What stupid shit has Trump done today?

[CRI]

House Republicans Just Voted to Eliminate the Only Federal Agency That Makes Sure Voting Machines Can’t Be Hacked

Nothing to see here, I'm sure.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

How many other Americans have slaves who perform unpaid labour in their households? How many other Americans have slaves who perform unpaid labour in their households and then run for president and have primaries in which they label opponent (with long history of massive support for civil rights movement) as racists, claims which are then repeated mindlessly long after they have lost?

I know you meant that rhetorically, but I'll answer it anyway. Unfortunately the use of prison labor is pretty common in state governments as I stated in post 1707, a couple pages back. California, Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Georgia, Florida, Ohio, and Maine use it in the state houses and governor mansions. Almost all other states rent it out to corporations. California even has it own corporation for prison labor. You can buy everything from office furniture to shoes on their website. In Nebraska, they really do make license plates, along with cleaning products, both for sale and for use in the state office buildings.

So, if we compare that list to the list of candidates in the last election:

2016 Presidential Candidates | Facts and Comparison

That means that Govenors John Kasich, Mike Huckabee, Jeb Bush, and Bobby Jindel, likely made use of prison labor. A couple others were senators from states that used prison labor extensively: Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio.

So, oddly, Donald Trump is one of the few candidates in the last election that didn't approve of the use of prison labor. However, his track record on how workers are treated is pretty bad. Its a regular thing for him to stiff workers:

Trump’s DC Hotel Tagged With $5 Million in Unpaid Worker Liens

Keep in mind, his stiffing workers was all part of his business plan, as he's stated himself. American law actually makes it pretty easy to do:

Why U.S. Law Makes It Easy for Donald Trump To Stiff Contractors

My point here? It's to remind everyone of the truly awful list of candidates (and human beings) that we had to choose from in the last election. I picked Sanders out of that list, as one of the people with the least baggage (not no baggage, just the less). There's a lot of work to be done in the US and no one in charge seems to qualify as human, let alone competent to govern.

 

[1%er]

The master of distraction, while the liberal's and the liberal press are shouting TRUMP!!! TWEETS! trump tweets look at what he said, look at his tweets, Trump trump tweet tweet.

In the real world he has announced his energy policy, his travel ban, or much of it, will be introduced next week and his healthcare bill proceeds throught government, but all we hear from the liberal press is look at his tweets!

LOLOLOLO he has them all looking one way while he gets his policies through with almost no debate in the press hahahaha

Trump making comedy great again

 

[CrabbedOne]

The master of distraction, while the liberal's and the liberal press are shouting TRUMP!!! TWEETS! trump tweets look at what he said, look at his tweets, Trump trump tweet tweet.

In the real world he has announced his energy policy, his travel ban, or much of it, will be introduced next week and his healthcare bill proceeds throught government, but all we hear from the liberal press is look at his tweets!

LOLOLOLO he has them all looking one way while he gets his policies through with almost no debate in the press hahahaha

Trump making comedy great again

I'm waiting for him to discover the turd emoji. Then he could start WWIII and nobody in the US would notice.

 

[petee]

LOLOLOLO he has them all looking one way while he gets his policies through with almost no debate in the press hahahaha

and that's what's important, stigginit to the libruls, not the actual content of his policies.

not ripping families apart, not denying million of people health care, not getting muslims murdered, not shoveling taxpayer dollars into his own pocket, all of which are receiving saturation coverage in the press btw (except the last), which is good, and maybe why in fact his policies are being blocked.

you ignorant ballsack.

 

[Casually Red]

and that's what's important, stigginit to the libruls, not the actual content of his policies.

not ripping families apart, not denying million of people health care, not getting muslims murdered, not shoveling taxpayer dollars into his own pocket, all of which are receiving saturation coverage in the press btw (except the last), which is good, and maybe why in fact his policies are being blocked.

you ignorant ballsack.

The point he's making is yet again ..for the umpteenth fucking time...his opponents are going into paroxysms over a crass tweet . He's been doing this over and over again, pressing the same buttons and it works every time .

