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WASHINGTON (AP) — The suburbs wouldn't be the suburbs anymore, the economy would sink into its worst depression ever and police departments would cease to exist. Even America's older adults would be left to figure out how to get by without heat, air conditioning or electricity.

This is the apocalyptic version of American life that President Donald Trump argues would be the dire consequence of turning over the White House to Democrat Joe Biden.

"He’ll bury you in regulations, dismantle your police departments, dissolve our borders, confiscate your guns, terminate religious liberty, destroy your suburbs,” Trump said in one of many over-the-top pronouncements about Biden in the campaign's final weeks. Trump typically makes his warning about the fate of suburbia as he showcases his own decision to end federal regulations that govern the placement of low-incoming housing in the suburbs.

“This election is a choice between a TRUMP RECOVERY or a BIDEN DEPRESSION," the president tweeted, echoing what he tells supporters at rallies. "It’s a choice between a TRUMP BOOM or a BIDEN LOCKDOWN. It’s a choice between our plan to Kill the virus – or Biden’s plan to kill the American Dream!”

Trump has criticized Biden for saying he'd follow the scientists, and the president claims the Democrat would shut the country down. In fact, Biden hasn’t said whether he’d endorse large-scale shutdowns of the nation’s economy, if things get drastically worse, like much of the country did in March.

“If you vote for Biden, it means no kids in school, no graduations, no weddings, no Thanksgiving, no Christmas and no Fourth of July together," Trump said at a rally Wednesday in Goodyear, Arizona. “Other than that, you have a wonderful life.”



I can remember all the GOP dire warnings when Obama was elected...so I ask you my Socialist Muslim brothers, shall we go to the shooting range today...oh wait, we can't, we don't have guns anymore. The last sentence is life under Donald...so what will change?

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Donald Trump Jr. claims U.S. COVID deaths are 'almost nothing' on day over 1,000 people die  < LINK

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Donald's latest endorser, right after Jack's

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President Trump has a new “greatest ever” to brag about, in the final days of the 2020 election. But his performance on economic growth is still the worst of any president during the last 50 years.

Third-quarter GDP grew by 33.1% on an annualized basis—the biggest jump in economic growth on record. “GDP number just announced,” Trump tweeted on Oct. 29. “Biggest and Best in the History of our Country. So glad this great GDP number came out before November 3rd.”

Annualized growth is a measure of one quarter’s performance if the economy had grown at the same pace all year. On a quarter-to-quarter basis, GDP grew by a much smaller 7.4% in the third quarter. These numbers are out of whack because of the business shutdowns triggered by the coronavirus pandemic, beginning in March. First-quarter GDP growth fell, then second-quarter growth plummeted. The huge jump in third-quarter growth makes up some but not all of the lost economic activity from earlier in the year. The U.S. economy remains in a hole, however.

Yahoo Finance has been tracking the Trump economy compared with six prior presidents, going back to Jimmy Carter in the 1970s. Even with the sharp third-quarter improvement, Trump still has the worst performance on real GDP growth, adjusted for inflation, of any of the seven presidents. We use data provided by Moody’s Analytics to measure the Trump economy on six metrics, compared with the economy under six prior presidents at the same point in their first term. We adjust GDP for population growth, to get an apples-to-apples comparison. For GDP, we use an index for each president that begins at 100 at the start of their term, with the latest index number representing a percentage increase or decrease compared with 100. Here’s where Trump stands:

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Leaked Trump Admin Document Describes Billie Eilish as 'Destroying Our Country and Everything We Care About'


A leading Trump administration official reportedly tainted a $250 million advertising contract originally intended to "defeat despair and inspire hope" amid the pandemic by, among other sadly unsurprising things, excluding public figures they believed were not aligned with Trump or his widely panned policy attempts.



A peculiar amount of ire, per the Washington Post, was reserved for Grammy winner Billie Eilish. A document detailing the administration's problems with an assortment of "at least" 274 artists and celebrities who were being considered for the public health campaign pointed out that Eilish is, in fact, "not a Trump supporter." Furthermore, in the words of the document, the Trump team is convinced the 18-year-old megastar is "destroying our country and everything we care about."



Top-ranking Democrats recently penned a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar stating that documents from the campaign showed HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Michael Caputo trying to use the taxpayer-funded effort as a way of helping the president and failed steak salesman's image.

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Just smh, carry on..........




A group of protesters gathered in front of Attorney General William Barr's McLean, Virginia home on Saturday evening where they called for Barr to "lock up" his Democratic opponent Joe Biden.

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How low will Donald go???



It's an awkward moment when a presidential candidate greets the audience at a rally and names the wrong state.

