camouflage
gaslit at scale.
snort!
It's not necessarily about having "something to prove" though. I for example find outspoken white supremacists to be genuinely offensive. I don't see how my being "white" makes my opinion any more or less valid than anyone else's. After all, those kind of twats are claiming to speak for people like me, when I want nothing to do with their repulsive ideology.
For example, Obama issued one for closing Gitmo but congress stopped it.I think executive orders are laws but they can't contradict or reverse laws already made by congress, they can be revoked by any future president, and congress is allowed to make laws which limits the funding available to fulfilling the order or otherwise limits their effectiveness. This is a straightforward explanation of them
Close the Guantanamo Bay Detention CenterOn Jan. 22, 2009, Obama issued an executive order calling for the closure of the prison facility at the U.S. Navy base in Cuba within one year. But Congress didn't agree with Obama's goal and banned the transfer of detainees to facilities within the United States.
The man is essentially a pirate: Captain Redbeard Trump....
DAVID MUIR: You've heard the critics who say that would break all international law, taking the oil. But I wanna get to the words ...
(OVERTALK)
DAVID MUIR: ... that you ...
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Wait, wait, can you believe that? Who are the critics who say that? Fools.
DAVID MUIR: Let, let me ...
PRESIDENT TRUMP: I don't call them critics. I call them fools.
DAVID MUIR: ... let me talk about your words ...
PRESIDENT TRUMP: We should've kept -- excuse me. We should've taken the oil. And if we took the oil you wouldn't have ISIS. And we would have had wealth. We have spent right now $6 trillion in the Middle East. And our country is falling apart.
...
On ABC News TRANSCRIPT: ABC News Anchor David Muir Interviews President Trump
The man is essentially a pirate: Captain Redbeard Trump.
He's also a chump of a businessman if he thinks the just over two of billion bucks a month Iraq currently has in oil revenues would make much dent in the trillions invested in war making. The Iraqi reconstruction was meant to be paid for by Iraqi oil but that alone finally consumed $40 billion US tax dollars. Most of the fields and infrastructure were in a poor state. Start up costs were high and what of maintenance?
I read it costs about a million dollars a year to deploy a US soldier in Afghanistan what with Air Con and air cover etc. At that rate Iraq's oil revenues of ~$25 billion PA would be wiped out by a sustained deployment of 25K US troops to hold the fields for a freebooting Uncle Sam. It's not even a loss leader.
that'd go down well. Have you seen to constitution bores having an argument before? That thing might as well have come down from the mountain carved in two giant stone tabletsHow soon until he attempts to argue that the Constitution should be read more as guidelines than actual rules?
Teresa May will shortly be the first world leader to meet face to face with Trump since his inauguration.
I wonder what Trump will tweet afterwards?
Something about the American companies soon to be running the NHSTeresa May will shortly be the first world leader to meet face to face with Trump since his inauguration.
I wonder what Trump will tweet afterwards?
Can someone explain something to me?
Is Trump's job as US President simply to issue a stream of Executive Orders? And are they kind of like laws? And, if so, what's the point of the rest of the government?
-genuinely puzzled-
It's OK, the Dutch have that one covered.The order he made stopping US funded agencies advising on abortions.
Presumably that was US government funded agencies only?
Psychologist Michal Kosinski developed a method of analyzing people’s behavior down to the minutest detail by looking at their Facebook activity—did a similar tool help propel Donald Trump to victory?
On November 9th, around 8:30 in the morning, Michal Kosinski awoke in his hotel room in Zurich. The 34-year-old had traveled here to give a presentation to the Risk Center at the ETH [Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule or Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich] at a conference on the dangers of Big Data and the so-called digital revolution. Kosinski gives such presentations all over the world. He is a leading expert on psychometrics, a data-driven offshoot of psychology. Turning on the television that morning in Zurich, he saw that the bomb had gone off: defying the predictions of nearly every leading statistician, Donald J. Trump had been elected president of the United States of America.
Kosinski watched Trump’s victory celebration and the remaining election returns for a long while. He suspected that his research could have had something to do with the result. Then he took a deep breath and turned off the television.
On the same day, a little-known British company headquartered in London issued a press release: “We are thrilled that our revolutionary approach to data-driven communications played such an integral part in president-elect Donald Trump’s extraordinary win,” Alexander James Ashburner Nix is quoted as saying. Nix is British, 41 years old, and CEO of Cambridge Analytica. He is always immaculately turned out in a tailored suit and designer eyeglasses, his slightly wavy blond hair combed back.
The meditative Kosinski, the well-groomed Nix, the widely grinning Trump—one made this digital upheaval possible, one carried it out, and one rode it to power.
fucking hell, that's an uplifting read.