The liberals are a bunch of hysterical fucking assholes diving for the swoon couch everytime their safe space is dented by a tweet . Maybe wising the fuck up would be a start . But where the fuck do you even start with people who even tolerate jazz hands in their vicinity ?

This asshole won against all expectations . Defied all the polls and all the odds . And not only that his promise to his supporters theyd win so many times theyd get tired of winning is also coming true . Which means ..without a shadow of a doubt...his opponents are even bigger assholes . Maybe not being such massive assholes might be an idea . Maybe not screeching incessantly about hitler, Putin , Russia , Putin ,Mussolini, the Russians , Putin , hitler , Russia , Putin ..and saying something else instead might change what's going on . And maybe change the fucking assholes saying it too . Because there's real delight to be had in watching these hysterical , corrupt assholes being repeatedly trounced by an ill mannered clown . Real schadenfreude involved .

 

[petee]

The point he's making is yet again ..for the umpteenth fucking time...his opponents are going into paroxysms over a crass tweet . He's been doing this over and over again, pressing the same buttons and it works every time .

exactly as i said - it's all about the libruls. that really is what counts.

The liberals are a bunch of hysterical fucking assholes diving for the swoon couch everytime their safe space is dented by a tweet . Maybe wising the fuck up would be a start . But where the fuck do you even start with people who even tolerate jazz hands in their vicinity ?

exactly as i said - it's all about the libruls. that really is what counts.

This asshole won against all expectations . Defied all the polls and all the odds . And not only that his promise to his supporters theyd win so many times theyd get tired of winning is also coming true . Which means ..without a shadow of a doubt...his opponents are even bigger assholes . Maybe not being such massive assholes might be an idea . Maybe not screeching incessantly about hitler, Putin , Russia , Putin ,Mussolini, the Russians , Putin , hitler , Russia , Putin ..and saying something else instead might change what's going on . And maybe change the fucking assholes saying it too . Because there's real delight to be had in watching these hysterical , corrupt assholes being repeatedly trounced by an ill mannered clown . Real schadenfreude involved .

exactly as i said - it's all about the libruls. that really is what counts.

nothing at all to do with the policies and their content.

paroxysms over a crass tweet .

"a crass tweet".
trump has a serious interest in bleeding women. i guess what's important there is that libruls react to it. you say "paroxysms" like it's a bad thing.

 

[CRI]

I know you meant that rhetorically, but I'll answer it anyway. Unfortunately the use of prison labor is pretty common in state governments as I stated in post 1707, a couple pages back. California, Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Georgia, Florida, Ohio, and Maine use it in the state houses and governor mansions. Almost all other states rent it out to corporations. California even has it own corporation for prison labor. You can buy everything from office furniture to shoes on their website. In Nebraska, they really do make license plates, along with cleaning products, both for sale and for use in the state office buildings.

So, if we compare that list to the list of candidates in the last election:

2016 Presidential Candidates | Facts and Comparison

That means that Govenors John Kasich, Mike Huckabee, Jeb Bush, and Bobby Jindel, likely made use of prison labor. A couple others were senators from states that used prison labor extensively: Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio.

So, oddly, Donald Trump is one of the few candidates in the last election that didn't approve of the use of prison labor. However, his track record on how workers are treated is pretty bad. Its a regular thing for him to stiff workers:

Trump’s DC Hotel Tagged With $5 Million in Unpaid Worker Liens

Keep in mind, his stiffing workers was all part of his business plan, as he's stated himself. American law actually makes it pretty easy to do:

Why U.S. Law Makes It Easy for Donald Trump To Stiff Contractors

My point here? It's to remind everyone of the truly awful list of candidates (and human beings) that we had to choose from in the last election. I picked Sanders out of that list, as one of the people with the least baggage (not no baggage, just the less). There's a lot of work to be done in the US and no one in charge seems to qualify as human, let alone competent to govern.

