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… Because he had a $10 million private fundraiser scheduled at the home of “the CEO of Energy Transfer Partners, one of the nation’s largest pipeline companies” — and he certainly wasn’t gonna pay for the flight down there himself.

So far so anodyne, according to the Dallas News:

At a discussion in Dallas on race and policing, President Donald Trump recommitted himself Thursday to a policy that police should “dominate the streets,” a stance that has alarmed minority advocates fighting to tamp down the use of force after a police killing in Minneapolis.

The White House took heat for excluding the county’s three top law enforcement officials, who are all black, from an event that at times felt much like a campaign rally, albeit far smaller than usual for Trump…

The president drew cheers time and again from hundreds of supporters at Gateway Church as he forcefully rejected complaints about widespread police brutality and mocked “radical efforts to defund, dismantle and disband the police.”

“You always have a bad apple. No matter where you go you have bad apples, and there are not too many of them … in the police department,” he said. “What happens late at night when you make that call to 911 and there’s nobody there? What do you? What are you doing, whether you’re white or black or anybody else? … There is no opportunity without safety.”…

Hundreds of guests attended the event at Gateway Church’s campus in North Dallas, in one of the city’s more affluent areas.

Gateway is a conservative evangelical megachurch, one of the nation’s largest, with half a dozen campuses in the area and a mostly white congregation. A senior White House official rejected the suggestion that it was a strange choice for a conversation on “disparities” and “underserved communities.”

“Everyone cares about these communities. And this is about bringing people together from all walks,” the official said.

Outside the church, police barricades separated several hundred Black Lives Matter supporters from a few dozen Trump supporters. Shouts and vitriolic insults crossed the divide in both directions…

The (more than usually) scary part was the tangle of words emerging from the Squatter-in-Chief:

If this isn’t senile dementia, it’ll do until a more granular explanation emerges…

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  1. 1.

    The Moar You Know

    He looks fucking awful.  Way worse than usual.  I’m not talking about what he’s saying, but rather his physical appearance.  He looks ill.

    Hamberders may save this country from a whole lot of bullshit in the end.

  2. 2.

    Another Scott

    re: It’s just like coronavirus…

    As USA hits 2M infected and 116K dead from COVID 105 days after @realDonaldTrump said this we'd see zero cases soon, it's important to note social distancing, masks & shutdowns worked and avoided a public health crisis in the states that followed science https://t.co/Mu7XLMUnVB

    — Senator Scott Surovell (@ssurovell) June 12, 2020

    Stay safe. Eyes on the prizes.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  3. 3.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    “What happens late at night when you make that call to 911 and there’s nobody there? What do you? What are you doing, whether you’re white or black or anybody else? … There is no opportunity without safety.”…

    Why, I thought patriotic gun owners didn’t need the cops, only their prostatic penises?

  6. 6.

    dmsilev

    Ok, let’s do this

    Sometimes you’ll see a building that costs less money than another building that costs more because the one that built the one that costs more, this one looks better. The one that’s cheaper looks better. They say how much more did you spend for that building.

    Two buildings are built, at different costs. So far, so good. Somewhat of a tautology, but we’ll allow it.
    Second part of the first sentence, I think he was trying to say that expensive and crappy builders, like one DJT, spend more money to get poorer-looking results.. This appears to be consistent with the second sentence. Third sentence, he is denigrating the business sense of anyone dumb enough to hire someone like himself to build something, and again here we must acknowledge the essential truth.

    All in all, it’s about 3/4s coherent, which is actually well above average for Trump.

  7. 7.

    NotMax

    “We would have called to invite them but it was the day off of the staffer who speaks jive.”

    //

  8. 8.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @dmsilev:

    Thanks for that translation, otherwise I couldn’t understand what he was saying it was so tortured

  12. 12.

    Ken

    The one that cost less did so because the builder imported Polish non-union laborers, sourced the steel from foreign mills, reneged on the agreement to preserve the historic facade of the building, and didn’t pay the subcontractors.

  13. 13.

    Aleta

    From the twitter account of the “Managing Director at Tr International Hotel Washington, D.C.”

    The Gummy Bear…Introducing you to one of many SAFE and creative snack/cocktail options at Benjamin Terrace…

    Congratulations to my Food & Beverage team for reinventing our offering in this crazy time.

    @Fahrenthold describes the photo of their ‘offering’ as “a cocktail of Red Bull, airplane bottles of vodka, and gummy bears. The selling point is it’s safe (I think b/c It all comes pre-sealed)”

    A few of the retorts

    Also available at any 7-11 in America.

