What stupid shit has Trump done today?

[petee]

I can only assume that for many US students history is taught right after when they practice getting hit in the head by a linebacker on the football field.

 

[CRI]

I can only assume that for many US students history is taught right after when they practice getting hit in the head by a linebacker on the football field.

In my day, it wasn't really taught at all. Every year, we started over again with the "Explorers" and by the end, we were lucky if we made it to the US Civil War. Was all very superficial stuff as well, and World History was only an elective you could take for one semester in the last two years of high school. Maybe wasn't the same everywhere, but it was where I grew up.

Incidentally, I have no idea how people who teach Government/Civics do their jobs now. At least in Illinois, it was a legal requirement to pass a test on the US Constitution to graduate from High School. So we spent most of the year memorising stuff for the test. But now that Trump and the GOP continuously shit all over he Constitution, I'm not sure how that would work. It's sort of . . . well, this is what the Constitution says, but that's not what is actually happening . . . and that three equal branches of government with the checks and balances stuff? Nope, that's broken, too.

 

[krtek a houby]

"Americans companies are going to have to be given market access to the NHS, but it's going to be a tremendous NHS, the best NHS you've ever seen. You guys are going to be blown away by how amazing your NHS is. What is an NHS, anyway?"



Trump: NHS must be on the table in US-UK trade talks

Taking back the country and giving it away at the same time.

 

[CRI]

Well now. How fucking surprising. We get Brexit so we have to go begging to the US for a trade deal. And then they say out loud (to get us used to the idea) ‘by the way this must include the NHS’. It’s almost like it was planned. ETA: I’ve never subscribed to the ‘fell down the bog and came back up with a gold watch in his teeth’ type explanation of things.

Well, the Trump Administration set out their goals back in February for any trade agreement with the UK post Brexit, so I'm not sure why anyone is shocked now that the the NHS might be part of that. (I've pulled out the bit below from a post I did on another thread at the time.)

Trump's plan for a new trade agreement

The preamble sets out clearly what the US wants to happen - a quick deal that delivers "substantive results for U.S. consumers, businesses, farmers, ranchers, and workers, consistent with U.S. priorities."

Here's part of the shopping list of what they want to achieve from the "negotiations."

- Remove barriers to importing US food and agricultural products into the UK.
- New, enforceable rules to end "unjustified" trade restrictions or "commercial requirements" (like clear labelling and safety testing).
- US Pharmaceutical companies to have full access to the UK Market (i.e. NHS).
- US companies have the same access to UK government contracts as UK companies do.
- Allow US companies to sue UK firms and the UK government for non-compliance with any of the new "rules."
- Prohibit the UK from adjusting its exchange rates if it could effect the balance of payments or give unfair competitive advantage over US companies.

 

[Ming]

Well, the Trump Administration set out their goals back in February for any trade agreement with the UK post Brexit, so I'm not sure why anyone is shocked now that the the NHS might be part of that. (I've pulled out the bit below from a post I did on another thread at the time.)

Trump's plan for a new trade agreement

The preamble sets out clearly what the US wants to happen - a quick deal that delivers "substantive results for U.S. consumers, businesses, farmers, ranchers, and workers, consistent with U.S. priorities."

Here's part of the shopping list of what they want to achieve from the "negotiations."

- Remove barriers to importing US food and agricultural products into the UK.
- New, enforceable rules to end "unjustified" trade restrictions or "commercial requirements" (like clear labelling and safety testing).
- US Pharmaceutical companies to have full access to the UK Market (i.e. NHS).
- US companies have the same access to UK government contracts as UK companies do.
- Allow US companies to sue UK firms and the UK government for non-compliance with any of the new "rules."
- Prohibit the UK from adjusting its exchange rates if it could effect the balance of payments or give unfair competitive advantage over US companies.

Mark Britnell said it out loud 7 years ago but no one was paying attention.
David Cameron's adviser says health reform is a chance to make big profits

 

[spring-peeper]

...

- Prohibit the UK from adjusting its exchange rates if it could effect the balance of payments or give unfair competitive advantage over US companies.

How would that work?

 

[CRI]

How would that work?

There's a description in the document of a process for Dispute Resolution, but it's pretty skeletal. My guess is if the US or a US company believed the UK had done this, they'd have recourse to this new process, and if the outcome was that the UK had skewed exchange rates, there would be some kind of financial sanction on the UK.

 

[Yossarian]

Taking back the country and giving it away at the same time.

"We send the EU £350 million a week. Let's give it to rich Americans instead."

 

[CRI]

NYT continue to serve as loyal scribes to the court of King Trump.



After getting bludgeoned by comments on Twitter for the above, looks like they deleted and replaced it with the one below, but the Maggie Haberman article is the same fawning bullshit.

 

[krtek a houby]

He's after Bette Middler now

 

[andysays]

Three Chinook helicopters have been circling above Stamford Hill for the past quarter of an hour or so. I hope they haven't lost Trump...

