What stupid shit has Trump done today?

[CRI]

U.N. officials touring rural Alabama are shocked at the level of poverty and environmental degradation

“Some might ask why a U.N. Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights would visit a country as rich as the United States," Alston said. "But despite great wealth in the U.S., there also exists great poverty and inequality.”

Alston also pointed out that the U.S. "has been very keen" on other countries being investigated by the U.N. for civil and human rights issues.

By many accounts, poverty in the U.S. is worse than in most developed nations, despite rhetoric espoused by President Donald Trump and others who claim that the U.S. is the "best country in the world."

These income and wealth disparities affect minorities the most. Black, Hispanic, and Native American children, for example, are two to three times more likely to live in poverty than white kids, according to a study using Census data by the Annie E. Casey Foundation.

Economic inequality and racial discrimination have also been linked with civil rights abuses, particularly in Alabama and other states across the South. Furthermore, police shootings of unarmed black men and women are of deep concern to the U.N.

Despite these concerns, the Republican Party, which controls all three branches of the federal government, is on course to pass a tax bill before the end of the year that will increase the federal deficit by $1 trillion in 10 years--costs that the GOP says will be offset by reducing an already-weakened social safety net.

 

[CRI]

Yup, we're all fucked.

Wall Street may decide if Trump will get away with firing Mueller | Eclectablog

Republicans can’t abandon Trump — not after tax cuts, not after firing Mueller — for a simple reason: His voters are more loyal to him than they are to the party.

Thus the result will be constitutional crisis like nothing we’ve seen since 1974 — only there is no Democratic Congress to rein a rogue Republican, no wise men of the party willing to talk that president into being reined.

Americans will either rise up and win some check on Trump’s power or the right will crush the uprising and send America stumbling into authoritarianism.

If the left erupts at the firing of Mueller, that will only endear Trump to his base. But if markets — the current barometer of American greatness according to Trump and the more affluent Americans who run this country — sink, the right may be forced to react.

 

[CRI]

Just saw this comment and it really makes sense.



Trump fans and backers of Moore as Alabama Senator are so fucking angry because they're having to believe ever more preposterous and ethically discomforting things to get what they want. They're pissed at Democrats and anyone else standing in their way and blame them for the guilty pangs they have to keep pushing away. I hate them.

 

[spring-peeper]

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U.N. officials touring rural Alabama are shocked at the level of poverty and environmental degradation

Felt the same way going through the Carolina'a

 

[coley]

Yup, we're all fucked.

Wall Street may decide if Trump will get away with firing Mueller | Eclectablog

Many analysts predict an almighty crash in the US stock market in the coming months, but no doubt the Megamouth will manage to blame that on Hilary/Obama

 

[coley]

Felt the same way going through the Carolina'a

Bliddy sad, but reading atween the lines of many right wing American media outlets, many Americans would rather eat mud than see a Latino/black Americans enjoy the 'American dream'

 

[coley]

Just saw this comment and it really makes sense.

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Trump fans and backers of Moore as Alabama Senator are so fucking angry because they're having to believe ever more preposterous and ethically discomforting things to get what they want. They're pissed at Democrats and anyone else standing in their way and blame them for the guilty pangs they have to keep pushing away. I hate them.

People who would rather have a paedoplile representing them, as opposed to An/Other.....?

 

[CRI]

People who would rather have a paedoplile representing them, as opposed to An/Other.....?

Absolutely. I'd go as far as to say Moore's values aren't inconsistent with those of the people who will vote for him. Many just aren't as candid about it as he is.

Check this, for example. He basically wants to return America to the glory days of the early 19th Century. Then Black people and women knew their place, no one bitched about gun control and privileged white men chose the upper chamber of the US Congress.

Roy Moore in 2011: Getting rid of amendments after 10th would 'eliminate many problems' - CNNPolitics

Moore cited the 17th Amendment, which calls for the direct election of senators by voters rather than state legislatures, as one he particularly found troublesome

The host agreed with Moore, before turning his attention to the 14th Amendment, which was passed during the Reconstruction period following the Civil War and guaranteed citizenship and equal rights and protection to former slaves and has been used in landmark Supreme Court cases such as Brown v. Board of Education and Obergefell v. Hodges.

"People also don't understand, and being from the South I bet you get it, the 14th Amendment was only approved at the point of the gun," the host said.

Besides the 14th and 17th Amendments, amendments adopted after the Bill of Rights include the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery, the 15th Amendment which prohibited the federal and state governments from denying citizens the right to vote based on that person's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude," and the 19th Amendment, which extended the right to vote to women.

 

[CRI]

This though shows what's at stake.

