Month: June 2020

I’ve never done a button lock before. Some people add a leaf or coil spring in order to make an automatic knife.
Having a third hand would make these much easier to make.

Desert Ironwood finished nicely with some sanding sealer and Teak Oil.

President Trump, whose plans to campaign on a booming economy were ruined by the coronavirus, traveled Tuesday to the southern edge of Arizona to highlight completion of “more than 200 miles of powerful border wall” with Mexico.

He didn’t mention the fine print.

Nearly all 216 miles built since Trump took office replaced outdated or dilapidated fencing. Only about “three miles of new border wall system [have been] constructed in locations where no barriers previously existed,” according to Homeland Security’s June 19 status report on the wall.

The visit to Yuma, and later to Phoenix, marked Trump’s first public appearance since his poorly attended rally Saturday night in Tulsa, Okla., which has sparked speculation by some Republicans that Trump’s campaign needed major retooling.

The campaign had predicted a massive overflow crowd for his first public rally in more than three months, but the indoor arena in Tulsa was two-thirds empty, and Trump was humiliated, according to aides.

He also was angry that his aides had confirmed to the press before the event that six Trump campaign staffers involved in organizing the rally tested positive for COVID-19. (The total is now eight.)

Trump’s scripted attempts to paint a negative portrait of Biden were lost in a torrent of grievances and invective toward the media, China and the coronavirus, not to mention a bizarre reenactment of his tentative walk down a ramp after a commencement address days earlier.

“The most important thing in a campaign is the message. And the most powerful message he needs to develop is what’s wrong with Joe Biden,” said Ari Fleischer, who was White House press secretary under President George W. Bush. “If this election is about the incumbent, chances are Donald Trump will lose.”

On Tuesday, Arizona tallied the most COVID-19 cases of any day yet — 3,591 — and its hospitalization rate set a record for an eighth straight day, casting a heavy shadow on the president’s visit, especially his second event, a speech sponsored by a conservative advocacy group at a Phoenix church.

Trump has sidelined the White House coronavirus task force in recent weeks and spoken of the pandemic as if it had ended, even claiming in Tulsa that he has asked aides to “slow down” testing to keep the overall number of reported cases from rising. The U.S. death toll from COVID-19 tops 121,000.

Before leaving the White House on Tuesday, Trump scoffed at his press secretary’s claim that the president’s call to slow testing was meant as a joke.

“I don’t kid,” Trump told reporters on the South Lawn. “By having more tests, we find more cases.”

But making the wall a symbol of Trump’s harsh approach to immigration enforcement has drawn scrutiny on the project itself, especially since construction has occurred only on 10% of the border.

Trump tweeted a complaint Monday night after watching a Fox News report on the slow progress, declaring that the wall is “well under construction, fully financed and already over 200 miles long.”

Hat tip to Yahoo News.

I always thought of Obama as the most narcissistic President we have ever had. He was however slick and polished in his delivery and stayed on message constantly.

Trump is a bull shit artist with a deep seated need for love and adoration from everybody he is in contact with. A mafia style loyalty demand, and a thin skin for criticism.

We can do much better, stop being sold snake oil.

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All shooting is at 10 yards with Remington 115 grain 9mm.

The gun violence in Chicago is a favorite topic for both left and right. There were 60 shooting in Chicago over the Fathers Day weekend with 10 dead.

that doesn’t count stabbings, assaults, sexual assaults or domestic violence.

this is the press briefing;

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Now please tell me again how all the protests and rioting aren’t politically motivated.
How the social anger for justice is the real cause

”Larry” Biden:

“Even Dr. King’s assassination did not have the worldwide impact that George Floyd’s death did,” Biden said with a mask dangling from his ear.

“Because just like television changed the civil rights movement for the better when they saw Bull Connor’s dogs ripping the clothes off of elderly black women who were trying to go to church, and fire hoses ripping the skin off of young kids,” he said.

Bull Connor was a Democrat and Commissioner of Public Safety for Birmingham, Alabama.

