Scum of the earth.

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Trump Says He Will ‘Negotiate’ Third Term Because He’s ‘Entitled’ To It

President Donald Trump on Saturday once again suggested interest in serving three terms in office, telling attendees of a campaign event in Nevada that he was "probably entitled" to an additional four years following a hypothetical second term.

"And 52 days from now we're going to win Nevada, and we're going to win four more years in the White House," Trump told the mostly maskless, non-socially-distant crowd of his supporters on Saturday. "And then after that, we'll negotiate, right? Because we're probably — based on the way we were treated — we are probably entitled to another four after that."

Trump has frequently argued that he's been treated unfairly in comparison with his predecessors, often pointing to the Russia investigation and his impeachment. Throughout his first term as president, Trump has also frequently floated the idea that he will attempt to serve more than two terms in office.

In August, at a rally in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, the president similarly suggested he was owed a third presidential term.

"We are going to win four more years," Trump said last month, according to Yahoo News. "And then after that, we'll go for another four years because they spied on my campaign. We should get a redo of four years."

In November 2018, Trump told Fox News' Chris Wallace that he would not seek a constitutional amendment to permit him to serve more than two terms in office. He made the clarification after he had praised Chinese President Xi Jinping's abolishment of presidential term limits.

"He's now president for life. President for life. No, he's great." Trump said in March 2018. "And look, he was able to do that. I think it's great. Maybe we'll have to give that a shot someday."

"I think the eight-year limit is a good thing, not a bad thing," Trump later told Wallace in 2018, though he has continued to float the idea of a third term.

In June 2019, Trump told the "Meet the Press" host Chuck Todd that he was only joking when saying he'd try to serve more than two terms as president.

Presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson established an unofficial two-term limit, though President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected to the office four times, in 1932, 1936, 1940, and 1944, serving 12 years as president before his death in 1945. In February 1951, the 22nd Amendment was ratified, limiting American presidents to serving two terms in office.

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-negotiate-third-term-in-office-2020-9

 

DeJoy Gave $600,000 to GOP After Postmaster Job Opened Up

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-14/dejoy-gave-600-000-to-gop-after-postmaster-job-opened-up

18 minutes ago, EaglesRocker97 said:

Scum of the earth.

 

Trumpbots think he’s joking, or trolling. He isn’t.

6 minutes ago, DaEagles4Life said:

DeJoy Gave $600,000 to GOP After Postmaster Job Opened Up

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-14/dejoy-gave-600-000-to-gop-after-postmaster-job-opened-up

Drain the swamp!

3 minutes ago, Gannan said:

Trumpbots think he’s joking, or trolling. He isn’t.

Nope, fascists gonna fascist...

Nixon resigned then got in that helicopter and flew away.  Trump is gonna get dragged out of the White House in handcuffs.

1 hour ago, EaglesRocker97 said:

Scum of the earth.

 

 

1 hour ago, Gannan said:

Trumpbots think he’s joking, or trolling. He isn’t.

Drain the swamp!

We’ve become desensitized. He says it. People say "ah, he can’t do that... it’s in the constitution.”  
The constitution is only as good as the other branches of government and the republicans completely enable him. They won’t fight this. They have no principles and no backbone. They are all toadies. Every single one of them that actually stood up to trump either quit or died. 
I think the absolute biggest win right now must be the senate. You hold the house and win back the senate; you might not be able to impeach and convict, but you will be able reign his arse in. 

12 minutes ago, Dave Moss said:

Trump is gonna get dragged out of the White House in handcuffs.

Promise?

1 hour ago, Dave Moss said:

Nixon resigned then got in that helicopter and flew away.  Trump is gonna get dragged out of the White House in handcuffs.

In the end, trump is all talk. Anytime in his life when things got tough he gave up and claimed bankruptcy. I think he’ll walk out on his own while saying it was rigged and then start his "news” channel. 2-3 years after that he’ll claim bankruptcy again once his deporables move on to a new cult.

29 minutes ago, Jsvand12 said:

In the end, trump is all talk. Anytime in his life when things got tough he gave up and claimed bankruptcy. I think he’ll walk out on his own while saying it was rigged and then start his "news” channel. 2-3 years after that he’ll claim bankruptcy again once his deporables move on to a new cult.

