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PaulK Member Posts: 17822 Joined: Member Rating: 2.2 |
Kennedy is retiring from the Supreme Court.
If there’s still a Republican majority in Congress a moderate conservative Justice will be replaced a hard right winger - chosen more for politics than for anything else.
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PaulK Member Posts: 17822 Joined: Member Rating: 2.2 |
The U.S. opposed a report from the World Health Organisation, in favour of promoting breast feeding as the best way to nourish infants. The U.S. government decided to put the interests of the breast-milk substitute industry ahead of babies’ health.
They even threatened economic sanctions and withdrawing military aid from countries that supported the report. But Russia sponsored the report and the U.S. wouldn’t go that far against them.
Ars Technica
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PaulK Member Posts: 17822 Joined: Member Rating: 2.2 |
Be fair Ringo. Clinton got more votes than Trump.
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PaulK Member Posts: 17822 Joined: Member Rating: 2.2 |
In The Atlantic
I find myself pondering a different question as I watch so many people I have known and admired subordinate their talents and their integrity to Trumpism: How has my political generation of conservatives and Republicans laid itself so intellectually and morally low?
After blaming the Left for 9/11 (because Muslims are so conservative they hate the left)
D’Souza then urged American conservatives to make common cause with Muslims worldwide against gay rights, feminism, and secularism generally.
Yes, as I thought at the time, if the terrorists hate us for our freedom the answer from D’Souza is to give up our freedoms.
...Yet an annoying thing for those who disliked Obama’s politics: He is at the same time a genuinely high-quality personalityintelligent, considerate, dignified, and self-disciplined. Those who hated him were deprived of any rational basis to despise him. Lacking a rational basis, they reverted to irrationality instead. Which is how the Dinesh D’Souza who in 1995 proclaimed the end of racism in America could react to a humorous 2015 photograph of Obama playing with a selfie stick: YOU CAN TAKE THE BOY OUT OF THE GHETTO Watch this vulgar man show his stuff, while America cowers in embarrassment.
And yet Trump somehow isn’t an embarrassment? Oh well, if D’Souza didn’t have double standards he’d probably have no standards at all. And of course there’s the racism - and caste prejudice, too.
At one point, D’Souza acknowledges that he is straying into controversial ground in his harsh assessment of the mentality of black Americans. I have to tread carefully, he says, and offers an analogy from Indian society to clarify his meaning while minimizing offense. The pathetic dependency of African Americans on Johnson’s welfare state, D’Souza writes, reminds him of untouchables in his native India. The untouchables too fell into a kind of collective stupor in which they could hardly imagine an escape from their degraded lot.
...The psychology of aggrievement joined to racial resentment: Perhaps that is the recipe from which Trumpism has been brewed. It’s a dismaying thing to see so many in one’s political generation succumb to it.
There is plenty more in the article - including evidence, and in the linked article by Kevin Kruse has more. And I think Frum may even be understating the problems.
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PaulK Member Posts: 17822 Joined: Member Rating: 2.2 |
I would count an NDA as going beyond the threat of dismissal. The scope of it - extending to Trump and Pence companies - and the fact that it continues after leaving employment - also seems to be unusual and excessive.
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PaulK Member Posts: 17822 Joined: Member Rating: 2.2
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Julius Caesar took control of Rome and ended the Republic to avoid prosecution. Just sayin’
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PaulK Member Posts: 17822 Joined: Member Rating: 2.2 |
It seems that Trump still thinks that building walls is the answer to illegal immigration, without thinking about details like do we even control that land?
Trump urged Spain to 'build a wall' across Sahara, says minister
The border with the Sahara cannot be bigger than our border with Mexico," the President is reported to have said. The US-Mexico border is 1,954 miles (3,145 km) long. The Sahara desert stretches for 3,000 miles. Spain has no sovereignty over the Sahara, but it does possess two small enclaves on the north African coast, Ceuta and Melilla, separated from Morocco by controversial wire fences.
Just daft.
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PaulK Member Posts: 17822 Joined: Member Rating: 2.2 |
As presented in an Opposition to Trump’s Motion to Dismiss.
NY AG Pretty damning - certainly enough to survive dismissal.
