What stupid shit has Trump done today?

[Tankus]

Dunno if its red pill or blue pill ...though ?

 

[spring-peeper]

While he is busy saying nice things about the response to the hurricane, he lashes out at other countries.

Donald J. Trump‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump 6h6 hours ago

We are in the NAFTA (worst trade deal ever made) renegotiation process with Mexico & Canada.Both being very difficult,may have to terminate?

Donald J. Trump‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump 6h 6 hours ago

With Mexico being one of the highest crime Nations in the world, we must have THE WALL. Mexico will pay for it through reimbursement/other.

Bad countries for not accepting his requested changes.

 

[J Ed]

After a few weeks of mostly not punching left because Trump did it and repeated their 'they are just as bad as each other' trope, the liberal media is back to it.

Why the 'Alt-Left' Is a Problem

Black-clad antifa members attack peaceful right-wing demonstrators in Berkeley

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Derek Black, listening in a coffee shop, said Trump's words "took my breath away."

The president had, in his view, validated the white supremacist messaging strategy in a stroke.

What they heard, he said, was "Donald Trump thinks we're fine." All the people who just needed a little extra nudge, to be told their son would be denied university because of affirmative action, or that an immigrant would take their jobs, had just been nudged.

Black called it the most important moment in the history of the modern white nationalist movement. David Duke and other white supremacists rejoiced. They've crawled out from under their rocks and are basking in their president's complicity.

A lot has already been written about this. Criticism has been ferocious. Still, most in the mainstream media have stopped short of saying outright that Donald J. Trump, president of the United States, is a white supremacist, or white nationalist, or whatever it is these people call themselves.

But then, for the longest time, the mainstream media stopped short of saying outright that Trump is a liar. The New York Times busted that dam, citing Trump's perpetuation of the lie that Barack Obama was not born in the United States, and now, it's barely controversial to call the president a liar.

By the same logic, it's now time to start referring to Trump as what he clearly is. And by that, I mean someone who panders to racists and appears determined to maintain a system that grants whites huge entitlements. And that system is known as white supremacy.

Donald Trump is operating straight from the white supremacist playbook: Opinion

 

[8den]

Someone lend Donnie a pair of two by fours and some nails. He's feeling persecuted again.

 

[chandlerp]

That's far too coherent for him

 

[8den]

That's far too coherent for him

He'd never say "persecuted" would he?

 

[taffboy gwyrdd]

With corporate dumbocrats like this, the defeat of Trump is far from in the bag.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

With corporate dumbocrats like this, the defeat of Trump is far from in the bag.

Yeah the "Better Deal" is DOA. In no way is the "Better Deal" better than the New Deal. If Democrats want a set of policies that will play well with the electorate, they should revive the Second Bill of Rights:

It is our duty now to begin to lay the plans and determine the strategy for the winning of a lasting peace and the establishment of an American standard of living higher than ever before known. We cannot be content, no matter how high that general standard of living may be, if some fraction of our people—whether it be one-third or one-fifth or one-tenth—is ill-fed, ill-clothed, ill-housed, and insecure.

This Republic had its beginning, and grew to its present strength, under the protection of certain inalienable political rights—among them the right of free speech, free press, free worship, trial by jury, freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures. They were our rights to life and liberty.

As our nation has grown in size and stature, however—as our industrial economy expanded—these political rights proved inadequate to assure us equality in the pursuit of happiness.

We have come to a clear realization of the fact that true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. “Necessitous men are not free men.”[3] People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

In our day these economic truths have become accepted as self-evident. We have accepted, so to speak, a second Bill of Rights under which a new basis of security and prosperity can be established for all—regardless of station, race, or creed.

Among these are:

• The right to a useful and remunerative job in the industries or shops or farms or mines of the nation;
• The right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation;
• The right of every farmer to raise and sell his products at a return which will give him and his family a decent living;
• The right of every businessman, large and small, to trade in an atmosphere of freedom from unfair competition and domination by monopolies at home or abroad;
• The right of every family to a decent home;
• The right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health;
• The right to adequate protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident, and unemployment;
• The right to a good education.

