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Read this today. Thought of you...

“Orange Man Bad,” they say.

As if, by taking ownership of this fact, it somehow invalidates it.

To these Trump supporters, and cos-play non-supporters, it is only the simpleminded folk who cling to the superstitious belief that a bad man having the most important job in the world is a serious concern. Those of us who are bothered by the insane ravings of a narcissistic imbecile aren’t able to see the big picture.

The view of these sophisticates is that yes this man is bad, but also maybe having him in charge can be . . . not bad. Maybe even good. For as bad as President Orange Man is, there are more pressing matters that serious people must consider.

For instance: What if a daytime CNN anchor uses hyperbole?

Or a Washington Post columnist publishes a tweet that contradicts a tweet she tweeted three years ago?

What if, somewhere in the universe, there is a liberal who needs to be owned?

Are Republicans and conservatives—and even conscientious non-Trump supporters—supposed to obsess over every little thing the leader of the free world says and does and ignore the bigger game that’s afoot?

Just because 2,000 Americans are dying from a pandemic every day?

Get real, bro.

This conceit is endlessly fascinating to me. It’s the old debate trick of performatively conceding the lesser point in order to win the broader point—but in reverse. Trump’s people concede the most significant matter just so that they can argue the ephemera.

So they employ the MAGAfied “Orange Man Bad” retort on social media as a way of stepping over his badness to address something else, rather than engage with it.

The Orange Man Bad practitioners would argue that they are simply trying to expose the shallowness of Trump’s opposition, the weakness of their argumentation.

And while the phenomena of #resistance members opposing a policy that they might otherwise support were it not for the Bad Orange Man being behind it has certainly been known to exist, as a political matter, conceding that the president is bad is not the strongest turf for pointing out your foe’s weak argumentation.
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Actually, the Orange Man Is Bad

This week America tallied the 75,000th official death from COVID-19—the real number won’t be known until after the crisis has passed and will be much higher. Last week the 30 millionth unemployment claim was submitted. Amidst this death and destruction the president of the United States has been...
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Read this today. Thought of you...



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Actually, the Orange Man Is Bad

This week America tallied the 75,000th official death from COVID-19—the real number won’t be known until after the crisis has passed and will be much higher. Last week the 30 millionth unemployment claim was submitted. Amidst this death and destruction the president of the United States has been...
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Nah, your own actions validate it.
 
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"I learned a lot from Richard Nixon, don’t fire people. I learned a lot by watching Richard Nixon.” - Donald J Trump.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1258736186245382146

Fired by Donald J Trump:

Steve Bannon
John Bolton
Tom Bossert
James Comey
John Kelly
Andrew McCabe
H.R McMaster
Reince Priebus
Anthony Scaramucci
Jeff Sessions
Rex Tillerson
Sally Yates
Michael Anton
Derek Harvey
Rich Higgins
John McEntee
Mira Ricardel
Nadia Schadlow
David Shulkin
Ezra Watnick

We're not sure about Don McGahn and Herr Gorka 'tho... Fired, not fired, who knows.
 
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"I learned a lot from Richard Nixon, don’t fire people. I learned a lot by watching Richard Nixon.” - Donald J Trump.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1258736186245382146

Fired by Donald J Trump:

Steve Bannon
John Bolton
Tom Bossert
James Comey
John Kelly
Andrew McCabe
H.R McMaster
Reince Priebus
Anthony Scaramucci
Jeff Sessions
Rex Tillerson
Sally Yates
Michael Anton
Derek Harvey
Rich Higgins
John McEntee
Mira Ricardel
Nadia Schadlow
David Shulkin
Ezra Watnick

We're not sure about Don McGahn and Herr Gorka 'tho... Fired, not fired, who knows.
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Lol way over your head.
 
