#Presidementia #TrumpLiesAmericansDie #TrumpBrainDroppings (7) After an incoherent ramble about his plan to march to the Capitol, an agitated & impaired Trump returns to Space Force, VA Cares, the stale old lines from 2019 super-spreader rallies."

#Presidementia #TrumpLiesAmericansDie #TrumpBrainDroppings (8) Trump is switching subject from grievance to grievance, from "bad things" to "it was a setup," & "Hillary Clinton is very unhappy because they didn't change votes for her." Unhinged, paranoid, delusional.
#Presidementia #TrumpLiesAmericansDie #TrumpBrainDroppings (9) Trump shouts out that the Georgia Senate election last night was rigged, fixed, corrupt, "and Kelly & David didn't have a chance." Then he repeats for 3rd time how he won every state in a landslide, but was robbed.
#Presidementia #TrumpLiesAmericansDie #TrumpBrainDroppings (10) Trump yells that "if we had just won 3 of the 7 states in question, we would be President, & the only backline we have's the veto of the President of the United States." No telling what he meant. Incoherent, strange.
#Presidementia #TrumpLiesAmericansDie #TrumpBrainDroppings (11) Trump continues his jacked up rant, falsely claiming Loeffler & Perdue were cheated because of the rigged voting machines. Says he has hundreds of pages of evidence he wants to read. He's out of touch with reality.
#Presidementia #TrumpLiesAmericansDie #TrumpBrainDroppings (12) Trump is on tilt as he attacks Hunter Biden again, a malicious slander. Returns for 5th time to "corrupt media" & "suppression." "The hoaxes & lies & fake election -- they cheated like hell." Demented, delusional.
#Presidementia #TrumpLiesAmericansDie #TrumpBrainDroppings (13) Trump repeats "look at what happens," tells another "Sir" story, & he has been off script for about 30 minutes now. Yelling about SCOTUS, Bill Barr, but he's not making sense. Totally weird. Now back to script.
#Presidementia #TrumpLiesAmericansDie #TrumpBrainDroppings (14) Reading from his written text, Trump tries to say that election rules were changed illegally, so the Presidential election should be voided. (No proof of such illegality exists.)
#Presidementia #TrumpLiesAmericansDie #TrumpBrainDroppings (15) Trump repeats the false allegation (the frank lie) that there were more ballots than voters. These are lies he stated on the Georgia phone call on Monday. Demented people do this, as reality is beyond their grasp.
#Presidementia #TrumpLiesAmericansDie #TrumpBrainDroppings (16) Trump holds a paper, probably the same notes he used in his corrupt, lie-ridden call to the Georgia Secretary of State (and other places). The "400,000 ballots from nowhere," the "ballots thrown in the river," etc.
#Presidementia #TrumpLiesAmericansDie #TrumpBrainDroppings (17) This rant, delusional & terribly embarrassing, is the same as the hour monologue on the phone with the Georgians, including the "Sir" stories (but not Space Force & MS-13). He's also going on about PA, WI, MI losses.
#Presidementia #TrumpLiesAmericansDie #TrumpBrainDroppings (18) Demented people can shout and ramble for hours, but they can't engage in dialogue or give-and-take. Dementia robs the person of the ability to assess reality, handle complex problems, or deal with novel situations.
#Presidementia #TrumpLiesAmericansDie #TrumpBrainDroppings (19) Trump has insulted about as many Republicans as Democrats, now doing "we kept the oil in Iraq, ISIS, empty military cupboards, corrupt democrat run insecure illegal drop-boxes."
#Presidementia #TrumpLiesAmericansDie #TrumpBrainDroppings (20) Pence has started the proceeding to certify the election, so I'm signing off for now. Trump may ramble for another hour. Pence is already under fire from the floor. More later. **END**

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My piece in the NY Times today: "the Trump administration is denying applications submitted to the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services at a rate 37 percent higher than the Obama administration did in 2016."

Based on this analysis: "Denials for immigration benefits—travel documents, work permits, green cards, worker petitions, etc.—increased 37 percent since FY 2016. On an absolute basis, FY 2018 will see more than about 155,000 more denials than FY 2016."
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"This increase in denials cannot be credited to an overall rise in applications. In fact, the total number of applications so far this year is 2 percent lower than in 2016. It could be that the higher denial rate is also discouraging some people from applying at all.."

Thanks to @gsiskind for his insightful comments. The increase in denials, he said, is “significant enough to make one think that Congress must have passed legislation changing the requirements. But we know they have not.”

My conclusion:

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