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This is happening on a huge scale. If you stop collecting information about an issue, it ceases to be an issue, because you no longer have evidence that it is an issue. Destroying all the information that might point to issues the Trump administration wants everyone to ignore is surely a modern version of book burning.

In a similar vein, the government has dropped plans to include questions about sexual orientation and gender status from the 2020 census.
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Given the nature of some of the people in and around that administration, that is probably a good thing.
 
Republicans held a fake inquiry on climate change to attack the only credible scientist in the room

Today, the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology held a heated hearing on the “assumptions, policy implications, and the scientific method” of climate science. In fact, the hearing was just an excuse to pretend there’s uncertainty within the scientific community on whether human-made climate change is real.

Four witnesses were asked to testify before the committee; only one of them — Michael Mann, a climate scientist at Penn State University — agreed with the other 97 percent of scientists who believe that human activity, like the burning of fossil fuels, is causing our planet to heat up. The other witnesses testified that we don’t really know how much people are contributing to climate change, and there’s too much uncertainty to consider global warming a threat.
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They've got time and money for bullshit like this, but not to investigate dubious links between Trump and the Russian leadership? Yeah.
 
On Bloomberg Trump Travel Ban Blocked for as Long as Court Battle Goes On
President Donald Trump was again barred from enforcing his revised travel ban on six mostly Muslim nations as he faces a court battle that will stretch for months, perhaps years.

The White House’s effort to “sanitize” the president’s original order failed to make “genuine changes” to avoid violating the Constitution’s ban on religious bias, a Hawaii federal judge ruled.

The ruling may cause further consternation for an administration struggling to enact some of the president’s central campaign platforms. It’s yet another victory for states, advocacy groups, technology companies and universities that successfully challenged the first executive order and its replacement as being at odds with nation’s founding principles and hurting the economy.
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If a slippery lawyer like Ted Cruz had won he'd have slipped something like this through effortlessly to the delight of his supporters. I recall they polled as actually more motivated by bigotry than Trump's. Big brained Ted would have understood healthcare as well.
 
On Bloomberg Trump's Coal Revival Will Make It Harder to Breathe
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Burning coal, after all, releases a lot more bad stuff into the air than just carbon dioxide. There’s also mercury, which makes its way into rivers and streams, where it’s eaten by fish and, in turn, by people -- poisoning brains and nervous systems, especially those of developing fetuses.

And then there’s sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide, any number of other volatile compounds, and particles of metal and chemicals. Aloft, this mess combines with sunlight to form smog. More than 7,500 Americans die from breathing it every year.

The Clean Power Plan -- an initiative of former President Barack Obama, and the principal target of Trump’s efforts -- would have prevented as many as 3,600 premature deaths a year by 2030, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. That plan is now tied up in litigation, but Trump proposes to do away with it altogether.

It’s not clear that he can, because it will require making a reasonable argument for why the EPA should suddenly stop regulating greenhouse gases. But it's a bad idea even to try.
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Donald Trump: Making America Wheeze Again.
 
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On Bloomberg Remember When Trump Said He Saved 1,100 Jobs at a Carrier Plant?
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UTC also pledged to spend $16 million on plant upgrades, including automation. That should make the plant more productive, which in turn could lessen the need to seek dirt-cheap wages. But technology tends to shrink payrolls, and that’s likely to happen at Carrier. “We will take a lot of those jobs that today require very low skill and … eliminate those jobs through automation,” Hayes says. UTC is, in his words, increasingly focused on “middle-skill” jobs, “the guys that assemble jet engines, repair jet engines, build aerospace components.” Carrier’s most advanced furnaces contain a tiny fraction of the 8,000 parts in Pratt & Whitney’s geared turbofan jet engines. The engine’s aluminum-titanium fan blades alone take weeks to manufacture. “You can afford to pay people more because of the value-added work,” says Hayes. “When you’re spending 27 seconds putting three screws into a gas furnace, not a lot of added value in that.”

He offers little comfort to the sorts of workers whose jobs he reluctantly preserved. “If you have a low-skilled job, they’re not safe no matter where you are,” he says. “The forces of globalization are not going to slow down.”

That’s painfully clear in Indiana. Not far from Carrier, Rexnord LLC is closing a bearings plant and shipping production to Mexico. Trump tweeted about it in December: “This is happening all over our country. No more!” Rexnord’s 350 workers are expected to be gone by summer. Elsewhere in the state, auto parts supplier CTS Corp. in Elkhart is sending production to Asia and Mexico, cutting 230 jobs. Welbilt Inc. closed its Sellersburg beverage systems factory in January and sent production to Mexico, eliminating more than 70 jobs. Harman Professional Solutions shifted some operations in Elkhart to Mexico, killing 125 jobs.

