Trump’s Taylor Hate Disgusts His Fans

I’m looking for substantiation but this was the Google answer to a question about when  Haitian immigrants started coming to Springfield. 

Haitians first started arriving around 2018 and chose Springfield because of job opportunities and affordable housing, Lucken Merzius, a Haitian immigrant living in the area, told PBS News. “I got a decent job when I was in Haiti, and then had to make a difficult decision to leave. It wasn’t easy,” he told the outlet.

now remind me, who was president in 2018 and oversaw US immigration then 🤔

Oh, and… also from SDN:

Congress created TPS in 1990, giving the executive branch authority to designate countries undergoing armed conflict, environmental disaster, or extraordinary and temporary conditions that prevented nationals from returning. It can only be offered to people already in the U.S. who don’t have criminal records.
There is no pathway to citizenship with TPS and immigrants can be deported once the period of time covered by the authorization ends.

What party was in the presidency in 1990 and a signed off on that policy?  In fairness, both houses of Congress in 1990 were controlled by Democrats. But wait, no pathway to citizenship? So no voting?

Not sure whether DF’s post potential assassination attempt fundraising sounds more like Mussolini or the Wizard of Oz.  (BYW. No one has ever been killed in a potential assassination attempt except the potential assassins).

Corey, not to put too fine a point on it, but reportedly shit tons of his former WH staff were involved in writing portions of it, the primary author briefed him on it during a plane ride and Dumbass endorsed it, he addressed Heritage Fdn., who funded it and thanked them, said he’d implement it as his policy platform if elected, and his FUCKING RUNNING MATE, JDouche  wrote the foreword for it.
 
BTW, not sure if i posted this after the debate, but it was at WaPo,

In their first and perhaps only presidential debate in the 2024 election, a defensive former president Donald Trump relied on many of his favorite falsehoods to combat attacks from Vice President Kamala Harris. Harris stretched the truth on occasion, but she was no match in the falsehood department against Trump.

Here’s a roundup of 55 claims that caught our interest, in the order in which they were made. (In some cases we have grouped similar Trump statements together.) As is our practice, we do not award Pinocchios when we do a roundup of facts in debates.
 

“Economists have said that that Trump sales tax would actually result, for middle-class families, in about $4,000 more a year.”
— Harris
This may be a high estimate. Trump suggested he wants to impose a 10 percent tax on every imported good entering the United States and a 60 percent tax on every imported good from China. The pro-trade Peterson Institute for International Economics has estimated that this would cost a typical U.S. household in the middle of the income distribution about $1,700 in after-tax income. That’s because tariffs are typically passed on to consumers by importers — a standard economic concept that Trump rejects.
But in one recent campaign rally, Trump mused that he would impose a 20 percent tariff. Peterson redid the numbers and estimated this would cost that typical household more than $2,600 a year.
Harris is relying on an estimate from the left-leaning Center for American Progress Action Fund, which calculates the cost would be $3,900.
But economist Kimberly Clausing, co-author of the Peterson study, says these studies are underestimates because they do not consider the increase in the price of goods that compete with imports. “We have every reason to think U.S. domestic prices would rise in those sectors that compete with imports,” and “that effect is very large,” she said in an email. “The true cost I’d guess is roughly twice as high as our number.”

“I have no sales tax. That’s an incorrect statement. She knows that we’re doing tariffs on other countries. Other countries are going to finally, after 75 years, pay us back for all that we’ve done for the world, and the tariff will be substantial in some cases.”
— Trump
Trump is flat wrong to claim that the entire tariff is paid by a foreign country. 
There is no controversy among economists, who agree that tariffs — essentially a tax on domestic consumption — are paid by importers, such as U.S. companies, which in turn pass on most or all of the costs to consumers or producers who may use imported materials in their products. As a matter of demand and supply elasticities, overseas producers will pay part of the tax if there are fewer goods sold to the United States. Domestic producers in effect get a subsidy because they can raise their prices to the level imposed on importers.
Through the end of his presidency, Trump-imposed tariffs garnered about $75 billion on products from China. So, ultimately, Americans footed the bill for Trump’s tariffs, not the Chinese. Moreover, the China tariff revenue was reduced by $28 billion in payments the government made to farmers who lost business because China stopped buying U.S. soybeans, hogs, cotton and other products in response.

That’s 2 of 55.  Feel free to read the others.  Never know when that kind of info might come in handy – maybe at a cocktail party? (Do people still have cocktail parties?)

One last one on Project 2025.  This is close to my understanding.

“What you’re going to hear tonight is a detailed and dangerous plan called Project 2025, that the former president intends on implementing if he were elected.”

— Harris

“I have nothing to do as you know, and as she knows better than anyone, I have nothing to do with Project 2025 that’s out there.”

— Trump

Project 2025 is not an official campaign document, and we’ve called out Democrats for sometimes falsely suggesting policies that are not in it, such as on Social Security and the  Mandate for Leadership,” a 922-page manifesto filled with detailed conservative proposals that is popularly labeled Project 2025. But there are definitely Trump connections.

A CNN review found that 140 people who worked in the Trump administration contributed to the report. In April, at an event for the Heritage Foundation, which produced the document, Trump praised Kevin Roberts, its president, and appeared to endorse Project 2025. “They’re going to lay the groundwork and detail plans for exactly what our movement will do and what your movement will do when the American people give us a colossal mandate to save America,” Trump said.

“[N]ot a campaign document” but his people drafted it, he knew about  it and endorsed it and said it is “…plans for exactly what our movement will do and what your movement will do when the American people give us a colossal mandate to save America.”  No reading between the lines necessary.

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Bink, close to half the country believes whatever racist non-sequitur blurted out by the flailing simpleton amid an embarrassing debate performance, all based on disinformation, says. It is odd that it takes a week to fact check what was denied at all levels of OH government (well, except their Senators and Reps) and debunked in the next 2 days.  Adding the geese to the dogs and cats was genius – in that inimitable flailing simpleton way JDouche and Dumbass have.

Thanks – now if he only gets clicks or whatever produces some revenue (very little I expect) he’ll be one step further up the “I want my career to be music” ladder.

Nah, I didn’t take it that way anyhow.  It was the pop-political media description I was gigging on.  Hell, I question the use of the term assassination, but I think I’d lose that one.

MikeyJ – clueless git.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said he and his wife spent “a few hours” with Trump at Mar-a-Lago after the shooting. Johnson wrote on social media that he and his wife “are thanking God for protecting [Trump] today — once again,” and said, “No leader in American history has endured more attacks and remained so strong and resilient. He is unstoppable.”

Sounds almost like a challenge to me…Please – one nutjob’s bullet nicked his ear (Not leaving a scar, and that is almost beyond comprehension) and another nutjob didn’t get a shot off.  And somehow the name Gerry Ford comes to mind. Oh, and leader?  As Bink noted, words matter.

Well, this evening Mrs. P and I went out to celebrate our 28th. Had a wonderful time. Sat next to 4 old friends and got the rare opportunity to casually shoot the shit with folks we know.