Trump is a giant pu$sy, but his supporters are a bunch of violent lunatics. Don't sell this situation short: If (when) Trump contests the election, there will be blood in the streets.

5 hours ago, EaglesRocker97 said:

Scum of the earth.

 

Oh their entitled all right.

5 hours ago, EaglesRocker97 said:

Trump is a giant pu$sy, but his supporters are a bunch of violent lunatics. Don't sell this situation short: If (when) Trump contests the election, there will be blood in the streets.

 

Someone didn’t do their homework.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/516421-trump-ad-mistakenly-uses-image-of-russian-jets-in-call-to-support-the

Entitled, huh? Will he be asking for a participation trophy too?

 

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Top Trump health appointee Michael Caputo warns of armed insurrection after election

 A top communications official for the administration’s coronavirus response urged President Trump’s supporters to prepare for an armed insurrection after a contested election and accused government scientists of "sedition” in a Facebook Live chat that he described in detail to The Washington Post on Monday.

Michael Caputo, assistant secretary for public affairs at the Department of Health and Human Services, which is overseeing the coronavirus response, leveled the accusations and promoted other conspiracy theories in a Facebook Live event first reported by the New York Times. Caputo confirmed the authenticity of the video in comments he made to The Post.

"Since joining the administration my family and I have been continually threatened and in and out of criminal court dealing with harassment prosecutions,” Caputo said in a statement. "This weighs heavily on us and we deeply appreciate the friendship and support of President Trump as we address these matters and keep our children safe.”

Caputo’s comments come as Trump administration officials say they are seeking to build public support for a coronavirus vaccine but have faced a series of disappointing setbacks, most recently the release of audio in which the president admitted that he deliberately downplayed the virus when he knew it was "deadly.”

Trump installed Caputo in April after weighing whether to fire Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar over a series of damaging stories about Trump’s handling of the pandemic, according to three current and former White House officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe behind-the-scenes discussions. Allies persuaded Trump to not make such a change amid a pandemic, but instead to bring in Caputo, the officials said. (Trump denied reports that he was considering firing Azar at the time.)

Almost immediately, Caputo began exerting control over officials’ public appearances and statements; by early summer, he had extended that scrutiny to scientists. He and an adviser have faced mounting criticism in recent days for interfering with the work of scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, seeking to change, delay or kill weekly scientific reports they thought undermined Trump’s message that the pandemic is under control. Caputo has also sought to wield influence over when government scientists appear on television, telling officials that he approves such bookings.

Caputo is viewed as a Trump loyalist, but several White House officials said his behavior has been erratic and some of his ideas have been regarded as extreme. For example, he proposed the federal government spend millions of dollars on a professionally directed and produced documentary about the administration’s race to develop vaccines that he wanted to air at film festivals, said a senior administration official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. The idea was rejected by White House communications aides.

In the Facebook video, Caputo criticizes government career scientists, the media and Democrats, the Times reported and Caputo confirmed. He said he was under attack by the media and that his "mental health has definitely failed."

"I don’t like being alone in Washington,” Caputo said in the video, describing "shadows on the ceiling in my apartment, there alone, shadows are so long.”

Caputo also said the CDC, which is part of HHS, had a "resistance unit” that aimed to undermine Trump. Without offering any evidence, he also accused scientists "deep in the bowels of the CDC” of giving up on science and becoming "political animals.”

They "haven’t gotten out of their sweatpants except for meetings at coffee shops” to plot "how they’re going to attack Donald Trump next,” he said in the video. "There are scientists who work for this government who do not want America to get well, not until after Joe Biden is president.”

He also predicted that Trump would win the election but that Biden, the Democratic presidential nominee, would refuse to concede. "And when Donald Trump refuses to stand down at the inauguration, the shooting will begin,” he warned in the video. "The drills that you’ve seen are nothing. If you carry guns, buy ammunition, ladies and gentlemen, because it’s going to be hard to get.”

Several Democratic lawmakers, including Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro (D-Conn.), called late Monday for Caputo’s firing.

"Secretary Azar has a basic responsibility to ensure our public health experts are able to do their jobs, our covid-19 response is not undermined by misinformation or conspiracy theories, and the data used to inform our efforts is free of political interference,” Murray said in a statement.

