2020 US Presidential Election (aka: The Trump Coronation)

Overheal

Laura Ingraham had a nutcase on today, and didn't seem to object to what she was saying in criticism of school closures:

"These [teachers] unions are actually using our schools to sexualize our children and to train them and anti-American ideology [...] They do this with a coalition of almost 180 organizations, including, sadly, the CDC, Planned Parenthood, and Black Lives Matter Inc. It is shocking what they were teaching our children online through virtual learning. They are teaching our children to sext, to view pornography, they are hooking them up with online sex experts. So what they are doing is grooming our children for sexual predators to use them. This is child abuse…This is one of the big reasons that unions want to keep our schools closed, because they can sneak these evil lessons past loving teachers who have no idea of keeping them virtual."

Of course now the righties will pick this up and use it to contort their own worldview. Gross. Just throwing out the names of scapegoats to boogeyman and conjuring fearmongering fantasy, they want parents more afraid of imagined sex predators than of the actual pandemic.

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/fox-news-guest-claims-online-learning-is-grooming-our-children-for-sexual-predators/

ohnonotgmail

for every other president in history hawking beans from the resolute desk would be an all time low. not for trump though



https://www.instagram.com/p/CCrAzKiBFUQ/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading

kilns

Overheal wrote: »

They're not, and the $970,000 figure WaPo is looking at is Trump property spending specifically for room rentals alone. Golf carts are another separate line item, and cost $588,000 between Trumps election and January 2020 (Wapo link below)

Just 1 month in 2017 taxpayer burden for Trump's travel was $13.6 million, which is about 13x the rate of Obama's term figures you just mentioned. 2 months into Trumps term in office the Secret Service went to Congress and had to ask for a $60M budget increase "to manage presidential travel"

It's not a wonder then that the Trump administration is trying to go to some considerable effort to hide more transparent reporting of these expenses, delaying measures to report the expenditures through the treasury department until FY 2021, after the election:

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/01/trump-wants-to-hide-secret-service-cost-of-family-trips.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-company-has-received-at-least-970000-from-us-taxpayers-for-room-rentals/2020/05/14/26d27862-916d-11ea-9e23-6914ee410a5f_story.html

He is one of the biggest scam artists the world has ever known and Howard Stern (who was a friend) was right by saying this was all a big publicity stunt but now he is milking it for all its worth.

To date according to FEC filings since 2016 the MAGA fund raising committee has paid USD17.4m to Trump properties and businesses. Those in the Trump base who donate their USD50 or whateever to the campaign might as well walk into one of his hotels and just put the cash directly into the till

In 5/10 years time people will look back on this and think how were scammed by this

WrenBoy

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

for every other president in history hawking beans from the resolute desk would be an all time low. not for trump though



https://www.instagram.com/p/CCrAzKiBFUQ/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading

Its more to do with the backlash Robert Unanue got for openly supporting Trump, as he's latino he shouldn't do that apparently. He's the owner of Goya foods and people have called for a boycott because of his heinous crime.

ohnonotgmail

WrenBoy wrote: »

Its more to do with the backlash Robert Unanue got for openly supporting Trump, as he's latino he shouldn't do that apparently. He's the owner of Goya foods and people have called for a boycott because of his heinous crime.

the president is hawking beans from the resolute desk. his daughter did the same. somehow you think is acceptable. trump supporters really dont have a bottom do you?

WrenBoy

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

the president is hawking beans from the resolute desk. his daughter did the same. somehow you think is acceptable. trump supporters really dont have a bottom do you?

He's showing support for Robert Unanue the owner of Goya Foods who vocally supported Trump and people attacked Unanue for it. Its pretty basic election PR for Trump who is placing himself on the side of a Latino US business against the cancel culture mob. Its basic stuff like but if you want to boil it down to "Trump sell bean" work away man, just pretty ignorant of the actual story. Im Irish so I don't really care who wins over there btw.

weisses

WrenBoy wrote: »

Its more to do with the backlash Robert Unanue got for openly supporting Trump, as he's latino he shouldn't do that apparently. He's the owner of Goya foods and people have called for a boycott because of his heinous crime.

Freedom of speech works both ways ... just saying

ohnonotgmail

WrenBoy wrote: »

He's showing support for Robert Unanue the owner of Goya Foods who vocally supported Trump and people attacked Unanue for it. Its pretty basic election PR for Trump who is placing himself on the side of a Latino US business against the cancel culture mob. Its basic stuff like but if you want to boil it down to "Trump sell bean" work away man, just pretty ignorant of the actual story. Im Irish so I don't really care who wins over there btw.

if it is election PR then he shouldn't be doing it. It is an offence to campaign on federal property. More casual law breaking from trump.

WrenBoy

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

if it is election PR then he shouldn't be doing it. It is an offence to campaign on federal property. More casual law breaking from trump.

He's the divil alright, bloody rogue so he is.

