Seabass wrote:Wtf? Trump has been playing "Macho Man" at his rallies??

The Village People order Trump to stop playing ‘Macho Man’ and ‘YMCA’ at rallies
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/village-people-trump-macho-man-ymca-rallies-tweet-a9556251.html

Trump campaign demands CNN apologize for poll that shows Biden leading

OlivierK wrote:You missed the obvious one that Trump particularly focuses his insults on accusing others of his own flaws (Low Energy Jeb, Lyin's Ted, Crooked Hillary, Fake News, "No, you're Putin's puppet!", Biden's doing something dodgy in Ukraine, bad people on both sides of neo-Nazi protests/counter-protests).

Animavore wrote:

Trump campaign demands CNN apologize for poll that shows Biden leading

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/10/poli ... index.html

I think this calls for another drink

It's funny how America has so many ressources to make sure countries around the world get democracy, but then America never seems to have the ressources to make sure there is democracy IN America.

Trump authorises sanctions against ICC officials

US says it will punish court workers investigating alleged war crimes by US forces and their allies including Israel.

North Korea Says Trump’s ‘Empty Promise’ Dashes Hopes for Deal

aban57 wrote:

The elite military club that's scorning Trump
Peter Bergen
Opinion by Peter Bergen, CNN National Security Analyst
Updated 8:28 PM ET, Mon June 8, 2020

Now that so many top retired military officers are speaking out against Trump as the 2020 presidential election campaign heats up some of these officers may organize to try to defeat him.
That would be uncharted territory for the United States, but Americans are living through extraordinary times.

It should have happened 155 years ago, when Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox, but maybe — just maybe — the Civil War is finally coming to an end. And perhaps Donald Trump, not Jefferson Davis, will go down in history as the last president of the Confederacy.

Symbols like flags and monuments matter, because what they symbolize is our vision of ourselves as a nation: the heroes, battles, movements, sacrifices and ideals we honor. So when I see multiracial crowds toppling the statues of Confederate soldiers and politicians, when I see respected military leaders arguing that Army posts should no longer bear the names of Confederate generals, when I see NASCAR banning displays of the Confederate battle flag at its races — witnessing all of this, I let hope triumph over experience and allow myself to imagine that this may indeed be a transformational moment.

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The president’s niece Mary Trump is set to publish a tell-all this summer—and to reveal that she was a primary source for The New York Times’ investigation into Trump’s taxes.


Donald Trump’s niece, his deceased brother’s daughter, is set to publish a tell-all book this summer that will detail “harrowing and salacious” stories about the president, according to people with knowledge of the project.

Mary Trump, 55, the daughter of Fred Trump Jr. and eldest grandchild of Fred Trump Sr., is scheduled to release Too Much And Never Enough on July 28, Simon & Schuster confirmed Monday, just weeks before the Republican National Convention.

One of the most explosive revelations Mary will detail in the book, according to people familiar with the matter, is how she played a critical role helping The New York Times print startling revelations about Trump’s taxes, including how he was involved in “fraudulent” tax schemes and had received more than $400 million in today’s dollars from his father’s real estate empire.

As she is set to outline in her book, Mary was a primary source for the paper's Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation, supplying Fred Trump Sr.’s tax returns and other highly confidential family financial documentation to the paper.

Details of the book are being closely guarded by its publisher, Simon & Schuster, but The Daily Beast has learned that Mary plans to include conversations with Trump’s sister, retired federal judge Maryanne Trump Barry, that contain intimate and damning thoughts about her brother, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

Mary Trump has kept out of the public eye and has not spoken publicly in decades—but in 2000, amidst a bitter family court battle over Fred Trump Sr.’s will, she told the New York Daily News, "Given this family, it would be utterly naive to say it has nothing to do with money. But for both me and my brother, it has much more to do with that our father [Fred Jr.] be recognized," she said...

theropod_V_2.0 wrote:My sister-in-law lives in SW Seattle, and according to her the “occupy” movement is nothing more than a music festival with a purpose.

The abhorrent murder of George Floyd has inspired millions to protest police brutality and the persistence of racism. Sadly, the government has threatened to use the Army in which you serve as a weapon against fellow Americans engaging in these legitimate protests. Worse, military leaders, who took the same oath you take today, have participated in politically charged events. The principle of civilian control is central to the military profession. But that principle does not imply blind obedience. Politicization of the Armed Forces puts at risk the bond of trust between the American military and American society. Should this trust be ruptured, the damage to the nation would be incalculable. America needs your leadership.
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When fellow graduates fail to respect the checks and balances of government, promote individual power above country, or prize loyalty to individuals over the ideals expressed in the Constitution, it is a travesty to their oath of office.