    Congrats on making sure the underage girls in your bar have their faves on hand

    Reminds me of Spring Break 2003. Super classy.

    Cool. So your hotel serves drinks that look like a 22 year old hit the corner store at 2am. You guys are classy AF.

    This is the worst drink I’ve ever seen and I would have drank vodka out of a puddle at one point

  16. 16.

    Jackie

    O/T BREAKING NEWS: Trump postpones Tulsa rally to next day – Sat 6/20. Says he’s doing it in respect to Juneteenth.

    Raw Story reporting.

  18. 18.

    Misterpuff

    @dmsilev: Slightly different interpretation: Some build solid buildings for a cost but someone else (POTUS) can build more cheaply but put a flashy façade on it and people will think its costs more (will pay more). This is his mindset: A sucker is born every minute. And how we sell gilted shitboxes is how we can sell policy. Put some superficial change in the policy, spray paint with glitter, and the rubes will suck it up.

     

    Our president is P.T.Barnum.

  19. 19.

    Ken

    @Jackie: Sure he respects Juneteenth. My money’s on terrible early registration numbers, and hoping that more people will be able to come on Saturday.

    If the rally site ends up three-quarters empty, Trump will go nuts and the attendees will be a little safer – a nice win-win for everyone except Trump’s handlers.

  20. 20.

    Misterpuff

    @Ken: But, but, but POTUS said he’s already gotten 200 thousand requests from his minions.

     

    Those poor Oklahomans.

  23. 23.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):

    I’m legitimately shocked he hasn’t died by now, considering COVID-19 or how he eats 

    I wouldn’t be surprised if we found out he had a massive coronary but is out-Wilmering Wilmer.

  24. 24.

    NotMax

    @Ken

    O-klahoma, where COVID comes sweepin’ down the plain
    And the MAGA hordes, who show up indoors
    Breathe it in without a mask to strain

  27. 27.

    joel hanes

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):

    I’m legitimately shocked he hasn’t died by now

    And how do we know he hasn’t?

    An animatronic double would seem more human; a re-animated Trump could hardly be more bizarre than the genuine article.

  28. 28.

    TS (the original)

    @Ken:

    My money is with your money. Even the strongest trump supporters don’t want to be in a room with 10 000 other trump supporters – guess they are beginning to believe the science rather than the man.

  29. 29.

    Aleta

    The Trump administration on Friday finalized a regulation that will erase protections for transgender patients against discrimination by doctors, hospitals and health insurance companies, a move announced on the four-year anniversary of the massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando and in the middle of Pride Month.

    The rule… is part of a broad Trump administration effort across multiple areas of policy — including education, housing, and employment, as well as health care — to narrow the legal definition of sex discrimination so that it does not include protections for transgender people.
    …
    Roger Severino(is) the director of the Office for Civil Rights at the Department of Health and Human Services, the unit responsible for the rule.
    …
    Mr. Severino defended the timing of the rule’s release during Pride Month and on the Pulse massacre anniversary, saying it was “purely coincidental.”

    “It’s really, really horrendous to not only gut nondiscrimination protections, but to gut nondiscrimination protections in the middle of a pandemic,” said Rodrigo Heng-Lehtinen, the deputy executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality. “This rule opens a door for a medical provider to turn someone away for a Covid-19 test just because they happen to be transgender.”

    …
    Mr. Severino, who spent seven years in civil-rights enforcement at the Justice Department and once oversaw the DeVos Center for Religion and Civil Society at the Heritage Foundation, said that the Trump administration would defend the decision in court.

    Mr. Severino has extensive experience litigating religious liberty cases. His current office is responsible for investigating discriminatory violations in health care.

    Katie M. Keith, who teaches health law at Georgetown University and has closely tracked this area of civil rights law, said the rule finalized Friday needed to be seen as part of a broad pattern of regulatory changes that eliminate civil rights protections for transgender people and establishes a definition of sex as being biologically determined at birth.   
That idea “is what they are pushing forward on all of these different policy angles across different agencies,” she said.

    Rolling back the health care rule has been a cause for social conservatives since its implementation, including Mr. Severino, who criticized it while at the Heritage Foundation.

    …  Another rule issued by Mr. Severino’s office last year would provide additional “conscience” protections for health care workers with religious or moral objections to certain types of care. That rule has been voided by several federal courts.

    The rule also reverses other provisions of the original Obama-administration interpretation of the statute. It eliminates anti-discrimination protections for patients with a history of pregnancy termination. And it rolls back requirements that providers and insurers must routinely notify patients about the availability of foreign language translations of important documents.   (NYT)

    Just the beginning of how far they want to go in rolling back civil rights.

