President Trump

[brianscharp]

[brianscharp]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOBd3vC7XH4
President Trump rally attendee on how to stop migrants at the border: Shoot them | USA TODAY

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/el-paso-wa ... 019-08-04/
20 killed, dozens injured in El Paso shooting

MAGATerrorism.

[Bill Cummings]

Paris agreement:
https://youtu.be/cVkAsPizAbU

[Bob Kuczewski]

Censorship by YouTube?

https://youtu.be/qH-HwDThHkI



 
 

Censorship by Twitter?

From: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/t ... 53971.html

The Evening Standard

Twitter hides Donald Trump's 'when looting starts, shooting starts' post because it 'glorifies violence'

STEPHANIE COCKROFT 
APRIL ROACH 

Twitter has hidden a tweet from Donald Trump in which he threatened that looters would be shot amid ongoing protests over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

Thousands of protesters took to the streets as part of growing unrest sparked by a distressing video showing Mr Floyd, a 46-year-old African American, being pinned to the ground by his neck by officers despite saying he could not breathe.

The US President described the protesters as "thugs", claiming the situation was "dishonouring the memory" of Mr Floyd, who died in police custody after he was restrained by four officers.

Mr Trump posted on Twitter: "These THUGS are dishonouring the memory of George Floyd, and I won’t let that happen. Just spoke to Governor Tim Walz and told him that the Military is with him all the way.

"Any difficulty and we will assume control but, when the looting starts, the shooting starts. Thank you!"

Shortly after, Twitter added the message: "This Tweet violated the Twitter Rules about glorifying violence. However, Twitter has determined that it may be in the public’s interest for the Tweet to remain accessible."

Trump's Statement:

....These THUGS are dishonoring the memory of George Floyd, and I won’t let that happen. Just spoke to Governor Tim Walz and told him that the Military is with him all the way. Any difficulty and we will assume control but, when the looting starts, the shooting starts. Thank you!

[Bill Cummings]

The day that police are stripped of Qualified Immunity,
(Restoring Equal Protection under the Law.) and pay
their own Malpractice Insurance Policy, and are stripped
of their Supreme Court sanctioned ability to lie to us,
(Equal Protection Under the Law) and not demanding information
that they can only ask for, is the first day the word TRUST
should come up in consensual conversation.
Police acting outside the law will rapidly price themselves out
of a profession that at one time was considered honorable.

[Bob Kuczewski]

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald ... p-n1231675

CULTURE MATTERS

After Trump rally falls flat, TikTok teens take a victory lap for fake reservation campaign

TikTok teens, young adults and K-pop fans celebrated after Trump's Tulsa rally had lower than expected turnout.

June 21, 2020, 12:47 PM PDT / Updated June 22, 2020, 3:17 AM PDT
By Kalhan Rosenblatt

For Diana Mejia, the idea to troll President Donald Trump with false ticket reservations to Saturday's rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, came from TikTok.

On June 12, Mejia, 19, saw a video from TikTok user Mary Jo Laupp, noting people could reserve tickets they had no intention of using in an attempt to humiliate the president with an empty arena. The video has been viewed more than 2 million times as of Sunday, according to TikTok's metrics.

“I saw it was super popular on TikTok, and I was like, ‘We should definitely bring this to Twitter because I haven’t seen this on Twitter,’” Mejia said.

Twenty minutes after seeing the video, Mejia tweeted that she had reserved her own set of tickets: “oh no! I just reserved my tickets for 45’s rally on JUNETEENTH in TULSA and completely forgot that I have to mop my windows that day! now my seats will be EMPTY!”

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Not long after she posted the tongue-in-cheek tweet, it went viral with more than 50,000 likes and other young people saying they planned to do the same.

On Sunday, following a lower-than-expected turnout at Trump’s Tulsa rally, TikTok teens, young adults and K-pop stans (fans of Korean hip-hop and pop music) celebrated their efforts to troll the president. Half a dozen young people told NBC News they felt satisfied after seeing the modest crowd size.

But there was no cap to the tickets available and there’s no data to show if the online campaign targeting the Tulsa rally — which has been a strategy of Trump’s detractors since 2015, when he first announced his candidacy — contributed in any way to the Trump campaign’s excessive expectations about the turnout.

Trump and some of his high-profile supporters had bragged in the days before the rally that more than 1 million people had signed up to attend. Trump Campaign Manager Brad Parscale tweeted on June 14 that “Saturday is going to be amazing” after saying that more than 800,000 people had signed up for tickets at the 19,000-seat Bank of Oklahoma Center.

Approximately 6,200 people attended the rally on Saturday, according to the Tulsa Fire Department.

Parscale downplayed the impact of the online campaign in a statement Sunday.

“Leftists and online trolls doing a victory lap, thinking they somehow impacted rally attendance, don’t know what they’re talking about or how our rallies work. Reporters who wrote gleefully about TikTok and K-Pop fans — without contacting the campaign for comment — behaved unprofessionally and were willing dupes to the charade,” Parscale said.

Parscale said that the campaign weeds out “bogus” reservations and that phony ticket requests “never factor into our thinking.” He blamed the coronavirus, ongoing Black Lives Matter protests and the media for the low turnout.

Although many of the young people who spoke to NBC News were aware that there was no limit to the number of seats that could be reserved, they still took pride in the fact so many of them came together in an attempt to troll the president.

Ruth, 20, of California, who asked that NBC News only identify her by her first name over concerns of online harassment, is a K-pop stan who reserved tickets to the rally.

“I think it’s a reminder we should try to make sure we’re using the power that we have and the voice that we have for good,” she said.

Would tactics like this be considered "tampering with an election"? Or is it just more dirty politics as usual?

The ability for social media campaigns to direct a "fire hose" of attackers at anyone is unprecedented in human history.

[Bob Kuczewski]

President Trump at Mount Rushmore
July 4, 2020



This is a truly great speech.

[Bob Kuczewski]

Washington has not changed Donald Trump.

Donald Trump has changed Washington.

[Bob Kuczewski]

Best wishes for a full and speedy recovery to President Trump.

[Bill Cummings]

I just listened to ABC Evening News
Say that Trump said he was cured. Then they
played a clip where he said, “I feel good.”
“I feel perfect.”
Whether Trump said “cured,” somewhere
else or not I would feel much more comfortable
seeing the video where he spoke the word
“cured,” to verify that the news is accurate.
I didn’t vote for Trump. I can’t vouch for ABC.