Zitat von Hans Bergman im Beitrag #6899

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Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #6896

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...Und nun wieder die Verteidigung von destruktiven Aktionen des "moechtegern Hitler" Luegenbarons von Trumpfhausen, dem Ruinierer der USA, wenn nicht der Welt, auch genannt "trumski" (wegen seiner Putin sycophancy) durch ablenkende Relativierung. Seine Anhaengerschaft steht eben "In Teue fest".
("I could shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue and not lose one voter." original sound trumski)

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Ich denke, dieser pathologischen Raserei kann man ohne fundierte medizinische Kenntnisse nicht beikommen.

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Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #6901

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Zitat von Hans Bergman im Beitrag #6899

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Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #6896

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...Und nun wieder die Verteidigung von destruktiven Aktionen des "moechtegern Hitler" Luegenbarons von Trumpfhausen, dem Ruinierer der USA, wenn nicht der Welt, auch genannt "trumski" (wegen seiner Putin sycophancy) durch ablenkende Relativierung. Seine Anhaengerschaft steht eben "In Teue fest".
("I could shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue and not lose one voter." original sound trumski)

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Ich denke, dieser pathologischen Raserei kann man ohne fundierte medizinische Kenntnisse nicht beikommen.

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Kultismus kann man medizinisch ueberhaupt nicht beikommen. Fuer die meisten Nazis in Deutschland musste erst der 8. Mai 1945 kommen. Aber selbst das reichte noch nicht fuer alle.
Und die Bekloppten wachsen ja auch immer wieder nach.

Der trumpismus wird also schon noch ein Weile anhalten. Wie der Populismis in Europa ja auch. Erst muessen wohl noch schlimme Dinge passieren -und selbst dann...

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Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #6896

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auch genannt "trumski" (wegen seiner Putin sycophancy) durch ablenkende Relativierung.[/blau]

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'Whitey' Bulger prison letters: Love for Trump, disdain for Mueller
The Boston gangster raved about the president, and railed against ex-special counsel Robert Mueller, in a series of letters to an unlikely pen pal.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/whi...ueller-n1014761

Detroit Pride parade interrupted by neo-Nazi group: report
The Detroit Pride parade Saturday was reportedly interrupted by a group of white nationalists carrying weapons and performing Nazi salutes.

Fox News reported the arrival of members from the National Socialist Movement (NSM) sparked outrage at the annual march.
Images circulating on social media appeared to show a white nationalist ripping apart a rainbow flag and another urinating on an Israeli flag, according to Fox News.
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch...zi-group-report


Trump admin tells U.S. embassies they can't fly pride flag on flagpoles
The administration is rejecting requests from U.S. embassies to fly the rainbow flag on flagpoles during June, LGBTQ Pride Month, say 3 U.S. diplomats.

The Trump administration is rejecting requests from U.S. embassies to fly the rainbow pride flag on embassy flagpoles during June, LGBTQ Pride Month, three American diplomats told NBC News.

The U.S. embassies in Israel, Germany, Brazil and Latvia are among those that have requested permission from Trump's State Department to fly the pride flag on their flagpoles and have been denied, diplomats said.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/nationa...-t-fly-n1015236

More cruelty and mistreatment against immigrants. Officials have begun confiscating life-saving medications at the border, according to volunteer doctors. The medications seized include treatments for chronic conditions like diabetes, asthma, high blood pressure, and seizures. Even children have reportedly had their medications taken away by border patrol agents.

Trump and his enablers are subjecting immigrants to horrific, sometimes life-threatening, conditions and practices. Their sheer cruelty is hard to fathom, but we must not become inured to the treatment of these families. We must demand that they are treated with rights, dignity and respect.

Border Patrol is confiscating migrant kids' medicine, U.S. doctors say
https://news.yahoo.com/border-patrol-is-...-225354608.html

Da kommen die trumpisten bestimmt in Orgasmuslevel Naehe wenn sie sowas lesen.

George Conway knocks Trump: 'You would have been fired from any other job by now'
Conway, the husband of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, is a frequent critic of the president on Twitter. His recent outrage was in response to Trump's tweet recognizing it is "not at all 'Presidential'" to attack the media.