This is down to a clause in the 13th Amendment to the US constitution. "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." This created the opportunity after slavery ended to jail Black people for fake or petty crimes then hire them out as convict labour. As the above shows, it's continued in one form or other since then, becoming quite a growth "industry." A third of Black men will do time compared to 1 in 17 white men and most are imprisoned without being tried, pressured to cop a plea. This also feeds that popular white supremacist stereotype of Black violence, immorality and criminality, which has got a lot of innocent Black people killed.

It would be awesome if these left wing white guys in America took up ending the institutionalised racism of the criminal justice system and exploitation of Black men's labour as a cause, using their racially privileged position in society to get change. But that's not what's happening.

They're not tackling the companies, government departments and elected leaders that continue to benefit from it. They're seem only interested in holding only one person - Hilary Clinton - to account for her part in something that happened 30 years ago. Yes, she gained from racial privilege and a racist system, and that was wrong. But in focusing all their ire on one woman, it shows they don't really give two shits about the racist CJS in America. It's just a meme they can use to trash Black women on social media as "race traitors" for not making the punishment of "Hilary the slave owner" their priority. Not a bit surprised to see lefty wannabe dudebros from outside the US joining in the bashing bash, too.

Interestingly, plenty of British people have slave owners in their own family trees.

That geographic distance made it possible for slavery to be largely airbrushed out of British history, following the Slavery Abolition Act in 1833. Many of us today have a more vivid image of American slavery than we have of life as it was for British-owned slaves on the plantations of the Caribbean. The word slavery is more likely to conjure up images of Alabama cotton fields and whitewashed plantation houses, of Roots, Gone With The Wind and 12 Years A Slave, than images of Jamaica or Barbados in the 18th century. This is not an accident.

The history of British slavery has been buried. The thousands of British families who grew rich on the slave trade, or from the sale of slave-produced sugar, in the 17th and 18th centuries, brushed those uncomfortable chapters of their dynastic stories under the carpet. Today, across the country, heritage plaques on Georgian townhouses describe former slave traders as “West India merchants”, while slave owners are hidden behind the equally euphemistic term “West India planter”. Thousands of biographies written in celebration of notable 17th and 18th-century Britons have reduced their ownership of human beings to the footnotes, or else expunged such unpleasant details altogether.

The Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 formally freed 800,000 Africans who were then the legal property of Britain’s slave owners. What is less well known is that the same act contained a provision for the financial compensation of the owners of those slaves, by the British taxpayer, for the loss of their “property”. The compensation commission was the government body established to evaluate the claims of the slave owners and administer the distribution of the £20m the government had set aside to pay them off. That sum represented 40% of the total government expenditure for 1834. It is the modern equivalent of between £16bn and £17bn.

The compensation of Britain’s 46,000 slave owners was the largest bailout in British history until the bailout of the banks in 2009. Not only did the slaves receive nothing, under another clause of the act they were compelled to provide 45 hours of unpaid labour each week for their former masters, for a further four years after their supposed liberation. In effect, the enslaved paid part of the bill for their own manumission.

Slave ownership, it appears, was far more common than has previously been presumed. Many of these middle-class slave owners had just a few slaves, possessed no land in the Caribbean and rented their slaves out to landowners, in work gangs.These bit-players were home county vicars, iron manufacturers from the Midlands and lots and lots of widows. About 40% of the slave owners living in the colonies were women. Then, as now, women tended to outlive their husbands and simply inherited human property through their partner’s wills.

The geographic spread of the slave owners who were resident in Britain in 1834 was almost as unexpected as the gender breakdown. Slavery was once thought of as an activity largely limited to the ports from which the ships of the triangular trade set sail; Bristol, London, Liverpool and Glasgow. Yet there were slave owners across the country, from Cornwall to the Orkneys. In proportion to population, the highest rates of slave ownership are found in Scotland.

You can even search names of your ancestors to find out how many slaves they owned and how much they were compensated when their slaves were freed. G'wan, have a look for the roots of those cheques Grandma wrote to help tide you over at college, or Grandpa's help with that deposit on your first flat.

