Yeah, he’s lost it completely. What happens to a person to make them this way?
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Willful meglomania spurred on by manical power seizing oligarch-adjacent buddy T ('n Co.)
Rudy is fueled by spite…that is what he shares with T.
Was there ever a quiet contemplantive Rudy?? No, he is off the charts brash…but this iteration…is just plain bonkers.
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Here comes the brainstormed defense…comes all at a price.
https://twitter.com/ImagineWorldas1/status/1206262510975717376?s=19. Thx @rusticgorilla
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Arrrggghh
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HUD Secretary Ben Carson has been illegally withholding aid to Puerto Rico for months
‘A National Disgrace’: Trump Proposes Social Security Change That Could End Disability Benefits for Hundreds of Thousands
“Donald Trump and his advisers know that this will kill people, and they do not care. Every current and future Social Security beneficiary must band together to defeat this horrific proposal, or else all of our earned benefits will be next.”
Inspectors warn unsafe pork could make its way to consumers under Trump rule change
The new system will speed up the processing lines and reduce the number of inspectors.
Donald Trump Jr killed rare endangered sheep in Mongolia with special permit
https://news.yahoo.com/donald-trump-jr-killed-rare-193318963.html?soc_src=hl-viewer&soc_trk=tw
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Russia’s State TV Calls Trump Their ‘Agent’
Russian commentators note, rightly, that “sooner or later, the Democrats will come back into power," and they’re already joking about offering Trump asylum.
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When did nazis stop being the villains? Was it Charlotteville? “Very fine people”?
Or was it the Pentagon and major US military units celebrating the Battle of the Bulge with an image of Waffen SS officer & war criminal Joachim Peiper, who was responsible for the Malmedy massacre of US POWs during the battle?
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So this is a thing now.
Boaters warned after Russian spy ship spotted off South Carolina coast – The USCG says they’ve received multiple reports that the RFN Viktor Leonov, a surveillance ship, has been operating “in an unsafe manner”.
FLORENCE, S.C. (WPDE) - A Russian spy ship is maneuvering its way along the Southeast coastline, according to the United States Coast Guard, particularly South Carolina and Florida in recent days.
The USCG says they’ve received multiple reports that the RFN Viktor Leonov, a surveillance ship, has been operating “in an unsafe manner” while navigating through international waters managed by USCG Sector Jacksonville, which covers the ports of Charleston and Savannah.
“We are aware of Russia’s naval activities, including the deployment of intelligence collection ships in the region,” a U.S. Northern Command spokesperson told The Washington Times. “While we won’t discuss specific measures being taken, NORAD and USNORTHCOM routinely conduct air and maritime operations to ensure the defense of the United States and Canada.”
CNN says the Leonov was being shadowed by the Norfolk-based U.S. guided-missile destroyer USS Mahan. The Russian Navy has a long history of surveilling the U.S. via ships. The U.S. Naval Institute reports surveillance ships monitoring U.S. naval bases along the East Coast in the past, including Naval Station Norfolk, Naval Station Mayport, Florida, and the nuclear submarine base at Kings Bay, Georgia. The Leonov regularly patrols along the East Coast and has made at least one appearance annually since 2015, CNN reports.
The Coast Guard says the unsafe operations include not energizing running lights while in reduced visibility areas, not responding to hails by commercial vessels attempting to coordinate safe passage and other erratic movements.
Boaters in waters off the Southeast coast are asked to maintain a sharp lookout and use extreme caution when navigating nearby the vessel. Mariners are asked to report any unsafe situations to the USCG.
The U.S. Naval Institute reports that early this week, U.S. guided-missile destroyer USS Ross was being followed by the Russian corvette Vyshny Volochyok while the Ross was operating off the coast of Romania in the Black Sea.
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Trump inaugural committee under criminal investigation, sources say
Matt Gaetz Tells Veteran That “Democracy Is Not Sacred”
Half of active-duty service members are unhappy with Trump, new Military Times poll shows
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And check out how the numbers are trending. Pretty much a disaster for Trump. From the article:
Prediction: About two months before the election, Trump will announce some kind of financial benefit for our troops.
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Wonder how the T rally is going in MI?
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All of it changed tonight…a line has been drawn in the sand. Whatever comes next, he’s been handed back his due.
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While the rest of Washington focused on impeachment proceedings Wednesday, Mitch McConnell successfully pressed forward on a subject that has been the one knockout success for the Republican Senate and President Donald Trump: judges.
Wednesday afternoon, the Senate majority leader forced a deal with Democrats to expedite 11 federal district judge nominations.
McConnell’s thrust is emblematic of what he sees as his crowning achievement. So far, he has led the charge changing the landscape of the federal courts across the country with a record number of appellate court judges – currently at 50 – and Supreme Court nominees Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh.