All of these rights spell security. And after this war is won we must be prepared to move forward, in the implementation of these rights, to new goals of human happiness and well-being.

America's own rightful place in the world depends in large part upon how fully these and similar rights have been carried into practice for all our citizens. For unless there is security here at home there cannot be lasting peace in the world.

Second Bill of Rights - Wikipedia

To be fair, the Democrats are in a bind. They have to pander to the corporatists to get the money needed to run, but they also need to appeal to their base, who's interests are in direct opposition to the corporatist agenda. They either need to find a funding source that aligns with their base, or get a new base.

BTW, you might be right about Trump getting reelected. If you recall Michael Moore predicted Trump's election. He's already predicting that Trump could win again:

Michael Moore Says Trump Is On Track To Win Again In 2020

 

[8den]

Yeah the "Better Deal" is DOA. In no way is the "Better Deal" better than the New Deal. If Democrats want a set of policies that will play well with the electorate, they should revive the Second Bill of Rights:



Second Bill of Rights - Wikipedia

To be fair, the Democrats are in a bind. They have to pander to the corporatists to get the money needed to run, but they also need to appeal to their base, who's interests are in direct opposition to the corporatist agenda. They either need to find a funding source that aligns with their base, or get a new base.

BTW, you might be right about Trump getting reelected. If you recall Michael Moore predicted Trump's election. He's already predicting that Trump could win again:

Liked for the above, I hadn't heard of it, bizarre radical "socialism" from an American President.

Michael Moore Says Trump Is On Track To Win Again In 2020

Oh god. Who fucking knows at this point, I doubt my blood pressure would hold out through 8 years of Trump, but I guess by then 44 years will be considered old age in America.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Oh god. Who fucking knows at this point, I doubt my blood pressure would hold out through 8 years of Trump, but I guess by then 44 years will be considered old age in America.

Me either. I even had another one of my epic nose bleeds this week from my blood pressure spiking. Luckily, this one didn't require a trip to the ER.

I may have to take a break from politics just to keep my sanity.

 

[spring-peeper]

Me either. I even had another one of my epic nose bleeds this week from my blood pressure spiking. Luckily, this one didn't require a trip to the ER.

I may have to take a break from politics just to keep my sanity.

(((Yuwipi Woman)))

 

[petee]

Me either. I even had another one of my epic nose bleeds this week from my blood pressure spiking. Luckily, this one didn't require a trip to the ER.

I may have to take a break from politics just to keep my sanity.

this makes a small but not insignificant improvement

Make America Kittens Again

options for bannon and farange, too

 

[8den]

Cernovich Sources: White House 'Coup' Underway, Trump 'Under House Arrest' - Breitbart

TLR Cernovich (pizzagate fuckknuckle) is claiming that there's a WH coup because apparently he and other Breitbart scum haven't got the same access now that Bannon's gone)

Not exactly good or bad news but always nice to see this shit weasel throw a tantrum.

 

[CRI]

Yeah the "Better Deal" is DOA. In no way is the "Better Deal" better than the New Deal. If Democrats want a set of policies that will play well with the electorate, they should revive the Second Bill of Rights:



Second Bill of Rights - Wikipedia

To be fair, the Democrats are in a bind. They have to pander to the corporatists to get the money needed to run, but they also need to appeal to their base, who's interests are in direct opposition to the corporatist agenda. They either need to find a funding source that aligns with their base, or get a new base.

BTW, you might be right about Trump getting reelected. If you recall Michael Moore predicted Trump's election. He's already predicting that Trump could win again:

Michael Moore Says Trump Is On Track To Win Again In 2020

Yup, ideologically, the GOP have no qualms about appealing to bigotry, hellfire and damnation and playing on the predisposition of their base towards having faith in preposterous things to bring voters into line. Democrats, regardless of where they are on the ideological spectrum, tend to have quite a few qualms about that, making "unity" hard to achieve. Also have a hunch Republicans or those who back them and Trump are stirring the pot with astroturfing and bots on social media, pushing the line that anti-fascists are as bad as y'know, real fascists, that sort of thing.