”Moe” Trump:

President Donald Trump on Friday said that while President Abraham Lincoln — who freed Black people from slavery during the Civil War while also saving the Union — did some good, the “end result” of the 16th president’s actions are “always questionable.”

Trump’s bizarre comment about his fellow Republican came during an interview with Fox News’ Harris Faulkner, in which the president said he had done more for the Black community than any other president, with the possible exception of Lincoln.

“So, I think I’ve done more for the Black community than any other president, and let’s take a pass on Abraham Lincoln, cause, he did good, although it’s always questionable,” Trump told Faulkner

Floyd has a greater impact than MLK death…..

Trump has done more for Blacks than Lincoln freeing the slaves…Lincoln ”questionable”

I’m getting worried about who is going to come after these Yahoo!’s

His right arm seems to not be working correctly. When he is walking down the ramp, his right arm is not swinging at all.

When taking a drink, his right arm can’t get to his mouth without using his left.

I know he’s old, but that’s not normal.

I don’t hold Trump in contempt at all, he is who he has always been
I hold trump brown shirts in contempt. Everything Trump says or does is Gospel. If you don’t agree you’re attacked.

a thinking person can disagree with Trump, a trumpblind follower can’t stand that. Never actually answers anything, trumpblind followers still will fight rather than admit the Rocky poster with Trumps face was doctored. They will forget, ignore, or deflect anything less than adoration and unconditional acceptance. That’s stupid.

there are a great many “lessor evil” voters, nothing wrong with that, I’m not one. I think voting for the lessor evil got us in the spot we are in.
Trump is, in every possible measure, a fiscal and social moderate democrat. If that’s ok with you because he isn’t Biden, go ahead and vote for him.

Every democrat in my lifetime was going to “destroy the constitution and turn America into a third world country, destroy everything good and holy in the country.”
most important election in…..years, decades, lifetime, history of our country, history of the world, etc, etc 

So far we’re still here. The democrooks get as much of their campaign crap done as the Republicans do.
Little to nothing, so why sit on the edge of your seat in fear of losing everything the talking heads tell you (On both sides) that are in “grave and present danger” if xxxxxxxx gets elected.

a trumpblind followers hears about something stupid Trump says and points to ….fakenewsdeepstateswamprinosocialisthillaryliverbidenvotertrumphaterantiamericansadloser

most people will have a moment of awareness. Trump will say something and you will think about it and say…”no, that’s crap”

it may be something you personally know about (how a state Phone call happens, gun laws, building walls on the border) or he may attack someone you know for yourself is a great and America loving leader of men, a person who has a long history of faithful conservatism, a military leader with chops nobody can touch. Getting trashed as everything but a good person.

and the trumpblind will forget years of history of the person and jump in with both feet, branding them with viscous lies and blatant bull crap because…….Trump 

that’s a trumpblind follower and yes, I hold them in contempt.

so should you, because they are making all of us look like mindless morons (a lot like Obama followers were)

that’s my opinion, my viewpoint. I personally know some people trashed for having the balls to disagree with Trump. And had their careers destroyed for serving their country with an egomaniac.

that doesn’t make me a democrat, Biden voter, Hillary lover, socialist, liberal, RINO, swamp, deep state, or any other attack from the ignorant fools.

Trump will not destroy the GOP, the Trumpers might. Because when Trump is out (Jan 2024) he will not fade away and the followers will not vote for anybody without the giant T endorsement. 
splitting the right and maybe giving the Dems power for years. They will cry to the GOP about satisfying them and “winning them back” while comparing every possibility with the Trump scale of MAGAness. 
This conservativeRepublican will not be picking up a hammer and nails to rebuild the bridges they have burned behind them.

They can grow the hell up or buy a subscription to Trump TV, Trump News Network, The Sirius Trump Channel, the Trump podcast network (All expected witching 9 months of retirement from office) And sit ‘n spin for all I care.

we don’t need them, we will recover.
And btw, the vastly overwealming majority of the Republicans in DC and State Capitals can’t wait for this loudmouth POS to be out of office.

take it for what it’s worth, As much as anybody else’s