Trump / Musk (other than DOGE) Omnibus Thread

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He clearly just doesn’t get it. Aside from lies about abortion, he doesn’t understand that when he claims to be for exceptions for the mother’s “life” it is not enough, it needs to be for her health and that’s about the only time late term abortions happen. When doctors claim they have to wait until the priest is called of last rights before providing life-saving healthcare, it is often too late to prevent life-altering health issue or even death of the mother.

But setting all that aside, because he clearly only “understands” abortion as a “women’s issue” in his way for the power and status he craves, at its foundation, he clearly doesn’t get most women. His rant is offering a paternalistic “daddy will take care of you” vibe that is appealing to his Mar-a-Lago emotional support cougars and a minority of young women who want a sheltered life were a husband makes all the decisions and does all the providing and they focus inward on hearth and home (or on their appearance and being an influencer or becoming a real housewife of Duluth or whatever).

But his paternalism is exactly the problem for a majority of women who don’t want men making decisions for their healthcare or their lives and don’t want to be dependent on men or “protected” from the outside world. And in Bro Culture not wanting men to protect you or control you makes you a target of their vitriol and in too many cases harassment and violence. That’s the end result of patriarchal thinking Trump embraces.
 
aGDevil2k said:
Again the projection....

HE is the national nightmare. People are bored with him. He was new and fresh to people 8 years ago. Now he's a bumbling old man with no new ideas and a brain that's disintegrating. He's harder to listen to than RFK
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But there are still millions who think he’s the second coming.
 


“…
In an Oval Office meeting, Mr. Trump told startled aides that if Attorney General Jeff Sessions would not order the department to go after Hillary Clinton and James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, Mr. Trump would prosecute them himself.

Recognizing the extraordinary dangers of a president seeking not just to weaponize the criminal justice system for political ends but trying as well to assume personal control over who should be investigated and charged, the White House counsel, Donald F. McGahn II, sought to stall.

“How about I do this?” Mr. McGahn told Mr. Trump, according to an account verified by witnesses. “I’m going to write you a memo explaining to you what the law is and how it works, and I’ll give that memo to you and you can decide what you want to do.”

… The memo that Mr. McGahn’s lawyers in the White House Counsel’s Office produced following Mr. Trump’s April 2018 tirade about prosecuting Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Comey amounted to a primer on presidential power — and the limits on it — when it comes to the justice system, according to draft copies of it.

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The main message to Mr. Trump in the memos was that presidential meddling in a prosecution — flouting a norm that had become deeply embedded in American politics and government in the wake of Watergate — could have profoundly negative consequences for Mr. Trump, including the potential for impeachment and electoral defeat.

Even as they made that argument, the lawyers remained so concerned about being ignored by Mr. Trump that they smuggled drafts of the memo out of the White House complex so they would have a record of their efforts to restrain him if his demands for retribution got him, and them, in political and legal trouble.

They were right to be worried. …”
 
SnoopRob said:
Because credit cards are essentially a non-collateralized loan.

If you cap interest at 10%, a whole lot of folks will either no longer “qualify” for credit cards or will be given tiny card limits due to fear of lack of repayment. (Or the cc companies will simply create 15 new “fees” to make up for the lost interest.)
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It also seems like a lot of governmental intervention.
 
nycfan said:
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Taylor Swift is a pretty good “hater” barometer.

People that hate Taylor Swift (not just her music) are generally haters as she’s pretty inoffensive.

Of course MAGAs hate her because she spoke out against their god king.

Gen Z males are squarely in their Hater Era. Many will grow out of it many more never will.
 
Fact: Because I am a man, I can sympathize with women's issues, but I will never have to sort of visceral understanding of those issues that women have.

Notwithstanding the forgoing, I just can't understand how St. Donald of Mar-a-Lago can claim that only he has the requisite empathy, knowledge of the issues and knowledge of the system to (a) deal with issues important to women and (b) more importantly, know when women don't understand their own problems and need him to lead them to the "correct" resolution of these problems.
 
JCTarheel82 said:
No doubt but the majority of women see right through his bullshit. That tweet will go over like a fart in church.
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First time I heard the expression "like a fart in church," was when I was about six and my grandfather said it about something. I asked what that meant. He explained, "It's something everyone hears or sees, but pretend they don't." For the next couple years after that, I may have overused that expression, a tad, and may have, on occasion, used in in situations were it really wasn't appropriate. All of which is to say, be careful about using that expression around young boys, unless you are their grandfather. If you are their grandfather, then go for it, but don't expect any "Thank yous" from your daughters-in-law.
 
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Fact check: Trump falsely claims, again, that Oprah had him on the final week of her show​

By Daniel Dale
Updated 2:51 PM EDT, Fri October 23, 2020

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Fact check: Trump falsely claims, again, that Oprah had him on the final week of her show

President Donald Trump makes a lot of false claims on issues that are crucial to Americans' lives: the coronavirus pandemic, the election, health care, the economy.
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“… For at least seven years [as of 2020], Trump has been claiming that he was so important to Oprah that she had him on her popular daytime talk show in its final week.

… This is false. Trump did not appear on the final week of "The Oprah Winfrey Show," which ended on May 25, 2011. He was a guest on the February 7, 2011 show, three-and-a-half months before the final episode.

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Trump has been making the claim since at least 2013. "Final week of @Oprah's show- @Oprah is terrific," he wrote in his 2013 Instagram caption of a photo that, as entertainment publication Variety noted in 2018, actually showed his family posing with Winfrey for the episode three-and-a-half months before the show ended.

The actual last week of the show featured a star-studded arena tribute to Oprah -- which includedMichael Jordan, Will Smith, Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks, Beyoncé, Jerry Seinfeld and other A-listers, but not Trump -- and appearances by memorable non-entertainer guests from past episodes, like Clemantine Wamariya, a survivor of the genocide in Rwanda, and Jacqui Saburido, an activist against drunk driving. The final episode starred Winfrey alone. …”
 
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