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Republican South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott predicted Thursday that President Trump will get at least 12% of the black vote in 2020, a 50% increase from the 8% he got in 2016.
"And that is Game over," he said.
"Think about a top-tier Democratic candidate that talks about harassing African-American males through stop-and-frisk," Scott said, referring to Mike Bloomberg when he was mayor of New York City. "Compare that against President Trump’s criminal justice reform packages that are making the justice system more fair for African-Americans disproportionally than it has been in a long time."
"President Trump is not just talking a good game, he is walking a good game."
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In Long Island City, it’s the scar that won’t heal. Almost two years after Amazon pulled out from a proposal to build a massive headquarters along the Queens waterfront, the site is a v…
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A mob of Portland Black Lives Matter protesters forced a white man to crash his truck, then punched and kicked him unconscious, disturbing footage shows. A series of clips on social media shows the…
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Mario Lopez dared to post a conservative tweet last night, and he's receiving tons of backlash for it from the liberal mob.
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A collection of some of Milton Friedman and his best moments. From healthcare to welfare. Ben Shapiro CRUSHES Black Lives Matter one by one https://www.youtu...
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President Trump’s signature tax overhaul delivered savings to Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg and his new husband compared with what they would have paid under previous rates, a review of the couple’s 2018 return shows.
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Michigan’s Republican leaders in its state legislature stripped Rep. Gary Eisen of his committee assignments after he inferred that violence could erupt during Monday’s Electoral College vote.
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The latest report by Syndicated Analytics titled “Unsaturated Polyester Resin Production Cost Analysis: Capital Investment, Manufacturing Process, Raw
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Conservative Latinos push back on the liberal talking point that Florida Republicans gained Latino support thanks to Spanish language "disinformation."
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In the 1870s, when Boss Tweed’s Tammany Hall controlled New York City, and in the 1950s and 1960s, when Chicago’s Democratic machine was especially rampant, there was a phenomenon that can be called immunity through profusion: Fresh scandals arrived with metronomic regularity, so there was no time to concentrate on any of them. The public, bewildered by blitzkriegs of bad behavior, was enervated.
What Winston Churchill said about an adversary — “He spoke without a note and almost without a point” — can be said of Donald Trump, but this might be unfair to him. His speeches are, of course, syntactical train wrecks, but there might be method to his madness. He rarely finishes a sentence (“Believe me!” does not count), but perhaps he is not the scatterbrain he has so successfully contrived to appear. Maybe he actually is a sly rascal, cunningly in pursuit of immunity through profusion.
He seems to understand that if you produce a steady stream of sufficiently stupefying statements, there will be no time to dwell on any one of them, and the net effect on the public will be numbness and ennui. So, for example, while the nation has been considering his interesting decision to try to expand his appeal by attacking Gold Star parents, little attention has been paid to this: Vladimir Putin’s occupation of the Crimea has escaped Trump’s notice.
It is, surely, somewhat noteworthy that someone aspiring to be America’s commander-in-chief has somehow not noticed the fact that for two years now a sovereign European nation has been dismembered. But a thoroughly jaded American public, bemused by the depths of Trump’s shallowness, might have missed the following from Trump’s appearance last Sunday on ABC’s This Week.
When host George Stephanopoulos asked, “Why did you soften the GOP platform on Ukraine?” — removing the call for providing lethal weapons for Ukraine to defend itself — Trump said: “[Putin's] not going into Ukraine, Okay? Just so you understand. He’s not going to go into Ukraine, all right? You can mark it down and you can put it down, you can take it anywhere you want.”
Stephanopoulos: “Well, he’s already there, isn’t he?”
Trump: “Okay, well, he’s there in a certain way, but I’m not there yet. You have [President] Obama there. And frankly, that whole part of the world is a mess under Obama, with all the strength that you’re talking about and all of the power of NATO and all of this, in the meantime, he’s going where — he takes — takes Crimea, he’s sort of — I mean . . . ”
Maybe Trump actually is a sly rascal, cunningly in pursuit of immunity through profusion.