 

[CRI]

This is an important read for the context of tomorrow's vote in Alabama. (My bold in places.)

Barriers to the Ballot in Alabama's Black Belt

. . . as Alabama’s story today tells, the Voting Rights Act was not ironclad. As the cornerstone of the movement for the franchise, Alabama has also played the part of headquarters of resistance, a long legal and legislative guerrilla war against voting rights that culminated in 2013’s Shelby County v. Holder case, one where officials in the Alabama county successfully sued for all of the former dominion of Jim Crow to be released from federal VRA oversight. That victory, and the structural barriers to voting erected in its aftermath, are a serious—and largely unacknowledged—impediment to Democrat Doug Jones’s chances in the special election for the state’s open Senate seat on Tuesday.

Part of the story of the Alabama special election is how resilient Moore has been with white voters. The Washington Post-Schar School poll shows him retaining the support of 63 percent of likely white voters in the state, including 57 percent of white women. While these numbers show that the onslaught of allegations of crimes against women have hurt him somewhat—recently, Republican presidential candidates in the state have garnered upwards of 70 percent of the white electorate—they also show that there appears to be nothing that can entirely stop the dominance of any GOP candidate with white Alabamians.

Alabama was one of the collection of Southern states that either passed or began enforcing new voter ID laws after the requirement for federal pre-clearance was effectively made null.

In 2015, state Republicans announced the closures of 31 DMV offices across the state, ostensibly in a cost-saving measure. But AL.com journalists Kyle Whitmore and John Archibald found that the closures were concentrated in the black belt, and that of the 10 counties with the highest percentage of nonwhite voters, the state closed DMV offices in eight, and left them without offices entirely, meaning those voters either had to travel long distances to other counties to get licenses or visit special registrar’s offices in order to vote.

Facing pressure, the state relented on some of the closings, instead operating a handful of the offices for fewer hours, but a U.S. Department of Transportation investigation still found that “African Americans residing in the Black Belt region of Alabama disproportionately underserved by ALEA’s driver licensing services, causing a disparate and adverse impact on the basis of race.”

. . . officials have steadfastly refused to implement the kind of reforms that have continued the work of the Voting Rights Act and continually expanded black turnout over the years. Early voting, which has been a key factor for other states in increasing black turnout, is not permitted in Alabama. The state also doesn’t have no-fault absentee voting, * In all, it’s harder to vote in Alabama than just about anywhere else, a dynamic that should tend towards cooling the turnout of people who’ve only been allowed to vote in the state for 50 years.

Until this year, the state retained a white-supremacist “moral turpitude” clause allowing registrars to block black people with felonies from voting. Although Governor Kay Ivey signed a bill in May reversing that rule, a federal court ruled that the state had no obligation to ever inform people with felonies that they could register to vote.

 

[Poi E]

Felt the same way going through the Carolina'a

Georgia, Alabama. All that poverty hiding in the woods along the interstate.

 

[bimble]

Is this real - Nige has flown over there to Alabama, to help ? wtf.

 

[MightyTibberton]

I hope the Feds snag him while he's there. I'm heartily sick of his contribution to UK political life.

 

[MightyTibberton]

I hope the Feds snag him while he's there. I'm heartily sick of his contribution to UK political life.

Overly serious person: So much for the Tolerant Left! Here you are asking for your political opponents to get locked up by not just the secret police, but a foreign secret police force. It is you who is the real fascist. [George Orwell quote follows.].

Me: Sheesh. It was a joke. I wish Nigel life-long freedom in a meadow of his choice, unless he's broken the law of course.

 

[gosub]

tbf He hasn't tweeted about the NY bomb (yet). Correcting reports of his tv watching habits far more important

 

[CRI]

The Republican overseeing the Alabama election doesn't think voting should be easy

Oh look, another racist sack of shit is overseeing the Alabama elections.

Republican John Merrill said in an interview with documentary filmmaker Brian Jenkins. Jenkins had asked why he opposed automatically registering Alabamians when they reach voting age, and his response sizzled with anger toward people who “think they deserve the right because they’ve turned 18.” So he made a pledge: “

As long as I’m secretary of state of Alabama, you’re going to have to show some initiative to become a registered voter in this state.”

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Georgia, Alabama. All that poverty hiding in the woods along the interstate.

I used to run to southern Missouri fairly often. There's a gradual change in the style of houses from the north to the south. The further south in Missouri you go the fewer "traditional" houses you see. They gradually switch over to a lot of prefabs. You can get a used prefab for $10-15K or so. A "traditional" house might run many times that.

