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What stupid shit has Trump done today?

Yuwipi Woman said:
It's very much a living issue. A lot of these monuments didn't go up right after the civil war. Many of them went up as a response to the civil rights movement. We're still dealing with the same issues.
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Thanks for that, I would have made the mistake of defending the Souths right to have these monuments if they had been erected circa the civil war, or shortly afterwards.
 
ferrelhadley said:
Lots of that going on. There have been informal programs to get as much climate data backed up outside the US since he was elected.
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Yep, and all the reports monitoring animal welfare were stripped from the USDA site in February. The Humane Society of the US struggled to find content for their annual report on the state of dog breeding because the information just wasn't there any more. It's not clear if inspection checks are even being carried out, whether it's the super hog production factories or puppy mills.

The worrying thing about data being pulled from government sites, federal jobs being left unfilled and funding being cut from a whole slew of research and regulatory agencies is once you stop monitoring problems, stop collecting the data, it becomes impossible to "prove" that there is a problem. Health and safety risks at work? Not a problem anymore. We stopped counting them. Dangerous side effects of prescription drugs? You can't prove there are any because we've stopped accepting reports. Lead in the water supply causing brain damage in children? Naw, we don't test water anymore and axed the health research to save money. etc. etc.
 
Hmm, tweet from this White House spokesperson (who covered for Sean Spicer when he was hiding in the bushes) hasn't aged well!

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Johnny Canuck3 said:
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Thanks, Trump! :mad:
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Somebody needs to turn up with an industrial fire extinguisher next time these people crawl out of their holes.
 
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On TAC Trump’s Boastful Incompetence
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The trouble isn’t just that Trump revealed sensitive information to representatives of another major power, but that he was sharing information that another government had provided to ours in confidence. This was information that was considered sensitive enough that it hadn’t been shared with other close allies, but that didn’t stop the president from blurting it out. At the very least, the relationship with the government in question will be severely strained as a result of this breach of confidence, and that could make them uncooperative in the future. The Timesreport emphasized this point:

The ally has repeatedly warned American officials that it would cut off access to such sensitive information if it were shared too widely, said the former official.​

Assuming that cooperation with this government was useful to the U.S., there would need to be a compelling reason to risk that cooperation by sharing the information they provided, and no one–including the White House–is offering any explanation for why it was done. As far as we can tell from these reports, Trump was just showing off what “great intel” he has access to, and he predictably gave no thought to the implications of what sharing that “great intel” might be. Worse, this breach will make other governments that normally cooperate with ours think twice before sharing information for fear that Trump will spill it to someone he shouldn’t in another fit of boasting.
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A breach of procedure that may be harmless but it's part of a pattern of "unfiltered" behaviour his supporters actually find endearing. Here perhaps just showing the much admired big boys all his expensive toys. Trump may be less capable of discretion than a typical six year old. He needs to brag as other men need breath.
 
On Slate Walk Softly and Blurt Out Whatever Is On Your Mind
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Has anything surprised you about foreign policy in the Trump era?

What I have been genuinely surprised by—and I am not sure quite how to phrase this—is that the world hasn’t ended. Trump has committed a series of gaffes and own goals, and in the end his defenders can plausibly argue that nothing has been fundamentally transformed yet. If you actually take a look, and strip away the rhetoric, there hasn’t been that much deviation from previous administrations’ foreign policy.

Famous last words, Dan.

Yeah, I know. I know. There have been obvious differences on trade, and we still have three years and many months left. So there is plenty of time to screw this up. But what has been striking to me is the degree to which allies have been willing to deal with this White House, and countries like China have also been willing to deal with this White House. Although in the latter case, I think they know they can hoodwink him.
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Yes, all that foreign policy Trump decried as dreadful on the stump is pretty much still in place. Often amplified in ways candidate Trump would have damned.
 
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Trump explains that he did what he did for humanitarian reasons.
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(this is the closest thing to contrition i've seen from him yet, no exclamation marks no FAKE NEWS, very uncharacteristic)
 
"Openly scheduled" - but not openly reported that the ambassador, contact with whom led to Flynn's firing, was there.

