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What stupid shit has Trump done today?

DexterTCN said:
Not exactly...em....fuckin hell.

Just don't know what to say, really.

That FEMA....really prepared for an emergency, eh.
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I'm sure it will come out that this firm was given a massive bung to supply this garbage and there's some connection to Trump or some or other Republican in Congress. There's money to be made out of disaster, fleecing the government. There was that energy supply contract a few weeks back.

But people in PR and US Virgin Islands are still suffering, getting sick and dying, and it will get worse if they have to eat rubbish like this. But it seems the news has moved on to the next thing. :(
 
Tankus said:
Why dont they have a clearout on military MREs....stuffs got a shelf life afterall ..
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Seen lots of people on social media suggesting military rations would at least have a better nutritional content, but y'know, contracts have been signed, I'm sure.

I think it's beyond the Administration and GOP led congress don't care. They genuinely want people on their knees and desperate. Easier to exploit them and the land that way. They've stopped counting casualties from Maria, or at least aren't publicising them.
 
D'wards said:
I just heard on the radio that Kim called The Donald old as an insult, and he responded by saying how he wouldn't go down to the level of insults, and how he could call Kim short and fat but he won't :facepalm:
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So he's down to racial stereotypes and body-shaming now? FFS.
 
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Seen lots of people on social media suggesting military rations would at least have a better nutritional content, but y'know, contracts have been signed, I'm sure.

I think it's beyond the Administration and GOP led congress don't care. They genuinely want people on their knees and desperate. Easier to exploit them and the land that way. They've stopped counting casualties from Maria, or at least aren't publicising them.
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Speaking of which . . .

The Lineman Got $63 an Hour. The Utility Was Billed $319 an Hour.

For their trouble, the six electrical workers from Kissimmee are earning $42 an hour, plus overtime. The senior power linemen from Lakeland are earning $63 an hour working in Puerto Rico, the Florida utility said. Their 40 co-workers from Jacksonville, also linemen, are making up to $100 earning double time, public records show.
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But the Montana company that hired the workers, Whitefish Energy Holdings, had a contract that allowed it to bill the Puerto Rican public power company, known as Prepa, $319 an hour for linemen, a rate that industry experts said was far above the norm even for emergency work — and almost 17 times the average salary of their counterparts in Puerto Rico.
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A spokesman for Whitefish, Chris Chiames, defended the costs, saying that “simply looking at the rate differential does not take into account Whitefish’s overhead costs,” which were built into the rate.
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Well, turns out I can't work out how to put screenshots in.. . . .

Just intrigued by the Twitter announcement



WHAT THE HELL DOES THAT MEAN?

Leave NAFTA?

Create some sort of Patriot Day holiday?

Fire someone...?

God knows.
 
Actually, looking around some legal tweeting people it seems an investigation into Uranium 1/Clinton Foundation seems possible. . .

Yep, he's learned his reality show stuff well, huh?
 
I honestly don't know enough to have an opinion, let alone a strong opinion, on that.

I know it would be BIG, disruptive and popular with his nationalist base - I suspect it would be bad for all three economies in the short term.

But I picked it as an example of something BIG and emblematic more than anything else.

Bearing in mind where he's been and other major announcements he's made from the White House it's perhaps just as likely to be some US/China business deal - some Chinese company setting up in Texas or the like.
 
MightyTibberton said:
Actually, looking around some legal tweeting people it seems an investigation into Uranium 1/Clinton Foundation seems possible. . .

Yep, he's learned his reality show stuff well, huh?
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I know I've said "we're fucked" before, but if this is the announcement, and the President is weaponising the judiciary to attack his political opponents on spurious grounds, then the US really is fucked, and so is the world. :(
 
Sessions is testifying before the House Judiciary Committee - apparently does not have Trump's "one of the great memories" when it comes to George Papadopoulos meetings.
 
Looking at legal people tweeting I saw a fun little fact. Trump admin has put a lot of people into government posts that need senate confirmation without getting senate confirmation.

On November 18th they will go through a 300-day deadline that will mean they should either stand down until they do get their confirmations or they can carry on technically illegally and thus rendering anything they do subject to legal challenge.
 
MightyTibberton said:
Looking at legal people tweeting I saw a fun little fact. Trump admin has put a lot of people into government posts that need senate confirmation without getting senate confirmation.

On November 18th they will go through a 300-day deadline that will mean they should either stand down until they do get their confirmations or they can carry on technically illegally and thus rendering anything they do subject to legal challenge.
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Yes, they did. And, the GOP dominated Senate started their shenannigans while Obama was still president. You may recall they refused to even hold hearings for confirmation of the President's nominee, Merrick Garland, to fill the Supreme Court vacancy. They had no justification for the refusal, other than they wanted to appoint "one of their own" and figured they'd have a better chance the longer they waited. How the Hell they got away with this, I don't know, but it should have been an indication of their determination to subvert democracy, by any means necessary.
 
As opposed to the pain US workers have been feeling for the last 4 decades, with the increase in inequality and the bottom three-fifths of society being worse off in real terms.

Oh those lovely free trade agreements.
 
redsquirrel said:
As opposed to the pain US workers have been feeling for the last 4 decades, with the increase in inequality and the bottom three-fifths of society being worse off in real terms.

Oh those lovely free trade agreements.
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well then lets pile more pain on them, says you.

and while i have no use for anything short of full communism, you're going to have to show that all the ills of the past four decades are down to free trade agreements, and not the whole bucket of neoloberalism launched by reagan, or indeed just capitalism itself.
 
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