Conway responded that Trump is "not 'presidential' at all, period."
"You're mentally unwell. You engage in bizarre, irrational, self-defeating behavior, which prompts criticism of you, which triggers more bizarre, irrational, self-defeating behavior. You would have been fired from any other job by now," Conway said.

Conway asked Trump to "resign and seek the psychological treatment you so obviously need," going so far as to recommend a couple of books he thinks the president may find useful.
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/44764...ther-job-by-now

Company part-owned by Jared Kushner got $90m from unknown offshore investors since 2017
Overseas investment flowed to Cadre while Trump’s son-in-law works as US envoy, raising conflict of interest questions
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019...e-goldman-sachs

Trump Can’t Make Senate Republicans Do Anything
But he still can stall them when he wants to.

At the same time that Republican senators are sticking with Donald Trump over his scandals, they’re showing less and less loyalty to him in other ways. In the last few weeks:

Senate opposition has sunk the Federal Reserve Board nominations of Herman Cain and Stephen Moore;

It appears that Trump’s choice for a key immigration job, Ken Cuccinelli, is similarly doomed;

Some Republicans have joined with Democrats to fight against Trump’s arms sale to Saudi Arabia, potentially forcing 22 separate measures that Trump would have to veto;

Republicans went into open revolt against Trump’s new suggested tariffs on goods made in Mexico;

Senate Republicans eventually ignored Trump’s priorities on the disaster relief bill and passed it with aid to Puerto Rico (which the president opposed) and without border money (which he asked for).

That comes after enough Senate Republicans joined with Democrats to pass measures (but not to override vetoes) against Trump’s declaration of emergency over the border wall and attempting to stop U.S. involvement in the war in Yemen.

That’s a lot of items in a fairly short period of time. And it’s hardly comprehensive. Senate Republicans routinely ignore suggested legislation from the president. When Trump moved toward a deal with House Democrats over infrastructure in late April, Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans didn’t even pretend to take it seriously. The same thing happened when he decided that Republicans were going to return to health care reform. He isn’t getting his space force.

While Senate Republicans did stick with Trump for a while during the government shutdown earlier this year, they eventually abandoned him, forcing him to fold. And they have pretty much joined House Democrats in treating his budget proposal for the next fiscal year as dead on arrival.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articl...nything-anymore

Symbolic Friendship Tree Planted by Trump and Macron Has Died, Reports Say
In what may be the greatest act of political satire ever performed by a plant, the symbolic “friendship tree” planted last year by Donald Trump and Emmanuel Macron has died, according to reports in France. The French president gifted the young oak tree to Trump during a state visit to Washington in 2018. Photographs of the two planting the tree at the White House while their wives, Melania and Brigette, watched on were widely ridiculed on social media. But, as the two presidents’ budding bromance withered and died, so too did the tree. It was reportedly taken into quarantine after its planting with the intention of it being replanted, but it never was. In a tweet at the time, Macron said: “This oak tree (my gift to @realDonaldTrump]) will be a reminder at the White House of these ties that bind us.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-and-...ied-reports-say

As the saying goes: "Anything Trump touches, dies."

The Finance 202: How Trump's Mexico showdown undermines his standing in other trade talks
Leaders in foreign capitals are likely updating their trade war strategies after watching how President Trump handled his confrontation with Mexico.

...And Trump further undermined his leverage in future talks by accepting a quarter-loaf deal and celebrating it as a total vindication in the face of building domestic pushback from congressional Republicans, business leaders and some in his own administration.

It will surely be harder for him to earn true concessions if foreign counterparts believe that maximalist demands from Trump today could dissolve in the face of a wobble in U.S. economic performance, or if the stock market stumbles, or if pressures from Congressional investigations or the 2020 race increase pressure to secure a big win.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powe...m=.db67be16d784

Donald Trump’s Failures Make Him Even More Dangerous
If countries keep calling the president’s bluff, as Mexico has done, there’s a good chance he may start burning things down just to prove a point.

Any remaining thoughts that President Donald Trump has been playing three-dimensional chess while everyone else around him is engaged in less sophisticated pursuits should perish with his sudden abandonment of tariff threats against Mexico.