Noting that Caputo has said the president asked him to oversee a $250 million campaign "intended to help America to get back to normal,” DeLauro said, "We now know this is a propaganda campaign that must be defunded immediately. It is not the mission of the Department of Health and Human Services to get the President reelected.”

House Democrats on the select subcommittee on the coronavirus crisis also announced that they had launched an investigation into political interference in the CDC’s science reports on the pandemic.

Speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss behind-the-scenes conversations, a White House official said the president was aware of Caputo’s comments but that his job appeared to be safe for now. Nonetheless, the official said, some advisers were arguing Caputo should be demoted or removed because of concern that he could damage the administration’s efforts to build public confidence in a prospective coronavirus vaccine.

The official said the White House has also recently expanded its coronavirus vaccine messaging team, detailing staffers from other agencies in an "end run” around Caputo.

Senior White House aides have previously warned Caputo that some of his public comments crossed a line. Caputo deactivated his personal Twitter and Facebook accounts on Monday.

HHS released a statement describing Caputo as "a critical, integral part of the President’s coronavirus response, leading on public messaging as Americans need public health information to defeat the covid-19 pandemic.”

Several current and former administration officials have expressed frustration that Caputo seems more focused on the president’s political fortunes than on combating the pandemic. Caputo denied that, saying that while he cares about the president’s electoral prospects, he is most worried about the deaths and suffering caused by the pandemic. He noted he has urged friends to wear masks. "If you don’t wear a mask, you’re part of the problem,” he said in the interview.

As a former radio talk show host, Caputo said he used to host such Facebook Live events every Sunday until he took the assistant secretary job in April. Since then, he has done two or three such events to talk about the pandemic response.

He said he spoke about being in personal danger on the Facebook Live video because a car had stopped in front of his Buffalo-area home, where he was shooting the video, and a man rolled the car window down and twice yelled profanities and threatened his life.

Since Caputo has been in the HHS job, he said, his two young daughters, now 6 and 8, have been harassed constantly. One man is being prosecuted for yelling profanities at them when they were playing outside, he said. The Post could not immediately confirm that case.

During the video, Caputo said questioners asked whether he would stay in the job because of mounting criticism of his team’s interference in the work of CDC’s weekly scientific missives aimed at the nation’s doctors, known as the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports. He said he expected to remain in his post.

Caputo was an unusual choice for the top health communications job in the government, especially in the middle of the worst public health crisis in a century. A New York public relations specialist and political consultant, Caputo served as campaign manager to controversial businessman Carl Paladino in his unsuccessful bid for governor of New York in 2010. Caputo began working with Trump in 2014, first to assist Trump’s unsuccessful bid to buy the Buffalo Bills that year and then, in 2016, to assist Trump’s efforts in the Republican primary for president in New York.

Caputo remained in the public eye, particularly after the appointment of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III in 2017. In frequent interviews, Caputo bemoaned the investigation and the effect it had on Trump allies who faced hefty legal bills as they received subpoenas and requests for interviews with investigators. When the investigation wrapped, Trump hosted Caputo for a meeting in the Oval Office and took pictures with his family.

Caputo himself drew the attention of Mueller’s investigators in part because he had had contact with a Russian who offered damaging information about Hillary Clinton during the 2016 campaign.

In May 2016, Caputo said, a Russian man approached his then-business partner, Sergey "George” Petrushin at an art gallery opening in Florida, claiming to have information that could be helpful to Trump’s campaign. Petrushin connected him with Caputo, who arranged for him to meet with political operative Roger Stone, a longtime friend.

According to the Mueller report, which described the episode, investigators found no link between the Russian man’s outreach and the broader effort by Russia to interfere in the 2016 election.

As a political adviser and public relations specialist, Caputo also had lived for a time in Moscow in the 1990s, where he worked on a campaign reminiscent of "Rock the Vote” on behalf of then-Russian President Boris Yeltsin.

Returning to the United States, Caputo took a contract in 2000 working for the Russian conglomerate Gazprom Media to improve Vladimir Putin’s image in the United States. He later told the Buffalo News that he was "not proud of the work,” adding, "at the time, Putin wasn’t such a bad guy.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/09/14/michael-caputo-coronavirus-cdc/

 

he's just trolling libs. 