Fortunately for Democratic nominee Joe Biden, that didn't happen to him this week, despite a widely shared video that appears to show him saying “Hello, Minnesota” to a crowd in Florida.

It turns out he was, indeed, in Minnesota. The video that was shared had been altered to change the text on a sign and the podium to refer to Tampa, Florida, instead of Minnesota.

What you need to know about this edited video and the falsehoods spreading around it:

CLAIM: Video shows Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden mistakenly saying “Hello, Minnesota” at a campaign event in Tampa, Florida.

AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. The sign behind Biden in this video has been edited to add the words “Tampa, Florida” and remove the words “TEXT MN to 30330.” The podium has also been edited to add “FL” instead of “MN.” Original video from this event confirms that Biden was in Minnesota and addressed the correct state in his greeting.

THE FACTS: An altered video circulating widely on social media appears to show Biden making a cringeworthy mistake: addressing Minnesotans during a campaign stop across the country in Tampa, Florida.

“Hello, Minnesota!” Biden says after taking the stage. Behind him, a sign appears to read, “Tampa, Florida” and “Battle for the Soul of the Nation.”

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WASHINGTON — Born amid made-up crowd size claims and “alternative facts,” the Trump presidency has been a factory of falsehood from the start, churning out distortions, conspiracy theories and brazen lies at an assembly-line pace that has challenged fact-checkers and defied historical analogy.



But now, with the election two days away, the consequences of four years of fabulism are coming into focus as President Donald Trump argues that the vote itself is inherently “rigged,” tearing at the credibility of the system. Should the contest go into extra innings through legal challenges after Tuesday, it may leave a public with little faith in the outcome — and in its own democracy.

[Make America hate again 2020]

Was going to put this in humour, but there's so much truth in it, I had to post it in news. (Only bit I didn't agree with was "millions being better off economically under trump than Obama...")

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Nov 2, 2020 19:24:18 GMT Make America hate again 2020 said:

(Only bit I didn't agree with was "millions being better off economically under trump than Obama")

to be fair, the 1% are, indeed, better off. 1% of the US Population is about 3.5 million people, so this claim is factually correct.

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He said millions of people "being able to put food on the table," I don't think he was talking about the 1%ers...

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President Trump's top campaign strategist, Jason Miller, has been paid tens of thousands of dollars a month through a third-party campaign vendor rather than taking a salary from the campaign, obscuring the flow of money and apparently concealing how much he makes — an arrangement campaign finance experts say is illegal.



Miller, a 2016 senior adviser who joined the re-election campaign in early June, appears to have been paid as recently as July by Citizens of the American Republic (COAR), a nonprofit founded by Steve Bannon which is currently part of a federal fraud and money laundering investigation into the former Trump campaign chief, as a vehicle used to fabricate invoices in furtherance of that scheme. (Salon first reported that COAR had paid Miller $20,000 a month.)



Miller also appears to have taken monthly payments of several thousand dollars from a firm co-founded by two Trump officials — one of them being Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien. Salon was first to report that the campaign does not report any salary payments to Stepien, either.



The question of the campaign payments, and Miller's mysterious and varying monthly income, is important not only for reasons of public transparency, but for determining how much Miller, who is married, should pay for child support in a contentious custody case with a 2016 Trump campaign adviser which has dragged out for years in Florida family court.

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His advisers are being sure to deliver only favorable polls to Trump, the Times reports, with the lower numbers being filtered out. Trump did receive some pushback when he suggested trying to win in solidly blue states like New Mexico, but not from White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows; the Times reports he responded to the idea with "chipper enthusiasm."

Trump hasn't had a strong closing message, and has been straying from his prepared remarks; on Saturday, he was set to deliver a serious address to a crowd in Pennsylvania, but in the middle of it he began talking about the size of Biden's sunglasses. While his aides have cut him slack, some Republican lawmakers are surprised by Trump's actions on the campaign trail; one high-ranking GOP member of Congress told the Times he said to Meadows that if Trump is "trying to lose the election, I can't think of anything I'd tell him to do differently."

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That kind of low level illegal campaign funding happens all the time. Nothing ever done about it, smh...

To be fair, both "sides" do it but republicans (and tories in UK) do it worse. Which, given they have the richer backers as well, makes it all the more sickening...

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The question of the campaign payments, and Miller's mysterious and varying monthly income, is important not only for reasons of public transparency, but for determining how much Miller, who is married, should pay for child support in a contentious custody case with a 2016 Trump campaign adviser which has dragged out for years in Florida family court.

Miller, is one of many sad excuses for a human connected to the Trump campaign. It all starts with the "Dear Leader".