Michael Moore? I dunno. Used to have time for him, but then he backed Ralph Nader in 2000, and the Nader vote got us GW Bush, so . . . Hope he's wrong anyhoo.

 

[extra dry]

Backed by NRA, the Trump administration seeks to end bans on hunting in national parks

Trump and co. Plan for 2018 Kill everything.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Backed by NRA, the Trump administration seeks to end bans on hunting in national parks

Trump and co. Plan for 2018 Kill everything.

This is probably as much for the anti-wolf crowd as anything.

If the ban on hunting the parks is lifted, you won't see a wolf in the US soon after.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Here's a terrifying take on Trump's American from an odd source:

Even once Trump is out of office—whether by the 2020 election, or, less likely, impeachment or resignation—we can't just pick up where we left off on November 8th. Trump has awakened anger and backlash that won't leave just because he does. The young screaming white men we saw line the streets of Charlottesville aren't just a terrifying memory—they're a sign of things to come.

Alex Pareene writes (and I agree) that the "alt-right" will soon translate to the mainstream GOP: "In a decade, state legislatures will start filling up with Gamergaters, MRAs, /pol/ posters, Anime Nazis, and Proud Boys. These are, as of now, the only people in their age cohort becoming more active in Republican politics in the Trump era. Everyone else is fleeing. This will be the legacy of Trumpism...."

This is the future and reality we have to start preparing for—the one that feminists and racial justice activists have been warning us about for years. They've been leading the charge against the rot that pervades culture and politics. If you haven't been listening to them yet, you need to start now.

Getting Trump Impeached Isn't Going to Fix America—It's Too Late

 

[taffboy gwyrdd]

Holy fuck, Bernie has let the cat out of the bag

 

[CRI]

This is probably as much for the anti-wolf crowd as anything.

If the ban on hunting the parks is lifted, you won't see a wolf in the US soon after.

There was also this: Trump just made it legal to shoot bears while they’re hibernating and this
How wild horses of the West would die under Trump budget

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

There was also this: Trump just made it legal to shoot bears while they’re hibernating and this
How wild horses of the West would die under Trump budget

I got this from a group monitoring the Trump administration's attack on the National Parks and the environment in general:

A continuous list of the Trump administrations on going attack on the environment and wildlife. This timeline is long and will explain why our coalition exists. ...