The only thing Trump got from this stunt was yet another round of abundant attention as everyone tried to decipher the riddle of “what-is-this-unusual-and-loopy-man-up to-this-time-because-he’s-breaking-the-norms-of-generally-accepted-presidential-behavior?” For Trump personally, the opportunity to generate and then bask in that kind of media buzz is, of course, far from nothing. Self-aggrandizement and self-preservation have motivated almost all of his thinking for decades; first as an unknown outer-borough tyro, then as a closely-watched developer and carnival barker, finally during his years as TV celebrity and now president. ...

Trying to govern by threat and blunt force isn’t really governing at all, and if enough bluffs get called, the players on the other side of the table tend to stiffen their spines. That’s not a good scenario for anyone involved, because a predictably unpredictable person lacking self-confidence, restraint and principled, courageous advisers may eventually try burning things down just to prove his point.

The president of the United States isn’t playing chess. But, like a kid with matches, he’s only too happy to play with fire.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articl...-more-dangerous

Only the Best Deals: How Trump Got Pantsed By Mexico
The idea that Donald Trump successfully used the threat of tariffs to force Mexico to agree to an immigration deal is yet another fiction cooked up by the Trump propaganda machine.

The truth is this: Trump squandered any negotiating leverage he may have had by making an idle threat that everybody knew he couldn’t possibly follow through on.

The threat of imposing an immediate 5 percent tariff on Mexican goods, and then gradually ratcheting up the rate to 25 percent, was never real. The stock market hated it. The Chamber of Commerce and other U.S. business groups hated it. American consumers hated it. American manufacturers and farmers hated it. Even Mitch McConnell and Ted Cruz hated it.
The prospect of Trump dropping that stink bomb into the U.S. economy in the run-up to a presidential election year was always a non-starter. Not even Trump is that stupid.

And the Mexican government isn’t stupid, either. They fully understood that Trump’s only way out of the box he had put himself in was to find a way, any way, to withdraw his tariff threat by claiming that it had successfully forced Mexico to negotiate an immigration deal favorable to the United States.
But far from creating negotiating leverage, Trump’s threat did the opposite: It immediately handed all of the leverage to Mexico.

While Trump might have created some leverage with his tariff threat had anyone believed he would follow through on it, everyone—including the Mexican government—knew he couldn’t. They knew that Trump had to find a way to declare victory to give himself political cover for when he inevitably withdrew the threat.
Which meant that Mexico had Trump over a barrel. Trump’s had two choices: to agree to whatever cosmetic arrangement Mexico was willing to offer; or to follow through on a threat that would be tantamount to political suicide. For Trump, that was no choice at all.

In other words, Trump had backed himself, not Mexico, into a corner.
They had him. He had to cave.
And cave he did.
He got nothing. ....

... U.S. negotiators failed to get the one concession they really wanted: a “safe third country” treaty that would have given the U.S. the legal ability to reject asylum seekers if they had not sought refuge in Mexico first.
In other words, the U.S. obtained virtually nothing in this deal except a political fig leaf to cover Trump’s withdrawal of a threat he should never have made in the first place.
“The Mexicans played Donald Trump,” Jorge Castaneda, Mexico’s former Foreign Minister, told Fareed Zakaria on Sunday. “Basically, they promised to do what they had already promised to do, and probably won’t do it.”
https://thebulwark.com/only-the-best-dea...tsed-by-mexico/

President Trump to CNBC: China is going to make a deal because ‘they’re going to have to’

“The China deal is going to work out. You know why? Because of tariffs,” Trump told co-host Joe Kernen. “Right now, China is getting absolutely decimated by companies that are leaving China, going to other countries, including our own, because they don’t want to pay the tariffs.”

It’s unclear to what extent China is being hurt by U.S. tariffs. Data released by Chinese President Xi Jinping’s government Monday morning show a widening Chinese surplus on U.S. in May.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/10/trump-to...to-have-to.html

‘Tariffs are a beautiful thing’ — Trump doubles down on trade war strategy with China after Mexico deal

“People haven’t used tariffs, but tariffs are a beautiful thing when you are the piggy bank, when you have all the money. Everyone is trying to get our money,” Trump said during a telephone interview with CNBC’s “Squawk Box. ”

“The China deal is going to work out. You know why? Because of tariffs. Because right now China is getting absolutely decimated by countries that are leaving China, going to other countries, including our own,” Trump told CNBC’s Joe Kernen. He contended that companies would “move out” of China or Mexico and relocate to the U.S. due to tariffs.

