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The state Of The States. How Has America Got To Now?
Chakan:
--- Quote from: rafathegaffa83 on January 25, 2022, 02:41:00 pm ---No words. Pure lunacy.
Anthony Michael Kreis@AnthonyMKreis
Legislation has been introduced in the Georgia Senate with to ban any public entity from requiring *any* vaccination as a precondition for services or facility access, wiping out the preexisting standards
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And people wonder why the world is so fucked up.
Honestly.
jambutty:
Newsweek
Trump Tells Lou Dobbs There Isn't Enough Glue, Paper or Ink for His "Very Successful" Book
Justin Klawans - Yesterday 11:14 PM
Former President Donald Trump claimed during a podcast Wednesday with former Fox Business host Lou Dobbs that he was unable to get the necessary supplies to print his book due to supply chain issues.
While the former president never mentioned a book by name, Trump appeared to be referring to his new publication Our Journey Together. The book contains over 300 images of Trump's time as president, and the publisher called it his "first official book since leaving the White House."
"I just did a book, which is very successful, they sold 240,000 copies and we just ordered another 240,000, I guess, or more," Trump told Dobbs. "The publisher, the printer, who is one of the biggest in the country, I think he said he has eight plants, he said, well we have one problem—we can't get paper, we can't get ink."
"We can't get glue," Trump added. "We can't get leather for the covers. [The publisher] said, 'I've been doing this for 40 years, I've never had a problem getting anything.'"
Hardcover copies of Our Journey Together are listed on Amazon for $160 and on Trump's official bookselling website for $75. A signed copy of the book is also listed on the former president's website for $230.
However, no version of the book with a leather-bound cover appeared to exist online, as Trump claimed.
The books have not begun to ship, but the former president's website is advertising a February delivery for current orders.
The publisher that Trump is apparently referring to, Winning Team Publishing, was co-founded in 2021 by his son, Donald Trump Jr. It calls itself "the nation's premier conservative publishing house."
Our Journey Together is currently the only book listed for sale by the publishing house. It is unclear when more titles will become available.
Beyond speaking about his book, Trump talked to Dobbs about the state of the economy. He notably claimed that the economic supply chain was something that most people didn't know about before President Joe Biden took office.
"Well, nobody ever even heard the term supply chain," Trump told Dobbs. "The supply chain, it was automatic. It just was embedded. It was embedded in a free country, in a democracy. It was embedded in our country."
"We didn't sit around talking about the supply chain," Trump continued. "Now, that's all of a sudden, that's all, the two words people are using most because you can't get anything."
This is despite the fact that significant supply chain issues did affect the economy during the beginning of the pandemic, when Trump was still in office, according to Business Insider. This included reported issues with the production of medical supplies and equipment.
As the podcast went on, Trump spoke to Dobbs about the current issues with groceries in the United States.
"Big grocery stores, big chains, they have empty shelves. Sixty, 70 percent of their shelves are empty in some cases," Trump claimed. "In some cases more than that. They can't get food, they can't get clothing."
However, Geoff Freeman, the president and CEO of the Consumer Brands Association, told the Associated Press on January 11 that the rate of unavailable goods for grocers was around 15 percent. Under normal, pre-pandemic conditions, Freeman stated that that number was typically from 5 to 10 percent.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-tells-lou-dobbs-there-isn-t-enough-glue-paper-or-ink-for-his-very-successful-book/ar-AATbtMp?ocid=msedgntp
If his lips are moving, he's lying.
GreatEx:
I don't think the glue shortage is a supply chain issue
Jshooters:
--- Quote ---"The publisher, the printer, who is one of the biggest in the country, I think he said he has eight plants"
--- End quote ---
--- Quote ---The publisher that Trump is apparently referring to, Winning Team Publishing, was co-founded in 2021 by his son, Donald Trump Jr. It calls itself "the nation's premier conservative publishing house."
Our Journey Together is currently the only book listed for sale by the publishing house. It is unclear when more titles will become available.
--- End quote ---
jambutty:
Business Insider
Nikki Haley says Biden should 'step down and take Kamala with him' because the US looks 'weak' on foreign policy heading into the Beijing Olympics
jlahut@insider.com (Jake Lahut) - 1h ago
In a Fox News radio interview, Haley said Biden should "step down and take Kamala with him."
Haley also said she's worried the US will look "weak" on foreign policy at the Beijing Olympics.
Former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley in a Fox News Radio interview on Wednesday called on President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris to "step down."
"If Biden loved our country, he would step down and take Kamala with him because the foreign policy situation is beyond dangerous at this point," Haley said on the "Guy Benson Show."
If both Biden and Harris were to leave office, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi would become president.
Haley, a potential 2024 Republican presidential candidate who was appointed to her UN post by former President Donald Trump in 2017, presented her critique of Biden's foreign policy in the context of the upcoming Olympic Winter Games in Beijing.
"The reason I pushed so hard for a boycott of the Beijing Olympics is because if they get a pass and we get past these Olympics and we still look weak, they're going to do whatever they want because they can," Haley said in part, referring to the Chinese government.
Biden has called for a diplomatic boycott of the Olympics — meaning no US government officials or dignitaries will be in attendance — while still allowing the athletes to compete. Unlike Haley, Trump has not called for a boycott either.
Earlier in the interview, Haley ticked through a series of qualms she has with the Biden administration on the international stage.
"We're suffering with the fact that, with the fall of Afghanistan, I mean you've got anywhere from Putin, Xi, Kim Jong Un in North Korea to the Ayatollahs in Iran, they all get what an amazing opportunity this is," she said. "They know that they've never had a weak president like this before. They know they probably never will have another one again, so they are trying to get everything they can."
During his lone term in office, Trump spoke fondly about each of the Russian, Chinese and North Korean leaders Haley mentioned, part of a broader pattern experts have described as enabling and emboldening strongmen and dictators who want to hold onto their power for life — or be "president for life," in Trump's words.
Haley added that she doesn't think Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to invade Ukraine because it would be unpopular domestically, and that he is simply "trying to leverage."
While Haley has been the subject of 2024 speculation, she is one of several high-profile Republicans who have come out to say they won't challenge Trump if he runs again.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/winter-olympics/nikki-haley-says-biden-should-step-down-and-take-kamala-with-him-because-the-us-looks-weak-on-foreign-policy-heading-into-the-beijing-olympics/ar-AATcVSa?li=BBnb7Kz
Hopefully, this ridiculous public fantasy of hers should put paid to any Presidential aspirations she has.
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