I’m pretty sure that warning people about insurrections after the election is what Facebook live is for

He actually doesn't believe in science at all.  This must coincide with his personality disorder is my conclusion.  It is horrible. He has to completely dismiss it since only HE is right and the almighty that knows everything.  

I hope the smoke from the fires would be able to knock out some communications like MSM-I can't watch any of this.  This Caputo guy is just another hack

Who are these nutters that keep finding ways into the Trump administration?

If he hates it in Washington so much, why don't they just go tell him to take a hike?

 

This is a bit old, but maybe the best comedic description of the Trump Presidency.

MAGAbots: "Trump wants to bring our troops home and end forever wars!"

Trump: "Yo I'm trying to assassinate Assad but this a-hole Mattis over here keeps effing me up."

MAGAbots:

2 minutes ago, mayanh8 said:

MAGAbots: "Trump wants to bring our troops home and end forever wars!"

Trump: "Yo I'm trying to assassinate Assad but this a-hole Mattis over here keeps effing me up."

MAGAbots:

The thought of Trump actually caring about the lives of our service members sure was quaint. 

24 minutes ago, mayanh8 said:

MAGAbots: "Trump wants to bring our troops home and end forever wars!"

Trump: "Yo I'm trying to assassinate Assad but this a-hole Mattis over here keeps effing me up."

MAGAbots:

He personally wiped them out! 

Good article on the Trump Cult

https://www.axios.com/trump-merchandise-fashion-boats-flags-9d27d9cb-ff09-4119-a512-1514fbd5d363.html

The Trump identity and fashion statement

If President Trump defies today's swing-state polls and pulls off another upset, what will we have missed that could have been a clue?

Here's a big one: Trump flotillas ... Trump flags bigger than American flags ... Trump truck rallies ... Trump shirts ... Trump underwear ... lawns that don't have a Trump-Pence sign or two but 50 or even 100 — a forest.

Why it matters: To his diehard supporters, Trump isn't just a candidate. He's a lifestyle choice and a vehicle for self-expression — a way to continually flip the middle finger at big media, big business, big government ... anything big.

It's all part of one of the big Trump triumphs — convincing his voters that an attack on him is actually an attack on them.
A hat, popular in rural convenience stores this summer, says it all: "If You Don't Like Trump Then You Probably Won't Like Me."

At rallies, you see people wearing Trump flags like a billowing robe. And a lot of this isn't official campaign merch — people print these up themselves.
At a Trumper classic-car rally in Michigan this weekend, one red, white and blue Trump flag — in place of "Keep America Great" — said, "NO MORE B.S.," with the last word spelled out. Nearby, a man wore a flag-bedecked t-shirt proclaiming: "JESUS IS MY SAVIOR / TRUMP IS MY PRESIDENT."

Trump regattas are everywhere, from the solid South to the fancy waters of Mystic, Conn. (Bad metaphorical optics when five Trump boats, swamped by the wake from a massive lake rally, sank near Austin over Labor Day.)
Boats with Trump accessories all over them.
A Trump boat parade passes Mar-a-Lago on Labor Day. Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images
"Axios on HBO" went to Lake of the Ozarks, Mo., to explore this phenomenon for a segment we call, "Trump on the lake."

Axios CEO Jim VandeHei: "In your lifetime, do you ever remember a Ronald Reagan flag as big as the American flag in somebody's front yard? Do you ever remember someone spray painting 'Obama' on their boat?"
White House editor Margaret Talev: "No, but there's never been a president whose brand was branding. ... They like the fact that he says things that you're not allowed to say — that he says things that they feel that they can't say at work or in mixed company."
Randy Kelly, a retired boat dealer who has lived at Lake of the Ozarks since moving down from Kansas City 43 years ago, told "Axios on HBO":

"If you see someone that has on a Trump hat, there's a camaraderie: Hey, we got something in common."
The bottom line: Trump touts a "silent majority," and pundits pundit about "shy Trump voters" who may be missed by pollsters.

But one of the stories of this election is that the Trump vote is screaming, not silent.
 

so true.  i'm seeing so many trumpbots refer to the "silent majority" lately...even though silent is the one thing they're not.