 

[CRI]

State officials refuse to turn over voter roll data to Trump election panel

State officials from Virginia, California and Kentucky said Thursday that they will refuse a request for voter roll data from President Trump's commission on election integrity.

Earlier Thursday, it was reported that the commission sent letters to all 50 states asking for voters' names, birthdays, the last four digits of their Social Security numbers and their voting history dating back to 2006.

Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) said in a statement that he has “no intention” of fulfilling the request, defending the fairness of his state's elections. He also blasted the commission in his statement, saying it was based on the "false notion" of widespread voter fraud in the November presidential election.

“At best this commission was set up as a pretext to validate Donald Trump’s alternative election facts, and at worst is a tool to commit large-scale voter suppression,” McAuliffe stated.

The letters requesting this confidential, sensitive data about voters, suggested it could be sent via email - no mention of encryption or special handling of any kind info that's pretty fucking sensitive, that frankly, they have no business acquiring anyhow.

 

[CrabbedOne]

On Politico Trump further disrupts Obamacare repeal efforts

Just three days after running a widely praised meeting among GOP senators devoted to repealing Obamacare, President Donald Trump threw Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's already ailing bill into further chaos Friday.

Trump, who has previously said that he would prefer Obamacare be repealed and replaced at the same time, reversed course Friday morning, and began echoing conservative senators who want to take up a 2015 bill that would have gutted Obamacare without providing an immediate replacement.
...

Donald Trump: treachery in a fat suit.

 

[Ming]

The master of distraction, while the liberal's and the liberal press are shouting TRUMP!!! TWEETS! trump tweets look at what he said, look at his tweets, Trump trump tweet tweet.

In the real world he has announced his energy policy, his travel ban, or much of it, will be introduced next week and his healthcare bill proceeds throught government, but all we hear from the liberal press is look at his tweets!

LOLOLOLO he has them all looking one way while he gets his policies through with almost no debate in the press hahahaha

Trump making comedy great again

To repeat my previous 2 questions you haven't answered. Who would you like as POTUS and what does your '1%er' monicker refer to? Bearing in mind you've criticized other people for not answering questions (which they subsequently did). C'mon! Let's let the magic of the marketplace for ideas decide!!! Be open and up front and let the strength of your position win the day!!!

 

[phillm]

Can't be long now before some 'mussie' burns down the Capitol.

 

[CRI]

State officials refuse to turn over voter roll data to Trump election panel





The letters requesting this confidential, sensitive data about voters, suggested it could be sent via email - no mention of encryption or special handling of any kind info that's pretty fucking sensitive, that frankly, they have no business acquiring anyhow.

Hoseman's a Republican as well.

 

[ohmyliver]

I'm seeing a lot of noise about something big news wise going to drop in the near future. From people who have been fairly sober about things. i.e. not Louise omgtrumprussiasourcestellmeclickthoughtomyblogformoreunsubstantiateddramaticstuff Mensch but people like Benjamin Wittes of Lawfare.

I'm wondering if the tweets from Trump loosely (and his supporters like Hannity) saying 'But Hillary colluded with the Democrat Party against Saunders' have something to do with it.

I also wonder if the WSJ article about the (now recently dead) GOP operative who was an associate with Flynn trying to contact hackers to hack Hillary's emails, whilst on the surface a bit of a 'if/might/could' dud is actually designed to sort of set the scene, rather than be a big revelation.

I'm quite sleep deprived at the moment, so it could be my brain reading too much into it.

 

[CrabbedOne]

How this for a divided America.

In Willamette Week Multnomah County Republican Party Approves Oath Keepers and Three Percenters as Private Security

...
WW reported last week that Buchal has been fundraising by warning of "threats of Leftist violence" making it difficult for Republicans to hold events in Portland.

His last fundraising letter repeated his plan to hire Oath Keepers as security guards. “Organized bands of masked thugs who call conservatives fascists or Nazis are rising rapidly within the city,” he wrote.​

...

Portland has had some trouble lately but they're taking the piss.

In Willamette Week Art Depicting A Crucified Trump Submerged in Urine Will Be Unveiled In Portland

...
"I want the unveiling to be a catharsis for us," he says. "Not another reason to express anger."
...