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greg0205 said:
"I learned a lot from Richard Nixon, don’t fire people. I learned a lot by watching Richard Nixon.” - Donald J Trump.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1258736186245382146

Fired by Donald J Trump:

Steve Bannon
John Bolton
Tom Bossert
James Comey
John Kelly
Andrew McCabe
H.R McMaster
Reince Priebus
Anthony Scaramucci
Jeff Sessions
Rex Tillerson
Sally Yates
Michael Anton
Derek Harvey
Rich Higgins
John McEntee
Mira Ricardel
Nadia Schadlow
David Shulkin
Ezra Watnick

We're not sure about Don McGahn and Herr Gorka 'tho... Fired, not fired, who knows.
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Roger Stone also learnt a lot from Nixon, even has a tattoo of Nixon on his back.



www.politico.com

Roger Stone sentenced to over 3 years in prison

The president has called Stone's treatment a miscarriage of justice, raising questions about whether he will grant clemency to his longtime political confidant.
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I'mma just leave this here:

Team Trump Wants Flynn Back for 2020, Sees Him as Its ‘Nelson Mandela’

Of the nine senior Trump administration officials, campaign staff, outside advisers, and longtime associates of the president reached on Thursday, all said that they wanted Flynn to assume some public-facing role in service of the president, including potentially as an official Trump surrogate as Election Day inches closer. One even compared the ex-general, who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russian officials, to one of history’s greatest human rights icons.

“Years ago when Nelson Mandela came to America after years of political persecution he was treated like a rock star by Americans,” John McLaughlin, one of President Trump’s chief pollsters, told The Daily Beast on Thursday evening. “Now after over three years of political persecution General Flynn is our rock star. A big difference is that he was persecuted in America.”
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Trumptard imbecilic redneck hicks

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Revealed: major anti-lockdown group's links to America's far right

American Revolution 2.0, which presents itself as bipartisan, has been assisted by far-right individuals – some with extremist links
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American Revolution 2.0, which presents itself as bipartisan, has been assisted by far-right individuals – some with extremist links

Leaked audio recordings and online materials obtained by the Guardian reveal that one of the most prominent anti-lockdown protest groups, American Revolution 2.0 (AR2), has received extensive assistance from well-established far-right actors, some with extremist connections.

AR2 presents itself as a grassroots network, but the recordings and other materials reveal its allies include a well-connected Tea Party co-founder and a family of serial online activists who have rolled out dozens of “reopen” websites and Facebook groups.

Its website was built and is hosted by a web designer long active in far-right circles online, and who runs a bespoke social media network for the militia movement. One of that website’s previous users bombed a mosque, and another user, now memorialized on the site, was recently shot dead by police in Maryland during a firearms raid.
 
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What a dumb Orange Dotard.

Coronavirus live news: Donald Trump says virus will 'go away without a vaccine'

President Trump on Friday broke with health experts, telling reporters that the coronavirus will “go away without a vaccine.”

“This is going to go away without a vaccine, it's gonna go away, and we're not going to see it again, hopefully, after a period of time,” Trump said at the White House. “You may have some flare-ups and I guess I would expect that.”

Just days ago, the Trump administration launched “Operation Warp Speed,” a project to accelerate the production of a vaccine for the coronavirus, which, as of Friday had infected at least 1.2 million Americans and killed more than 76,000 here.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the leading expert on infectious diseases on the coronavirus task force, has repeatedly cautioned that a vaccine was still at least a year to 18 months from being made available to the public.



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Obama says White House response to coronavirus has been 'absolute chaotic disaster'



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Obama says the 'rule of law is at risk' in the Mike Flynn DOJ case

Former President Barack Obama (seen left with then-President-elect Donald Trump at the White House in 2017) on Friday blasted the decision to drop the case against ex-NSA Michael Flynn (right).
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Obama: ‘Rule of Law Is at Risk’ After DOJ Moved to Drop Charges Against Flynn

He also called the Trump administration’s approach to the coronavirus pandemic “an absolute chaotic disaster.”
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Former President Barack Obama told erstwhile members of his administration on a private call Friday that he was deeply worried by the Justice Department’s handling of the case against former national security adviser Michael Flynn, Yahoo News reports.

The DOJ moved to dismiss charges against Flynn this week despite his earlier guilty plea. Obama reportedly said, “The fact that there is no precedent that anybody can find for someone who has been charged with perjury just getting off scot-free. That’s the kind of stuff where you begin to get worried that basic—not just institutional norms—but our basic understanding of rule of law is at risk.” The reference, he explained, was intended as an invocation of urgency in the upcoming election.

He also called the Trump administration’s approach containing the new coronavirus pandemic “an absolute chaotic disaster.”
 
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