All Things Trump: Is it over yet?

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China!
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/05/china-f ... trump.html
China on Monday allowed its currency to slide below what has been a psychological red line—the key 7 yuan to the dollar level — for the first time since 2008. China also halted new purchases of U.S. agricultural products, according to state run media.

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On a skepitcs forum. Foolmewunz:

We should have a poll as to how long before, and in what form, he walks back his kumbaya speech from Monday.

I say, less than a week, and it'll be a Tweet attacking some inconveniently brown person.

My ex-wife says it'll be "whenever his next rally is" and he'll get carried away and feel he has to say something nice about the screaming bigots.

My comedy-writer alter-ego says it'll be a Captain Queeg moment in the Rose Garden when he'll do a Rainman.... "I'm not a bigot it's the *******(n-word) press that's trying to make it sound like I am. But I'm the only president in the past two years to form a committee to investigate how come white nationalists are so wrong when they should be so right. No other President has done that, certainly not that high yaller who was in the White House before me."

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Colbert: "Congress is finding it hard to levitate and eat fire. So they should try to do it at the same time!"
Joke on the Trump solution on guns and borders
https://www.thedailybeast.com/stephen-c ... BY4x6P4vOE

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We must call the El Paso shooting what it is: Trump-inspired terrorism

Last year, when a rabid, anti-immigrant antisemite murdered 11 people in a Pittsburgh synagogue, I called it an act of domestic terrorism inspired by the ideology of Trumpism. The shooting took place during the height of the 2018 midterm campaign when Trump was inciting fear of an immigrant “caravan” from Central America. The shooter got the message. Hours before his bloody rampage, he accused a Jewish refugee support agency of bringing “invaders in that kill our people”.

Saturday in El Paso it was deja vu all over again.

Trump has launched his 2020 re-election campaign this summer by doubling down on the theme of racial and ethnic division and anti-immigrant hysteria. And as sure as the sun rises in the east, a mere month into this racially charged atmosphere, an extremist suspect fearful of Hispanics gaining political power in Texas decided to go kill as many Hispanics as possible at an El Paso Walmart. It is Trump-inspired terrorism yet again.

The manifesto the El Paso shooter posted online reflects that he understood and endorsed the president’s political program to a T. The attack, the shooter wrote was “in response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas”. Echoing the president’s logic that cruel conditions of confinement will deter migration, the shooter opined that his use of violence would provide a needed “incentive” for Hispanics to return to their home countries. His violent actions were necessary, he wrote, to save America from destruction.

These messages are not lost on people like the El Paso shooter: “Your president shares your view that immigrants and racial minorities are a scourge on America. They are not deserving of the privileges of citizenship and must be denied political power at all costs. They are animals anyway, so the use of violence is permissible.”

more: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... sm-el-paso

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Beloved president arrives in El Paso, so that shooting victims can meet the great man. The shootings were caused by video games, not by beloved Trump allowing crazy people to have guns again.

[L'Emmerdeur]

It was reported that he still owes the city nearly $500,000 for a rally he held there about 6 months ago.

[Scot Dutchy]

Just put it on the list.

[Brian Peacock]

Trump is just commodifying the death and grief that he has curated.

[Brian Peacock]

-- It's nothing personal. Just business.

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[Brian Peacock]

#FAKENEWS

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Literally.