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sir1963: DarthKermit:The ONLY emotion Trump understands is "lust", the rest are just word salad to him.
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The New York Times - Trump Condemns White Supremacy but Doesn’t Propose Gun Laws After Shootings
Aug. 5, 2019
WASHINGTON — President Trump forcefully denounced white supremacy in the wake of twin mass shootings over the weekend, citing the threat of “racist hate” with no acknowledgment that his own anti-immigrant rhetoric has become part of a national debate.
“In one voice our nation must condemn racism, bigotry and white supremacy,” Mr. Trump said at the White House. “These sinister ideologies must be defeated.”
But he stopped well short of endorsing the kind of broad gun control measures that activists and Democrats have sought for years, instead falling back on longtime Republican remedies, such as stronger action to address mental illness, violence in the media and violent video games.
He warned of “the perils of the internet and social media,” but offered no recognition of his own use of those platforms to promote his brand of divisive politics. ...
He took no responsibility for the atmosphere of division, nor did he recognize his own reluctance to warn of the rise of white nationalism until now. ...
“Mental illness and hatred pulls the trigger, not the gun,” Mr. Trump said.
Calling mass shooters “mentally ill monsters,” he also said he was directing the Department of Justice to propose legislation calling for the death penalty for “those who commit hate crimes and mass murders.”
From the "manifesto" of the El Paso gunman, page 4, paragraph 3 :
My death is likely inevitable.
If I’m not killed by the police, then I’ll probably be gunned down by one of the invaders.
Capture in this case if far worse than dying during the shooting because I’ll get the death penalty anyway.
Worse still is that I would live knowing that my family despises me.
This is why I’m not going to surrender even if I run out of ammo. ...
He did surrender, uninjured - before he ran out of ammo ...
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The Washington Post - In wake of El Paso shooting, Obama calls on country to reject words ‘of any of our leaders’ that feed fear and hatred
August 5 at 4:17 PM
Former president Barack Obama called on the country Monday to reject words “coming out of the mouths of any of our leaders” that feed fear and hatred and normalize racist sentiments, a tacit rebuke of President Trump in the wake of the Texas and Ohio shootings. ...
Obama did not mention Trump by name in his statement, although he sharply criticized the type of inflammatory rhetoric about immigrants and ethnic minorities that has become a staple of Trump’s reelection campaign. ...
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"Made in China"
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"Made in China"
I think the Chinese just played Trump perfectly.
They've now acted to stabilise the Yuan. They just sent a warning shot to Trump, wiped some hundreds of billions out of US markets. I expect they'll do it again too - unless Trump pulls his head in and comes to the negotiating table in good faith. Maybe not in the same way (allowing the yuan to drop) - they have other options.
Bizarrely, Trump's reaction was to accuse them of political interference of central bank action, true probably because that's what they do, but exactly what he's trying to do in the US - undermining the US federal reserve's independence by repeatedly threatening them and tweeting like a lunatic.
American investors and business folks in denial of the harm that China could inflict are in la la land. Yes - the actions they could take would hurt Chinese consumers and investors too, but as a one-party totalitarian regime, they don't have to try to win a popularity contest with the Chinese population.
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The New York Times - How the Trump Campaign Used Facebook Ads to Amplify His ‘Invasion’ Claim
Aug. 5, 2019
WASHINGTON — President Trump’s re-election campaign has harnessed Facebook advertising to push the idea of an “invasion” at the southern border, amplifying the fear-inducing language about immigrants that he has also voiced at campaign rallies and on Twitter.
Since January, Mr. Trump’s re-election campaign has posted more than 2,000 ads on Facebook that include the word “invasion” - part of a barrage of advertising focused on immigration, a dominant theme of his re-election messaging. ...
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