Timberrrrrrrr

WrenBoy wrote: »

He's showing support for Robert Unanue the owner of Goya Foods who vocally supported Trump and people attacked Unanue for it. Its pretty basic election PR for Trump who is placing himself on the side of a Latino US business against the cancel culture mob. Its basic stuff like but if you want to boil it down to "Trump sell bean" work away man, just pretty ignorant of the actual story. Im Irish so I don't really care who wins over there btw.

he's sitting at the desk that some of the greatest American Presidents have used, with packets of beans in front of him and smiling like a child that has been told he is off to Mcdonald's for dinner. Do you not even see how this debases the office of the president and makes a mockery of it?

hotmail.com

Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »

he's sitting at the desk that some of the greatest American Presidents have used, with packets of beans in front of him and smiling like a child that has been told he is off to Mcdonald's for dinner. Do you not even see how this debases the office of the president and makes a mockery of it?

America has had great presidents?

duploelabs

hotmail.com wrote: »

America has had great presidents?

Certainly better individuals than the incumbent

WrenBoy

Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »

he's sitting at the desk that some of the greatest American Presidents have used, with packets of beans in front of him and smiling like a child that has been told he is off to Mcdonald's for dinner. Do you not even see how this debases the office of the president and makes a mockery of it?

Not really but maybe I don't hold the office in as high a reverence as you do, its a non story to me really. Not like he's filming TV ads in the white house for it or anything. Probably takes a load of pics like this everyday no ?

circadian

WrenBoy wrote: »

He's the divil alright, bloody rogue so he is.

I'd imagine the argument would be different if, say, Obama did it. There was outrage over ordering Dijon mustard for **** sake.

circadian

WrenBoy wrote: »

Not really but maybe I don't hold the office in as high a reverence as you do, its a non story to me really. Not like he's filming TV ads in the white house for it or anything. Probably takes a load of pics like this everyday no ?

No.

Kidchameleon

hotmail.com wrote: »

America has had great presidents?

For sure. The people of Libya can attest to that

ohnonotgmail

WrenBoy wrote: »

Not really but maybe I don't hold the office in as high a reverence as you do, its a non story to me really. Not like he's filming TV ads in the white house for it or anything. Probably takes a load of pics like this everyday no ?

no. and what exactly do you think he doing but advertising a product?

WrenBoy

circadian wrote: »

I'd imagine the argument would be different if, say, Obama did it. There was outrage over ordering Dijon mustard for **** sake.

Really ? what happened ? Just Googled it, Christ... thats fairly pathetic ha

ohnonotgmail

circadian wrote: »

I'd imagine the argument would be different if, say, Obama did it. There was outrage over ordering Dijon mustard for **** sake.

not forgetting how much the GOP lost their **** when obama wore a tan suit.

Agent Smith

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

not forgetting how much the GOP lost their **** when obama wore a tan suit.

Neverforget #tangate




(tbh, i always thought it was a nice suit.....)

WrenBoy

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

no. and what exactly do you think he doing but advertising a product?

Showing support for someone being punished for supporting him.

salmocab

WrenBoy wrote: »

Showing support for someone being punished for supporting him.

Showing support would be maybe talking about him, sitting behind his products for a photo is advertising.

Quin_Dub

circadian wrote: »

I'd imagine the argument would be different if, say, Obama did it. There was outrage over ordering Dijon mustard for **** sake.

WrenBoy wrote: »

Really ? what happened ?

Obama put Dijon Mustard on a burger and Fox went on about it for weeks , claiming that it meant he was elitist and out of touch because he didn't use ketchup like a "real american"


They also lost the plot when he wore a Tan suit to a press conference

WrenBoy

Quin_Dub wrote: »

Obama put Dijon Mustard on a burger and Fox went on about it for weeks , claiming that it meant he was elitist and out of touch because he didn't use ketchup like a "real american"


They also lost the plot when he wore a Tan suit to a press conference

Ya I googled it since, pretty pathetic alright.

ohnonotgmail

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

for every other president in history hawking beans from the resolute desk would be an all time low. not for trump though



https://www.instagram.com/p/CCrAzKiBFUQ/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading

FFS white house product placement! Is this how low US politics has sunk.

salmocab

[Deleted User] wrote: »

FFS white house product placement! Is this how low US politics has sunk.

Yes

tigger123

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

for every other president in history hawking beans from the resolute desk would be an all time low. not for trump though



https://www.instagram.com/p/CCrAzKiBFUQ/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading

That can't be real, is it?

salmocab

salmocab wrote: »

Yes

It's sad to think of some of the people who worked at that desk and did great things and then this orange clown comes in and starts hawking beans. Truly sad.

ohnonotgmail

tigger123 wrote: »

That can't be real, is it?

i included a link to the instagram page where trump posted it. it is very much real.

baaba maal

Kidchameleon wrote: »

For sure. The people of Libya can attest to that

Or Nicaragua, Mexico, Chile, Iraq etc. Of all the disasterous interventions in other countries, you choose Libya. I get it- you don't like the previous incumbent (a massive disappointment to me, especally the second term). But don't pretend Trump good Obama bad, given the embarrassment of the North Korean escapades, for example.