Trump on Monday also took swipes at business groups, particularly the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, that have criticized tariffs.
The Chamber of Commerce, Trump said, “is probably more for the companies and the people that are members than they are for our country.”

Trump’s phone call appeared to be a response to an interview on CNBC earlier in the day with Myron Brilliant, head of international affairs at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Brilliant critiqued what he called the “weaponization of tariffs, ” which he said “is going to hurt our country.”

Foreign policy experts have also raised concerns that Trump might end up relying on tariffs too much, potentially risking America’s economic power.
“It remains to be seen — in Mexico, China and beyond — how much Trump will gain through his unique willingness to use economic weapons,” Atlantic Council CEO Fred Kempe wrote in a CNBC column. “What’s clear already is that friends and rivals are more interested than ever before in exploring alternatives to the U.S.-dominated system.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/10/trump-do...exico-deal.html

Trump: If President Xi does not attend G-20, more China tariffs will go into effect immediately
President Donald Trump confirmed on Monday that additional tariffs on Chinese goods will be levied if Chinese President Xi Jinping does not attend this month’s G-20 meeting.

When asked during a telephone interview if that means the new tariffs would go into effect immediately, Trump told CNBC’s Becky Quick, “Yes, it would.”

The president previously threatened to put levies on another $300 billion in Chinese goods if a trade agreement is not reached soon. The Trump administration increased tariffs last month on $200 billion worth of goods the U.S. imports from China.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/10/trump-if...mmediately.html

Aus meiner Kenntnis chinesischer Gesichtswahrer ist es nun dadurch betraechtlich schwieriger fuer Xi geworden, am G-20 teilzunehmen. Geschweige denn kurzfristig ein Handelsabkommen abzuschliessen.

Gewinnt Trump die nächste Wahl?

Former U.S. Attorney Tells Congress Trump Committed ‘Multiple Crimes’
‘If anyone other than a sitting president had committed this conduct, I am confident that he would be charged with crimes.’

First, the conduct described in the report constitutes multiple crimes of obstruction of justice, supported by evidence of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
If anyone other than a sitting president had committed this conduct, I am confident that he would be charged with crimes.

One thousand former federal prosecutors signed a letter agreeing that the president committed crimes.

Second, why it matters.
The obstruction described in the report created a risk to our national security because it was designed to prevent investigators from learning all of the facts about an attack on our country by a hostile foreign adversary. ...
https://www.thedailybeast.com/former-us-...multiple-crimes

Trump on impeachment and Nixon: ‘He left. I don’t leave.’
President Donald Trump, whose actions during the Russia investigation have prompted comparisons to the Watergate scandal, drew a distinction between himself and President Richard Nixon on Monday: “He left. I don’t leave. A big difference.”

He made the comment on the same day that John Dean, the former Nixon White House counsel, appeared before the House Judiciary Committee for a hearing on special counsel Robert Mueller’s report, which outlined possible obstruction of justice by Trump. Dean testified that he saw “remarkable parallels” between Nixon’s actions and Trump’s.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/1...t-nixon-1359209



Ricky Davila@TheRickyDavila
Predator trump on what makes him and Nixon different: “He left. I don’t leave. A big difference”
Take notice that he never mentioned innocence as the distinction. Tells you everything.
7:46 PM - 10 Jun 2019


Sam the Banana Republic Collie@SamtheBorderCo1
Nixon: Criminal, but, not a traitor, actually accomplished some good things, opened up dialog with China.
Trump: Criminal, traitor, accomplished nothing, cannot be believed on anything.
7:55 PM - 10 Jun 2019

Fox News Stars Begin Pushing Rumors About Joe Biden’s Health
Baseless claims about Biden’s medical fitness have quietly taken hold on Fox. At a time when TV news stars make similar claims about Trump and Clinton, this may be the new normal.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-s...e-bidens-health

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The Cult of Trump
Cult leaders arise from decayed communities and societies in which people have been shorn of political, social and economic power. The disempowered, infantilized by a world they cannot control, gravitate to cult leaders who appear omnipotent and promise a return to a mythical golden age. The cult leaders vow to crush the forces, embodied in demonized groups and individuals, that are blamed for their misery. The more outrageous the cult leaders become, the more they flout law and social conventions, the more they gain in popularity. Cult leaders are immune to the norms of established society. This is their appeal. Cult leaders demand a God-like power. Those who follow them grant them this power in the hope that the cult leaders will save them.

