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July 7, 2021

9/2015 Business Insider, Trump's interest in Hitler had been known from before the 2016 election.

But did we hear about this? No, but we heard 24/7 about Hillary, her emails, and her email server.

Sadly I think at least 50% of Trump supporters are totally fine with Trump getting "tips from Hitler."
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Business Insider
Sep 1, 2015, 8:25 AM

Donald Trump's ex-wife once said Trump kept a book of Hitler's speeches by his bed

According to a 1990 Vanity Fair interview, Ivana Trump once told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that her husband, real-estate mogul Donald Trump, now a leading Republican presidential candidate, kept a book of Hitler's speeches near his bed.

"Last April, perhaps in a surge of Czech nationalism, Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler's collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed ... Hitler's speeches, from his earliest days up through the Phony War of 1939, reveal his extraordinary ability as a master propagandist," Marie Brenner wrote.

Hitler was one of history's most prolific orators, building a genocidal Nazi regime with speeches that bewitched audiences.

"He learned how to become a charismatic speaker, and people, for whatever reason, became enamored with him," Professor Bruce Loebs, who has taught a class called the Rhetoric of Hitler and Churchill for the past 46 years at Idaho State University, told Business Insider earlier this year.

"People were most willing to follow him, because he seemed to have the right answers in a time of enormous economic upheaval."


https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trumps-ex-wife-once-said-he-kept-a-book-of-hitlers-speeches-by-his-bed-2015-8

July 6, 2021

Paul Krugman, "We've gained three million jobs since Biden took office."

It’s Morning in Joe Biden’s America (Oh, and so much for Donald Trump’s warnings that there would be a “Biden depression” if he weren’t re-elected.)

Last Tuesday President Biden’s Council of Economic Advisers published a blog post warning everyone not to make too much of any one month’s employment report. It presumably released this in advance of Friday’s report to fend off possible accusations that it was just trying to make excuses for a weak number. As it happened, however, the report came in strong: The economy added an impressive 850,000 jobs.

The job gain was especially impressive given widespread claims that businesses couldn’t expand because generous unemployment benefits were discouraging workers from taking jobs. (Recent benefit cuts in many states came too late to have affected this report.) Well, somehow employers are managing to hire a lot of people anyway.

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At this point, however, we have enough data in hand to declare that the economy is booming. In fact, it’s booming so strongly that Republicans have pivoted from claiming (falsely) that we’re experiencing the worst job performance in decades to lauding the employment numbers and giving credit to … Trump’s 2017 tax cut.

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We’ve gained three million jobs since Biden took office, or 600,000 jobs a month. This compares with gains of 340,000 a month in the year leading up to the 1984 election.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/05/opinion/joe-biden-economy.html

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Quick everybody look at the border. "Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine sending state troopers to U.S.-Mexico border"

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142765764

Let me guess "they" are gonna make border security and issue in 2022 & 2024 because Joe, Kamala,

and the rest of the Biden team are doing such a good job on everything else.

This is all kabuki theater. Good God in Butter what a fucking waste of money and manpower.

I hope none of the Ohio State Troopers gets sick and or dies in the heat on the TX/Mexico border in July and August.



July 4, 2021

What to do with the 1/6/21 un American rioters? Strip all of them of their US citizenship.

Strip all of them of their US citizenship and give them 60 days to leave the country.

Except for the leadership of that movement and they should get the Super-Max prison in Colorado.

July 2, 2021

Neil Katyal*, "Donald Trump's Business Was Labeled A 'Criminal Organization'"

* From Wiki
Neal Kumar Katyal (born March 12, 1970) is an American lawyer and academic. He is a partner at Hogan Lovells and the Paul and Patricia Saunders Professor of National Security Law at Georgetown University Law Center. During the Obama administration, Katyal served as Acting Solicitor General of the United States from May 2010 until June 2011. Previously, Katyal served as an attorney in the Solicitor General's office, and as Principal Deputy Solicitor General in the U.S. Justice Department. He is currently a Partner of Chamath Palihapitiya Social+capital Partnership and a member of the board of Social Capital Ventures Inc.

Katyal has argued more Supreme Court cases than any other minority lawyer in American history.

Education Dartmouth College (BA)
Yale University (JD)


https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017665027

thanx to DUer YoshidaYui for posting this 1st

July 1, 2021

ATTN Rep. McCarthy .... Trae Crowder aka the Liberal Redneck speaks for me.




Trae, "So I say for one fine, floor it sally forth. Fuck 'em up and let's see what happens."
June 30, 2021

Never forget this about Rumsfeld

In Dec. of 2001 or January of 2002 we had an elite squad of Rangers less then 1 mile of bin Laden's cave in the mountains of Afghanistan and he called them off. And why did he do that you ask? Because with Osama bin Laden dead they would have had a much harder time selling Cheney's war for Iraqi oil.

Rummy also signed off on PNAC's (project for a new American Century) letter to President Clinton asking for a war in Iraq.

That poor little Syrian boy laying dead on that Turkish beach was running with his family from ISIS which was created in the aftermath of Rummy/Cheney/bush's Iraq War.

Fuck him I hope he suffered.

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