And doesn't cover the main points of the Washington Post story - it was classified information that had been delivered by an ally who hadn't given permission for it to be shared, and doing so would jeopardise both the relationship with the ally and the source of the intelligence, which Russia could deduce from what was revealed even if he didn't say: "Would you believe, Israeli intelligence actually has a guy called Steve in Isis' top bomb-making team in Raqqa!?"

If the explanation he's giving now is true, it's not unreasonable - no-one wants ISIS to blow up any planes, anywhere - but...

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Just on LM:
She's not the other side's version of Alex Jones, she's just totally mental, she doesn't even have vitamin supplements to sell.
Today it's been like this.

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This means she's happy, because there's news of warrants being issued for the Trump-Russia enquiry.
But please lets not ever imagine she's an iconic symbol of anything apart from 'don't do drugs kids'.
 
bimble said:
Just on LM:
She's not the other side's version of Alex Jones, she's just totally mental, she doesn't even have vitamin supplements to sell.
Today it's been like this.

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This means she's happy, because there's news of warrants being issued for the Trump-Russia enquiry.
But please lets not ever imagine she's an iconic symbol of anything apart from 'don't do drugs kids'.
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She was endorsed by and had contact with the Clinton campaign during the election, she has been boosted by mainstream US liberal media very many times and continues to be.
 
Well, this is awkward . . .

Israel reportedly provided intelligence Trump disclosed to Russia

Israel was the source of the highly classified intelligence President Donald Trump disclosed to Russian officials, according to a report by the New York Times.

The Times reports that, according to a current and a former American official, it was information that Israel relayed to the United States. The intelligence was deemed too classified to share with other United States allies, let alone a rival state like Russia, the Washington Post’s sources said. Russia is the main supporter of Syrian President Bashar Assad, and an ally of Iran, one of Israel’s principal adversaries.
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Israel and the United States are close allies whose leaders often refer to the countries’ “special relationship.” The United States provides Israel with some $4 billion of defense assistance annually, and the countries share intelligence and participate in joint military exercises. Trump will be visiting Israel next week on his first foreign trip as president.
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In January, an Israeli newspaper reported that American intelligence officials warned their Israeli counterparts not to share sensitive information with the Trump administration because of the threat that it could be leaked to Russia.
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On TAC Christians Tempted By Trump Idolatry
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For my tribe, conservative Christians, the stakes are mighty high as well. Many of us have already been willing to ignore a lot of things we previously said that we should not ignore — this, for the sake of supporting Trump. I did not vote in the presidential election, but I certainly understand why conservative Christians may have voted for Trump with a heavy heart, given how hostile Hillary Clinton would have been to our interests. Now, though, we had better be asking ourselves where the line is that Trump would have to cross to cost him our support. If — if — we learn that Trump did what he is alleged to have done, and you stand behind him even so, how do you answer the charge that Christians care so much about access to power that they will turn a blind eye when the president they support blabs extremely sensitive national security secrets to the Russians? Are we really idolaters who would sell our souls to stay in the king’s good graces?

Again: we don’t know for sure that Trump did what he is accused of doing. But if, once the smoke clears, he turns out to have done it, what will we do? Where will our moral credibility be if we still stand by him? Why should anyone take us seriously after that? There was a time when we condemned Democrats and liberals for standing by Bill Clinton, despite how he disgraced the Oval Office. We accused them of caring more about power than principle — and we were right to. Remember when the liberal journalist Nina Burleigh said in 1998, amid the Lewinsky scandal, that she would fellate Bill Clinton to thank him for keeping abortion legal? Are conservative Christians really prepared to walk a mile in her kneepads for Donald Trump? And for what?

God is not mocked.
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There is something corrupting about Trumpism as a form of worship. He's a monument to needy vanity.

"I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
-- Ozymandias by Shelley

King of Kings and yet something already broken.
 
The Trump administration is actively playing down the risks of the potentially extestential threat to civilisation that is posed by climate change.
Yet the biggest issue for some on here about the Trump administration is
Louise Mensch
Just how out of touch am I that I am far more worried about their climate denial, there playing hard ball with the nuclear armed DPRK, there promotion of creationism in education, there all out assault on workers rights and there stripping of access to health care to parts of the US population.
Funnily enough the same ones who put so much effort into trying to dismiss or downplay any Russian involvement, among other rather "idiosyncratic" opinions.
 
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