Donald Trump has transformed the decayed carcass of the Republican Party into a cult. All cults are personality cults. They are extensions of the cult leaders. The cult reflects the leader’s prejudices, worldview, personal style and ideas. Trump did not create the yearning for a cult leader. Huge segments of the population, betrayed by the established elites, were conditioned for a cult leader. They were desperately looking for someone to rescue them and solve their problems. They found their cult leader in the New York real estate developer and reality television show star. Only when we recognize Trump as a cult leader, and many of those who support him as cult followers, will we understand where we are headed and how we must resist. ...
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-cult-of-trump-3/

Es lohnt sich den Artikel in Gaenze zu lesen.

As He Blocks Election Security Bills, McConnell Takes Checks from Voting Machine Lobbyists
The bills McConnell is blocking would subject the voting machine vendors to new cybersecurity regulations and could reduce their overall sales to states.

In 2016, Russian hackers targeted voting systems in 21 states and, according to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report, breached systems in Illinois and two counties in Florida, gaining access to information on millions of registered voters. In his report, Mueller described the Russian government’s interference in the 2016 elections as “sweeping and systematic.”

Three years later, security experts warn that not enough has been done to address vulnerabilities in the U.S. election system. The director of the Federal Bureau of Investigations recently told Congress that “the threats just keep escalating,” adding that he viewed the 2018 midterms as a “dress rehearsal for the big show in 2020.”

In fourteen states, some 2018 midterm voters submitted their votes on touchscreens that did not produce paper trails necessary to verify their votes or audit election outcomes. If votes had been inaccurately processed in these precincts—whether through equipment errors or foreign hacking operations—election officials wouldn’t have been able to find or correct the problems.

Several Democratic and Republican members of Congress have submitted legislation to shore up election security. Proposals from Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) and Rep. John Sarbanes (D-Md.) include replacing paperless electronic voting machines with hand-marked paper ballots and optical scanners, subjecting voting equipment vendors to rigorous cybersecurity standards, and requiring vendors to report cybersecurity incidents.
But all the bills have hit a roadblock. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has reportedly told his colleagues that he will not allow the Senate to vote on election security legislation this session.

"The only logical conclusion is that Senator McConnell wants American elections to be vulnerable to hackers and foreign interference."
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.)
https://readsludge.com/2019/06/10/as-he-...hine-lobbyists/

The Old School Grift of Mitch McConnell and Elaine Chao
Trump-era grifting is unique in its shamelessness. McConnell and his wife harken back to a simpler (and more enduring) time.

In the Trump era, we’ve become accustomed to political grift looking a certain way: goofy, cartoonish, and almost entirely shameless. The president who swept into Washington full of promises to “drain the swamp” has instead helped a whole rogue’s gallery of boosters, fans, and hangers-on into the public eye: gormless Cabinet officials fibbing about their travel plans to take their wives on taxpayer-funded sightseeing jaunts through Europe, bungling wannabe shakers launching braindead scheme after braindead scheme to destroy the president’s foes, media sycophants battling one another to see who can praise Trump’s every move with the loudest and most breathless superlatives.

The misdeeds of the new corruption class are so over the top that it can be easy to forget that political grift is as old as political power itself.

https://thebulwark.com/the-old-school-gr...nd-elaine-chao/

STATEMENT BY FORMER FEDERAL PROSECUTORS
We are former federal prosecutors. We served under both Republican and Democratic administrations at different levels of the federal system: as line attorneys, supervisors, special prosecutors, United States Attorneys, and senior officials at the Department of Justice. The offices in which we served were small, medium, and large; urban, suburban, and rural; and located in all parts of our country.

Each of us believes that the conduct of President Trump described in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report would, in the case of any other person not covered by the Office of Legal Counsel policy against indicting a sitting President, result in multiple felony charges for obstruction of justice. ...

https://medium.com/@dojalumni/statement-...rs-8ab7691c2aa1

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