?
This morning in The Huffington Post;
In response to:
Anthony Scaramucci, who infamously lasted 10 days in the administration of President Donald Trump, on Sunday compared his old boss to the most notorious nuclear disaster in history and said the president’s ongoing meltdown could lead to him getting replaced on the top of the Republican ticket for the 2020 election.
“We are now in the early episodes of ‘Chernobyl’ on HBO, where the reactor is melting down and the apparatchiks are trying to figure out whether to cover it up or start the clean-up process,” Scaramucci told Axios, comparing Trump’s presidency to the TV drama about the 1986 nuclear disaster in Ukraine, which was then part of the Soviet Union.
“A couple more weeks like this and ‘country over party’ is going to require the Republicans to replace the top of the ticket in 2020,” he said.
The former White House communications director has turned into a sharp critic of his ex-boss.
He said last month that Trump’s attacks on four women of color in Congress were “racist and unacceptable.” Last week, he called Trump’s visit to El Paso, Texas, to see survivors and first responders of the mass shooting there a “catastrophe” and “a bad reflection on the country.”
And on Saturday, he warned that Trump will eventually turn on the entire country.
In his latest critique of the president, Scaramucci said that unless Trump changes his tune soon, Republicans will start to look for a “replacement” to run in 2020.
“Right now, it’s an unspeakable thing,” he said. “But if he keeps it up, it will no longer be unspeakable.”
He also Tweeted;
“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless.
Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”
~ Dietrich Boenhoffer
I would suggest to Scaramucci, that Trump already turned against the USA, each time he continually lies to the American public, when he chose Russian help prior to the election, and when he sided with Putin over US intelligence, and when he obstructed justice many times.
I however agree, that not speaking out against evil, is itself evil.
I will continue to speak out against the evils of Trump, officially the WORST president in US history, until he is removed from office.
A federal judge in frank terms Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit by the Democratic National Committee (DNC) against key members of the Trump campaign and WikiLeaks over hacked DNC documents, saying they "did not participate in any wrongdoing in obtaining the materials in the first place" and therefore bore no legal liability for disseminating the information.
The ruling came as Democrats increasingly have sought to tie the Trump team to illegal activity in Russia, in spite of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's findings that the campaign in fact refused multiple offers by Russians to involve them in hacking and disinformation efforts.
President Trump, in a tweet late Tuesday, noted that the judge in the case, John Koeltl, was appointed by Bill Clinton. The president called Koeltl's decision "really big 'stuff'" and "yet another total & complete vindication and exoneration."
The DNC had asserted in court filings that the Trump team's meetings "with persons connected to the Russian government during the time that the Russian GRU agents were stealing the DNC's information" were "circumstantial evidence" that they were conspiring with the Russians to "steal and disseminate the DNC's materials."
The suit did not allege that the stolen materials were false or defamatory but rather sought to hold the Trump team and other defendants liable for the theft of the DNC's information under various Virginia and federal statutes, including the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, Wiretap Act, Stored Communications Act, Digital Millenium Copyright Act, and laws protecting trade secrets.
However, Judge Koeltl, sitting in the Southern District of New York, wrote in his 81-page opinion Tuesday that the DNC's argument was "entirely divorced" from the factual record in the case.
The DNC first filed its suit in April 2018, and the defendants responded that the First Amendment legally protected the dissemination of stolen materials.
"In short, the DNC raises a number of connections and communications between the defendants and with people loosely connected to the Russian Federation, but at no point does the DNC allege any facts ... to show that any of the defendants -- other than the Russian Federation -- participated in the theft of the DNC's information," Koeltl said.
"Nor does the DNC allege that the defendants ever agreed to help the Russian Federation steal the DNC's documents," he added.
The DNC claimed the defendants illegally compromised their trade secrets contained in some of the stolen documents -- including donor lists and strategies. But, the judge said, any such claim to trade secrecy was lost when the documents became public in the first place, and in any event, the newsworthiness of the matter trumped the trade secrecy issue.
"If Wikileaks could be held liable for publishing documents concerning the DNC's political financial and voter-engagement strategies simply because the DNC labels them 'secret' and trade secrets, then so could any newspaper or other media outlet," the judge wrote. That, he said, would elevate a privacy interest impermissibly over the First Amendment rights of people and media outlets to disseminate matters of "the highest public concern."
Koeltl went on to describe multiple hacking efforts directed by Russians at the DNC, in which Russians "hacked into the DNC's computers, penetrated its phone systems, and stole tens of thousands of documents."
But, even if the Russians had provided the hacked documents to the Trump team directly, the judge wrote, it would not be criminal for the campaign to then publish those documents, as long as they did not contribute to the hacking itself. Similarly, the judge said, it is not criminal to merely solicit or "welcome" stolen documents.
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