Layoffs at UTC’s Huntington plant began recently. The facility will be closed by early 2018. The Carrier fan-coil lines and related jobs will be gone by the end of this year. “I wish I could sit here and say the people are going to be all right,” Chuck Jones says. “That ain’t the f---ing case. A lot of these people’s lives are going to be ruined.”
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Long article on the inexorable erosion of low skill manufacturing jobs. Well I guess there's always pizza delivery. Bloomberg's also reporting Domino’s Will Begin Using Robots to Deliver Pizzas in Europe.
 
coley said:
Now this is the sort of message that the GOP opponents should be delivering in the GOP heartlands, short and to the point.
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I really doubt it will matter. Trump voters already know these things. They know about the lies and corruption underpinning the Trump administration and Republican congress. They aren't actually stupid.

Some of them believe it's all okay because at least it's different from the kind if corruption the think was there before. Tax avoidance, giving jobs to friends and family, accumulating wealth and flaunting it are things they do, or aspire to do themselves.

Others may cringe a wee bit, but they're happy to ignore it so long as Trump and Congress deliver the goods - banning abortion, deporting black and brown people, banning Muslims, etc. They're willing to suffer some if it means people they despise suffer even more.
 
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19force8 said:
Looks that way to me.

Saying a majority of Trump voters were women and PoC is not the same as saying he got the majority of women's and PoC votes.

Once you realise that white men are in a minority* in most multicultural societies it's hardly a surprising statistic.

* Only 1/3rd of the overall vote in the US.

"Yay, minority rights now!"

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not entirely persuaded by this, not least because the percentages in bimble's link seem very rounded.

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'white men' could be between 33.5% and 34.49% to be rounded to 34%. equally, the other percents could be similarly rounded. so you will forgive me if i don't give this table the credence you believe it deserves. and that's before you get onto the 'other/no answer' bit.
 
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not entirely persuaded by this, not least because the percentages in bimble's link seem very rounded.

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'white men' could be between 33.5% and 34.49% to be rounded to 34%. equally, the other percents could be similarly rounded. so you will forgive me if i don't give this table the credence you believe it deserves. and that's before you get onto the 'other/no answer' bit.
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54% of Trump Voters were women and people of colour?

So, women and people of colour are two distinct groups? Hey, maybe women of colour got counted twice to bump up the numbers. :facepalm:
 
CRI said:
54% of Trump Voters were women and people of colour?

So, women and people of colour are two distinct groups? Hey, maybe women of colour got counted twice to bump up the numbers. :facepalm:
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yeh 'women AND people of color' different from 'women OR people of color'
 
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not entirely persuaded by this, not least because the percentages in bimble's link seem very rounded.
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Sorry, I was conflating the BBC and Town Hall figures. I've tried to get hold of the raw figures, but this Edison firm they're all quoting doesn't seem to publish anything like the Ashcroft tables. So we can't get a definitive answer.

But you should ask yourselves why this statistic surprises you.

If you consider that only 47% of voters were men and only 70% of voters were white, then it's almost inconceivable that white men would have made up the majority of his vote. He'd have needed to get close to 5 in every 7 white male voters.

The point is that the statistic itself is meaningless except in the "alternative facts" sense it's being deployed for. Hence my tongue in cheek comment about white men being a minority.
 
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CRI said:
54% of Trump Voters were women and people of colour?

So, women and people of colour are two distinct groups? Hey, maybe women of colour got counted twice to bump up the numbers. :facepalm:
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Given how few people fit into that little subgroup - female, non-white Trump voters - it wouldn't make all that much difference if they were counted twice.
 
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Women and short people make a majority of Trump supporters. You got something against short people? Eh?
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I like the short people persons of compact stature theory of Trump. They've obviously been oppressed under the lanky Obama and are drawn to his tiny hands. They may have a theory he is actually two of their own in a suit. It also explains why his inauguration crowd looked so much smaller than Obamas. More shortism here:
 
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On Wonkette GOP: How Can Companies Offer You Good Deals If They Don’t Know What Porn You Like?
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Thanks to the Senate for passing S.J.Res 34 , now your Internet history can be bought.

I plan on purchasing the Internet histories of all legislators, congressmen, executives, and their families and make them easily searchable at searchinternethistory.com.

Everything from their medical, pornographic, to their financial and infidelity.
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What a treasure trove just imagine exploring the dark browsing habits of Ted Cruz.

Donald Trump: Making America Really Creepy.
 
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