• On January 20th, Trump silenced the National Park Service from using social media.
• On January 20th, National Park Service starts a “resistance” movement on social media accounts.
• On January 24th, Trump issues several memoranda aiming to hasten permitting from the Dakota Access and Keystone XL oil pipelines.
• On February 1st, U.S. Senate confirms ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson as secretary of state.
• On February 16th, Trump signs a joint resolution passed by Congress revoking the U.S. Department of the Interior’s “Stream Protection Rule.” The stream protection rule, which prevented mining companies dumping their waste into streams, is axed under the Congressional Review Act.
• On February 17th, U.S. Senate confirms Scott Pruitt as the head of the U.S. EPA. In his prior role as Oklahoma’s attorney general, Pruitt frequently sued the EPA over its regulations, notably leading a 27-state lawsuit against the Clean Power Plan.
• February 28th, President Trump issues an executive order formally asking the EPA to review the “Waters of the United States” rule.
• On March 2, U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke spends his first day on the job rescinding an Obama-era prohibition of lead ammunition on federal lands and waters. Also, the EPA, Scott Pruitt, canceled a requirement for reporting methane emissions.
• On March 7th, EPA’s Office of Science and Technology removed the word “science” from its mission statement.
• On March 9th, EPA administrator Scott Pruitt that carbon dioxide’s role in the Earth’s changing climate remains unclear.
• March 13th, White House releases its first preliminary budget under Trump. The budget outlines deep cuts to U.S. science and environmental agencies
• On March 16th, the Trump administration proposed a 13 percent budget cut to the Park Service funding. These budget cuts would lose 1,242 full-time equivalents (FTE) staff, leading to significant challenges at almost every park.
• On March 28th, Trump issued an executive order charging the DOI with reviewing rules for oil and gas drilling inside the boundaries of our national park sites. Trump's executive order also made the EPA start the process of rewriting the clean power plan.
• On March 29th, Against the advice of the EPA’s chemical safety experts, EPA administrator Scott Pruitt rejects a decade-old petition asking that the EPA ban all use of the pesticide chlorpyrifos. Research suggests that chlorpyrifos may be associated with brain damage in children and farm workers, even at low exposures.
• On March 29th, Ryan Zinke, the interior secretary, revoked the freeze and review on new coal leases on public lands.
• April 3rd, Overturned a ban on hunting of predators in Alaskan wildlife refuges. Including the hunting of bear cubs in and around their dens.
• April 5th, the trump administration withdrew guidance from federal agencies to include greenhouse gas emissions in environmental reviews.
• On April 7th, staff members at EPA’s headquarters who specialized in climate change adaptation have been reassigned.
• Rolled back limits on toxic discharge from power plants into public waterways.
• On April 16th, Trump issued an executive order calling on the DOI to reopen its five-year plan for offshore drilling.
• On April 19th, An Interior Department official updates the department’s climate change website, deleting much of its content in the process.
• On April 22nd, Scientist March on Washington, voicing support for science’s role in society.
• On April 26th, Trump instructs Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to review as many as 40 national monuments created since 1996 to determine if any of Trump’s three predecessors exceeded their authority when protecting large tracts of already-public land under the Antiquities Act of 1906.
• On April 27th, the EPA delayed a lawsuit over a rule regulating airborne mercury emissions from power plants.
• On April 28th, EPA scrubs climate change from their website.
• On May 5th, the EPA dismisses several members of the Board of Scientific Counselors.
• On June 1st, the U.S. pulls out of the Paris Climate Agreement.
• On June 8th, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke on Wednesday ordered a review of an Obama administration conservation plan to protect the greater sage grouse to determine if that plan interferes with Trump administration efforts to increase energy production on federal lands.
• On June 12th, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke recommended that Bears Ears National Monument in southern Utah’s red rock country be shrunk by President Trump.
• On June 26th, the administration called for the repeal of the Clean Water Rule.
• On July 6th, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers approved a permit that would allow Dominion Energy, to build 17 enormous transmission towers near Colonial National Historical Park, the site of the United States first English colony.
• On July 19th, the DOI called for re-examinationtion of rules that protect bears and wolves in national preserves in Alaska from egregious hunting methods, including baiting bears with grease-soaked donuts and killing mother bears with their cubs.
• On August 7th, The DOI relaxes aspects of sage grouse protection to help with the Trump administration’s efforts to increase energy production on federal lands.
• On August 22nd, the trump administration has suspended a study of health risks to residents who live near mountaintop removal coal mine sites in the Appalachian Mountains

 

[teqniq]

Indirectly connected to Trump, but not really deserving of it own thread. Nevertheless a murky tale concerning a building that no-one seems to want to invest in. Could it have something to do with it's address?

Deep in Debt, the Kushners Hunted for Cash Across the Globe

 

[teqniq]

 

[ohmightycat]

Has anybody else noticed the striking resemblance between Donald Trump and Bill Hunter in Strictly Ballroom?

 

[teqniq]

More on Kushner. The writers at the New Yorker do a fine line in satire.

Jared Kushner’s Harvard Admissions Essay

 

[Tankus]

Muellers expanded his investigation team to include the criminal investigations unit from the IRS

Time for golf

 

[TomUS]

Muellers expanded his investigation team to include the criminal investigations unit from the IRS

Time for golf

As deep throat said, "Follow the money."

 

[Supine]

How many thread pages before war? The ultimate distraction from a failing government.

 

[Supine]

I'm going for 148

 

[steveo87]

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