What Trump, in that word salad, calls the “certain way” that Putin is in Crimea is called annexation, enforced by the Russian army. But Trump — channeling his inner Woodrow Wilson and his principle of ethnic self-determination — says what has happened to Crimea is sort of democratic because “from what I’ve heard” the people of Crimea “would rather be with Russia than where they were.”
Before the interview ended, Trump expressed his displeasure with the schedule for presidential debates, two of which are on nights with nationally televised NFL games. (There are such games three nights each autumn week.) “I got a letter from the NFL,” Trump claimed, “saying this is ridiculous.” The NFL says it has sent no such letter. But before this Trump fib/figment of his imagination/hallucination can be properly savored, it will be washed away by a riptide of others. Immunity through profusion.
The nation, however, is not immune to the lasting damage that is being done to it by Trump’s success in normalizing post-factual politics. It is being poisoned by the injection into its bloodstream of the cynicism required of those Republicans who persist in pretending that although Trump lies constantly and knows nothing, these blemishes do not disqualify him from being president.
#related#As when, last week, Mike Pence reproved Barack Obama for deploring, obviously with Trump in mind, “homegrown demagogues.” Pence, doing his well-practiced imitation of a country vicar saddened by the discovery of sin in his parish, said with sorrowful solemnity: “I don’t think name calling has any place in public life.” As in “Lyin’ Ted” Cruz and “Little Marco” Rubio and “Crooked Hillary” Clinton?
Pence is just the most recent example of how the rubble of ruined reputations will become deeper before November 8. It has been well said that “sooner or later, we all sit down to a banquet of consequences.” The Republican party’s multi-course banquet has begun.
— George Will is a Pulitzer Prize–winning syndicated columnist. © 2016 The Washington Post.
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Allowing three states to impose an amendment to the Constitution that even proponents admitted died in 1982 is a moral fraud and a constitutional farce.
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President Trump continued to add to his tally of successful judicial appointments Tuesday with the confirmation of Thomas Kirsch II as a judge on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals.
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The hectic lifestyles and inflating disposable incomes of consumers are primarily driving the potato chips market.
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President Joe Biden's administration has stopped accepting applications for the student loan relief program. "Courts have issued orders ...
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The annual conservative gathering, held just outside the Washington Beltway, will feature speeches from President Trump and a host of conservative figures, all to “make the case against socialism,” CPAC hosts said.
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RURAL TEXAS - Elon Musk is at it again, and this time he's created a vehicle that runs exclusively on liberal tears. The Tesla Trans-400 is set to become the most energy-efficient vehicle the world has ever seen. Running on pure, 100 percent vegan-fed tears, Tesla’s newest creation is rumored to drive for over 6,000 miles between fill-ups.&n ...
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Kendall Tietz University professor Allyn Walker wrote a book about people who are attracted to minors, a group he believes is misunderstood and should be
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by Harold Hutchison MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell claimed that Maricopa County, Arizona’s vote-counting procedures were “some of the best in the country”
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Bernie Sanders, whose constant carping about the rich gained him millions of followers around the country who bought into Sanders’ image as the personification of selflessness, has purchased a $600,000 summer home on the Champlain Islands.
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Tiger Woods Refused to Bash Trump and Urged 'Respect' for Office of Presidency — ESPN Host Slams Him
"No. Tiger Woods … is being slick."
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One mom is fighting back on behalf of her 11-year-old daughter.
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Presiding over a case in the UK's Court of Appeal, Lord Justice Bean and Mr Justice Warby said: 'Freedom only to speak inoffensively is not worth having.'
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On Friday Dr. Fauci told The New York Times podcast that the vaccines did not work as advertised and that Americans are in danger due to their waning immunity. As a solution to this problem Dr. Fauci is of course promoting more shots. When will this end? Yahoo.com reported: On Nov. 12, White House COVID […]