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PaulK Member Posts: 17822 Joined: Member Rating: 2.2 |
Trump is a bullshitter, he wants to blame California for the fires, and his base don’t care about the truth. We have ample evidence of that.
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PaulK Member Posts: 17822 Joined: Member Rating: 2.2 |
quote: No, this is a balance of probabilities system. While the evidence against was weak - low quality sources, no idea as to the alleged victim’s identity - I was willing to suspend judgement. That’s changed. Avenatti claims to have exonerating evidence. If he really does then he can produce it, and it can be evaluated. But at the moment the available evidence makes a good case against him.
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PaulK Member Posts: 17822 Joined: Member Rating: 2.2 |
If Elizabeth Warren, often referred to by me as Pocahontas, did this commercial from Bighorn or Wounded Knee instead of her kitchen, with her husband dressed in full Indian garb, it would have been a smash!
Via BBC
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PaulK Member Posts: 17822 Joined: Member Rating: 2.2 |
Even more about Cohen’s work for Trump.
Daily Beast The Wall Street Journal is the source but most of their article is paywalled - or I would have linked there.
Michael Cohen hired an IT firm to rig online polls in favor of Donald Trump ahead of the 2016 election and instructed the company to create the @WomenForCohen Twitter account to laud how sexually attractive he is, The Wall Street Journal reports.
For more fun the IT firm is run by the CIO of Liberty University.
The IT firm doesn’t appear to have been particularly good at the task. Cohen reportedly asked for its help in a January 2014’s CNBC poll to name the country’s top business leaders. RedFinch Solutions founder John Gauger reportedly wrote a computer script to repeatedly vote for Trumpbut was still unable to get him into the top 100 candidates.
It seems that working for Trump - especially when hired by Cohen - doesn’t pay as well as the uninformed might think.
Gauger disclosed the work to the Journal after he received much less money for his efforts than he expected. Gauger said he believed he was due $50,000 for italongside a promise of lucrative work with the president-electbut Cohen reportedly handed him a blue Walmart bag containing between $12,000 and $13,000 in cash and, randomly, a boxing glove that Mr. Cohen said had been worn by a Brazilian mixed-martial-arts fighter.
Cohen denies that part of the story, but he has good reason to deny it if it is true:
Gauger’s disclosure casts a great deal of suspicion on a $50,000 reimbursement Cohen received from Trump and his company for the work by RedFinch, which is detailed in a government document....
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PaulK Member Posts: 17822 Joined: Member Rating: 2.2
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Let us also note that Trump has a reputation for not holding up his end of a deal, if he can get away with it.
He’s already reneged on promises to sign legislation - so giving in may only encourage him to refuse the deal and demand more. Worse, once he has what he wants - funding for the wall - he is liable to go back on any promises he made to get agreement. If Trump were a great - or even competent - negotiator he’d understand that making a deal isn’t about screwing over the other parties. Reputation is important. Screwing people over in one deal will make it harder to get future deals.
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PaulK Member Posts: 17822 Joined: Member Rating: 2.2 |
quote: Of course it is. Why do you think that the Republicans are trying to discourage people from voting ? (Especially poor people and ethnic minority people).
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PaulK Member Posts: 17822 Joined: Member Rating: 2.2 |
To call it grossly slanted would be an understatement.
Dismantling the agencies and regulations that protect the environment is not a good way to ensure “clean air and water for our children” Trump didn’t just withdraw from the Paris Accords- he’s a denialism on climate change, and is trying to encourage the use of coal as fuel.Lowering carbon emissions isn’t something he wants to do. So I don’t see a lot of interest in actually pursuing the “shared goal” here.
quote: The same pattern seems to be seen here. The pursuit of the goal is subordinated to ideology. More guns don’t solve the problem, and could easily create even greater risks. There is no point in talking about shared goals if you are going to put something else ahead of them, if you think that the shared values are ones that should be sacrificed for others. I’m not impressed with the idea that we shouldn’t do more to overcome the racism and the legacy of racism in society either. There are some on the left who go too far, but then there are Nazis and White Supremacists too. And I can’t help thinking that those who go too far seeking the good are at least a little better than those who embrace evil.
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