  30. 30.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Aleta:

    Mr. Severino defended the timing of the rule’s release during Pride Month and on the Pulse massacre anniversary, saying it was “purely coincidental.”

    These fucknuts need to start picking Powerball numbers for us with all of the “purely coincidental” awful shit done at the worst times.

    ETA – Fuck these people.

  33. 33.

    Aleta

    @Emma from FL:  I know, right?  It looks like their idea of “Safe” is you opening the can of red bull and the airplane bottle of vodka and pouring them together by yourself, while unpackaging  the gummy bears  to shake into your mouth.  For what, $25-30 or so?

    No mask need mar the bartender though.  No bartender needed either tbh.

  37. 37.

    cain

    @The Moar You Know:

    Which is a perfect reason to defund the police – after all, if they aren’t there to protect anyone – then we might as well hire some other folks to do it whose mission is precisely that. They dont’ even have to carry a gun.

    Although, I think they should since this populace is armed and are bat shit crazy.

  38. 38.

    lumpkin

    He either doesn’t understand the saying about bad apples or doesn’t know the rest of it. Dumbass.

  41. 41.

    NotMax

    So during the commencement blather will he announce the renaming of West Point to Jefferson Davis Academy?

  42. 42.

    cain

    @NotMax:

    O-klahoma, where COVID comes sweepin’ down the plain
    And the MAGA hordes, who show up indoors
    Breathe it in without a mask to strain

    Your doing fine, O-klahoma, Oklahoma, OK!

    “When I take you out in the surrey, you’ll get covid, in a hurry

    When I take you out in the surrey, without a mask, oh crap!”

    ETA:

    “Nosy folks who don’t want the covid, yell at us because we are stupid, their eyes, they pop!”

  45. 45.

    frosty

    @TS (the original): I don’t think so. I’m seeing pix of FB friends at reopened bars, no masks, close together, and they aren’t Trump people. Based on this I don’t think his supporters would give COVID a second thought.

  49. 49.

    Martin

    @Jackie: Respecting Juneteenth would have involved knowing it was Juneteenth and not scheduling a rally that day.

    Damage control isn’t respect.

  52. 52.

    lgerard

    @Viva BrisVegas:

    So long as he can stay out of jail, Parscale is laughing all the way to the bank.

    You know trump ts going to sue him after he loses in November, right?

  53. 53.

    Sister Golden Bear

    @Aleta:

    Just the beginning of how far they want to go in rolling back civil rights.

    We’ll find out soon enough. There’s impending SCOTUS rulings about whether job discrimination against LGBTQ people is legal.

    I’m dreading it.

    FYI, the references to “natural sex” is part of a larger effort to define sex as the genitals you were assigned at before, which can never be changed. Meaning I’d be listed as male, instead of the woman I am today. Which besides intentionally outing trans people, leads to things like trans women being held in men’s prisons. (Unfortunately, this happens today because not all trans people can afford to do a legal name.)

  55. 55.

    TS (the original)

    @frosty:

    They’re in a bar with a dozen friends – not in an an enormous room with 10,000 strangers. i think there is a difference.

    I also still believe that half the people at his rallies were bussed in and/or the same people followed him around the country. It was also novel & new – and probably boring.

    Maybe I’m wrong – but for sure he never has & never will, get anything like the crowds at an Obama rally in 2008. Obama got fewer the second time around & so will trump.

  58. 58.

    Barbara

    @Aleta: Severino is a true zealot. The conscience rules did not permit health care employers to even ask about potential objections, and when the judge queried about impromptu objections in life and death circumstances the gov attorney said that employers should double and triple staff for that possibility. Fucking nut job.

  59. 59.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    Trump is dealing with the race issue the same way he is dealing with the virus; created some bubble fantasy world were it’s not happening he can retreat into.

  60. 60.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @Ken: @Jackie: Sure he respects Juneteenth. My money’s on terrible early registration numbers, and hoping that more people will be able to come on Saturday.

    Or just Politically Right double speak for they are all starting to worry about the virus again.

    Do note in the article about Trump’s Round Table that there were only a handful of pro-Trump supporters, in a location that was clearly selected for high Trump support.

  62. 62.

    marklar

    @NotMax: Love your version.  In the rewrite, include Karen, and her song “I’m just a Ma-Gal who cain’t say I know anything.

    The finale should be the Lincoln Projects “Oh what a beautiful Mourning in a America.”

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