No word about security at the naked bike ride.

 

[CRI]

DID TRUMP JUST BEGIN LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR “MASS VOTER PURGING”?

Former Justice Department officials and advocates say yes. The administration says it’s just looking for data.

You'd have to be pretty stupid to not figure out what this is about.

But plenty of his supporters think Clinton rigged the election, so. . . Oh, and some members here it seems, too.

 

[CRI]

Just in case anyone's not figured this out yet.

 

[TomUS]

How this for a divided America.

In Willamette Week Multnomah County Republican Party Approves Oath Keepers and Three Percenters as Private Security
Portland has had some trouble lately but they're taking the piss.

In Willamette Week Art Depicting A Crucified Trump Submerged in Urine Will Be Unveiled In Portland
No word about security at the naked bike ride.

The coming 4th of July has apparently pushed the Repubs over the edge. They don't need right wing militia types to protect them in Portland. The cops are very experienced at keeping opposing demos and protestors from going at each other. And they usually come down most brutally on liberal/left groups. An example from occupy a few years back......


Nobody protests the naked bike ride.

 

[DotCommunist]

. “Organized bands of masked thugs who call conservatives fascists or Nazis are rising rapidly within the city,"

so you counter the accusation by legitimising your own brownshirts. Joined up thinking ftw

 

[8den]

GOP Activist Who Sought Clinton Emails Cited Trump Campaign Officials

And independent verification of the story.

The Time I Got Recruited to Collude with the Russians

 

[DotCommunist]

It would be awesome if these left wing white guys in America took up ending the institutionalised racism of the criminal justice system and exploitation of Black men's labour as a cause, using their racially privileged position in society to get change. But that's not what's happening.

Take Action - The New Jim Crow

think before you C+P.

 

[ohmyliver]

GOP Activist Who Sought Clinton Emails Cited Trump Campaign Officials

And independent verification of the story.

The Time I Got Recruited to Collude with the Russians

I think that there's more to come, it's interesting that it's almost like an incremental step forwards from Thurs/Friday's story.

 

[TomUS]

. “Organized bands of masked thugs who call conservatives fascists or Nazis are rising rapidly within the city,"

so you counter the accusation by legitimising your own brownshirts. Joined up thinking ftw

You call peaceful occupy protesters brownshirts and quote the head of the county Republican party from his fundraising letter in which he speaks of "standing in support of Western civilization." You talk like a right winger.

 

[CRI]

Take Action - The New Jim Crow

think before you C+P.

It's great that some folk on the left are taking this up as an issue, but that wasn't what I was talking about if you read the post.

I was talking about white left wing dudes in America lifting one example to diss Clinton, but worse, to slam African American women as race traitors for not likewise condemning Clinton.

But, if you must. #NotAllWhiteLeftWingGuys

 

[CRI]

You call peaceful occupy protesters brownshirts and quote the head of the county Republican party from his fundraising letter in which he speaks of "standing in support of Western civilization." You talk like a right winger.

TBH, It's getting hard to tell sometimes.

 

[J Ed]

World of their own these two.

 

[DotCommunist]

You call peaceful occupy protesters brownshirts and quote the head of the county Republican party from his fundraising letter in which he speaks of "standing in support of Western civilization." You talk like a right winger.

no, I was saying that for the state to endorse militia nutjobs is like enabling brownshirts or friekorps by giving them the states blessing. See?

 

[DotCommunist]

World of their own these two.

twilight zone really. Helen Lewis would get on with CRI I recon.

 

[TomUS]

no, I was saying that for the state to endorse militia nutjobs is like enabling brownshirts or friekorps by giving them the states blessing. See?

Ho did the state in Portland endorse militia nutjobs?

 

[DotCommunist]

Ho did the state in Portland endorse militia nutjobs?

in your own link. OK its not the entire state legislature but voices like his gaining ground is legitimacy of a kind. Certainly such mouthings will encourage those nuts 'who will rid me of this troublesome priest'