 

[Yossarian]

He's after Bette Middler now

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At least he put "your great president" in quotes - maybe a tiny part of his brain has achieved self-awareness and we'll see more of him sarcastically referring to himself in the third person.

 

[MickiQ]

Three Chinook helicopters have been circling above Stamford Hill for the past quarter of an hour or so. I hope they haven't lost Trump...

Bastards!! they're not leaving him here, he's their president, he's their problem.

 

[editor]

Damning piece in the Washington Post
Outline - Read & annotate without distractions

 

[editor]

He's after Bette Middler now

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When you've got a US president freely describing women as "washed up psychos" from his official account, you know something has gone really wrong with the world.

 

[Jeremiah18.17]

Apparently, chatting to Charlie Windsor, Trump exclaimed that the US has “the cleanest climate”...... Words fail.

 

[CRI]

He's after Bette Middler now

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[CRI]

The milk of human kindness has definitely soured and curdled under Trump.

Trial begins for No More Deaths volunteer who aided migrants - CNN

Warren, a volunteer for the humanitarian aid group No More Deaths, faces three felony charges tied to his arrest on January 17, 2018, in Ajo, Arizona, for helping two undocumented migrants. Warren has pleaded not guilty to one count of conspiracy to transport and harbor the two men and to two counts of harboring undocumented immigrants. He faces up to 20 years in prison.

It's "a difficult, frightening, profound moment for humanitarian workers," said Peg Bowden, a longtime volunteer with the Green Valley/Sahuarita Samaritans who sat in on the trial Wednesday. Bowden helps feed migrants at a soup kitchen in Nogales, Mexico, and teaches English to asylum seekers.

Kuykendall described Warren as a law-abiding good Samaritan whose actions in providing the men with food, water and shelter were "squarely and fully within the law in the midst of a humanitarian crisis in Ajo." He said that No More Deaths is a ministry of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Tucson, and follows long-established written protocols and procedures -- in which Warren was well trained -- to make sure the aid it provides "is effective, responsible and legal."'

"I do think they're making an example of him," said Mark Warren, Scott Warren's father, outside the courtroom. "He's the means by which they mean to send a message."

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Bastards!! they're not leaving him here, he's their president, he's their problem.

I'll give you an extra $2 an hour to continue babysitting him for a while. You could make some serious change here.

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He's having so much fun pretending to be royalty.

 

[andysays]

I'll give you an extra $2 an hour to continue babysitting him for a while. You could make some serious change here.

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He's having so much fun pretending to be royalty.

If, as I was wondering early, he had somehow got lost in the wilds of Northeast London, I was imagining an updated and relocated version of Escape from New York.

Not sure who we'd get for the Kurt Russell role, mind you...

 

[extra dry]

Trump himself has just said there is more support than protest in the streets. The protests are very small and any talk of protest is fake news.

Orwell 1984?

 

[tim]

Orwell 1984?

I think you mean Orville 1984

 

[spring-peeper]

Trump admin ending legal aid, English classes for migrant children in US shelters

The Trump administration told migrant shelters this week to wind down services — such as legal aid, English classes and recreational activity — that are not directly related to children's safety.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said it began instructing grantees this week to begin scaling back or discontinuing awards for activities "that are not directly necessary for the protection of life and safety, including education services, legal services, and recreation."

Federal officials said the administration's refugee office is running out of the necessary funds to deal with a massive influx of unaccompanied minors at the southern border.

"Additional resources are urgently required to meet the humanitarian needs created by this influx — to both sustain critical child welfare and release operations and increase capacity," HHS said.

 

[sleaterkinney]

In Ireland:

 

[Celyn]

He really is amazingly bad. Even if he couldn't care less about that border, he presumably has staff who write it down in simple notes for him, yet he still doesn't do his homework.

 

[stavros]

He equates climate and weather.

 

[Mr.Bishie]

"Don't forget, it used to be called global warming, that wasn't working, then it was called climate change, now it's actually called extreme weather because with extreme weather you can't miss," the president said.

Fuckin Nora

 

[spring-peeper]

"Don't forget, it used to be called global warming, that wasn't working, then it was called climate change, now it's actually called extreme weather because with extreme weather you can't miss," the president said.

Fuckin Nora

So, does that mean he believes in "extreme weather"?

If he does, then does that mean he believes in Global warming?

Very strange man.

 

[Mr.Bishie]

Off the scale batshit.

 

[spring-peeper]

hmmm - reading an article and came across this paragraph -

One is a proposed seawall to stop the Atlantic Ocean from eroding away part of the golf course.

The Trump Organization cited climate change in its application for the permit, according to a Politico story from 2016, saying that sea-level rise and more powerful storms had worsened the threat of erosion. Trump the politician, of course, has questioned idea that climate change is a threat at all - defying the overwhelming scientific consensus, and his own golf course's assessment of its future.

I guess he does believe in climate change


President Trump to stay at Doonbeg, his money-losing golf course threatened by climate change