 

[phillm]

LIVE Press Conference: Trump Accusers Speak Out – Demand Investigation. Women share firsthand accounts of sexual misconduct by Donald Trump and demand an investigation by Congress.

 

[spring-peeper]

I used to run to southern Missouri fairly often. There's a gradual change in the style of houses from the north to the south. The further south in Missouri you go the fewer "traditional" houses you see. They gradually switch over to a lot of prefabs. You can get a used prefab for $10-15K or so. A "traditional" house might run many times that.

Iirc, the cheap version of the prefabs don't hold up well during wind events. I understand that there is a way to windproof the prefab but would place the home above many peoples reach. It would be good there were building codes for these prefabs, but I can't really see it happening.

 

[CRI]

Iirc, the cheap version of the prefabs don't hold up well during wind events. I understand that there is a way to windproof the prefab but would place the home above many peoples reach. It would be good there were building codes for these prefabs, but I can't really see it happening.

By prefabs, do you mean what at least used to be called "modular homes" or before that "double wides" as in two trailers side by side stuck together?

Fun fact - the population of the tiny village I grew up in rose from just over 300 in 1990 to over 400 in 2010 due to expansion of the trailer court at the North end of town when the owner bought and got permission to move into a nearby field. It's a combination of single and double wide trailers that are underpinned, so more or less permanent. When you don't have much in the way of subsidised housing, second hand trailers offer a lot more space than an apartment and can be quite well-appointed for the price. If you know someone who has land you can stay on, even better.

Not so fun fact - Tornadoes seem to make a bee line toward trailer parks. My niece nearly died in one when the roof collapsed. A giant teddy bear fell on top of her and saved her. Couple next door were crushed to death.

 

[Yossarian]

I wish Nigel life-long freedom in a meadow of his choice, unless he's broken the law of course.

I would also like to see Nigel Farage spend the rest of his life in a meadow, though ideally that time would only be however long it takes him to dig his own grave.

 

[CRI]

Wtf

Roy Moore Emerges from Self-Imposed Exile to Chat with 12-Year-Old Girl

The candidate for Alabama's Senate race—who's been accused of sexually pursuing teens in his 30s—sat down with Millie March to talk about border security.

Exclusive: Roy Moore campaign distributes “primer” on how to discredit accusers, “fake news” - Vox

 

[krtek a houby]

Trump to visit UK "in the new year" and his retweeting of BF videos was "probably misintepreted" says ambassador

Donald Trump visit to UK expected in new year, says US ambassador

 

[CRI]

Trump to visit UK "in the new year" and his retweeting of BF videos was "probably misintepreted" says ambassador

Donald Trump visit to UK expected in new year, says US ambassador

 

[The Octagon]

Wtf

Roy Moore Emerges from Self-Imposed Exile to Chat with 12-Year-Old Girl


Exclusive: Roy Moore campaign distributes “primer” on how to discredit accusers, “fake news” - Vox

I was sure that was an Onion headline when I first saw it

 

[gosub]

Trump to visit UK "in the new year" and his retweeting of BF videos was "probably misintepreted" says ambassador

Donald Trump visit to UK expected in new year, says US ambassador

"Johnson said the new embassy would need to be dedicated by an American president" . Could we not get Obama to check his diary

 

[DaveCinzano]

Trump’s lawyers call for second special counsel to investigate Russia special counsel

 

[Tankus]

Donald Trump
The people of Alabama will do the right thing. Doug Jones is Pro-Abortion, weak on Crime, Military and Illegal Immigration, Bad for Gun Owners and Veterans and against the WALL. Jones is a Pelosi/Schumer Puppet. Roy Moore will always vote with us. VOTE ROY MOORE!

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand says Trump should resign over sexual harassment allegations. .......

Donald Trump
Lightweight Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, a total flunky for Chuck Schumer and someone who would come to my office “begging” for campaign contributions not so long ago (and would do anything for them), is now in the ring fighting against Trump. Very disloyal to Bill & Crooked-USED!

"and would do anything for them"

just whoaah..

And..Roy Moore ...who's been avoiding interviews for weeks ,does a televised interview with a 12 year old ....mentioned earlier

in yer face plebs

I'm thinking of putting money down on Charles Manson running for next prez

...doesn't matter that hes dead ...

were in the twilight zone

 

[quiet guy]

He really cannot help himself. It's like he's hard wired to make shit statements.

 

[CRI]

The Republicans would vote for a dead Charles Manson. I'm sure they could set aside his character flaws so long as he spouted white supremacist views, talked enough about God and Hellfire and Brimstone . . . oh wait.

Actually, I remember being in the US in 2000 when the State of Missouri elected a dead man to be their senator. So, there's sort of a precedent.