“My motto for the remainder of this Congress is ‘leave no vacancy behind,’” McConnell told radio host Hugh Hewitt on Wednesday.
McConnell had scheduled procedural votes on nominees coming roughly every two hours. Two votes were held Wednesday before the agreement was reached to speed things along with 11 consecutive votes in the late afternoon. Final votes to confirm the nominees have not yet been scheduled.
The threat of keeping senators in extra days or through the weekend is a tactic as old as time, but nevertheless usually yields results. Previous deals cutting short debate and allowing nominees to be approved so senators can go home for recess have been met with liberal unhappiness, however.
Two deals reached last year allowed senators to return home to their states during the middle of the re-election campaign, but in the end it was Democratic incumbents who lost, giving the Republicans the stronger 53-47 majority they enjoy today.
In August 2018, the agreement was for 11 administration nominees. In October 2018, it was for 15 – including three appellate judges.
With their majority, Republicans can defeat any Democratic efforts to filibuster, or block a final vote on, any Trump nominee along party lines. And Democrats acknowledge there’s little they can do overall to stop McConnell.
“He’s using his control of the floor and his majority to force votes on a series of judges,” said Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware. “He is determined to confirm as many judges as he possibly can. And we are insisting on a roll call vote on every one of them.”
The nominees under consideration this week are:
Matthew Walden McFarland for the Southern District of Ohio.
Anuraag Singhal for the Southern District of Florida.
Karen Spencer Marston for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Daniel Mack Traynor for the District of North Dakota.
Jodi W. Dishman for the Western District of Oklahoma.
John M. Gallagher for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Bernard Maurice Jones II for the Western District of Oklahoma.
Mary Kay Vyskocil for the Southern District of New York.
Kea Whetzal Riggs for the District of New Mexico.
Robert J. Colville for the Western District of Pennsylvania.
Lewis J. Liman for the Southern District of New York.
Gary Richard Brown for the Eastern District of New York.
Stephanie Dawkins Davis for the Eastern District of Michigan.
The Senate confirmed McFarland by a 56-38 vote, primarily along party lines, Wednesday. Senators voted to cut off debate, or invoke cloture, on the Singhal nomination as well.
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I saw that they removed it, but now they’re gaslighting about it?
So, either these guys were incompetent and are trying to cover for it with a joke or did it on purpose because they’re clowns.
Or both. It could be both.
#BestPeople.
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This one most likely but wow huh?!
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Deregulation brings more uncertainty…whether you eat meat or not.
Two federal inspectors warned that “mystery” meat and other unwanted materials will contaminate pork throughout the U.S. under the new meat inspection rules currently being used in a pilot program, NBC News reported Monday.
Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) inspectors Anthony Vallone and Jill Mauer told NBC News that they filed whistleblower disclosure forms with the Office of Special Counsel about their concerns with the reduction of the required number of federal inspectors at plants.
“The consumer’s being duped,” Mauer said, adding that the meat may be more likely to contain feces, sex organs, toenails, bladders and unwanted hair.
A pilot program for the adjusted rules for pork lines has been implemented at five plants. Five inspectors who worked at these plants talked to NBC News, while four others submitted affidavits with similar concerns.
NBC News notes that none of the inspectors it talked to say they themselves allowed unsafe meat to pass inspection.
“If this continues across the nation, when you open your package of meat, what you’re gonna get for a pathogen is gonna be a mystery,” Mauer added.
Typically, seven federal inspectors check the meat for defects, but under the new rules, the required number would drop to two or three with more experience but less hands-on time with the meat. The plants’ own employees would be instructed to check the meat directly without any required federal training.
The rules would also eliminate the maximum speed of the meat lines, giving less time for inspections.
“You can’t really see very much in that time. So there’s a lot of contamination heading out the door,” Vallone told NBC News.
The other 35 plants in the U.S. are expected to apply for the new inspection rules. Those 40 plants together produce 92 percent of the pork Americans eat, NBC News reported.
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This is my thread about Trump’s transactional nature and use of the dual loyalty canard.
I bring it up because, with the Christianity Today article, Trump is once again boasting he’s the best thing to ever happen to Christianity, and particularly evangelicals.
But it’s the dual loyalty canard again. It’s the same thing he does with blacks and Hispanics and Jews: he’s offering them things they want in the hopes that they’ll completely ignore all of his crimes and atrocities and immorality.
Only in this case it’s actually working for him:
Here’s an excellent thread by another writer looking at Trump’s transactional nature:
Like the stories with Wikileaks and Seth Rich and other GOP/Trump/Russia coverups, Rudy Giuliani didn’t talk Trump into his mad Ukraine gambit.
Putin did.
‘Putin told me’: Former White House officials say Russian president convinced Trump of Ukraine conspiracy theory