TRUMP - Just because.....................Naw, I just can't say it!
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You're giving her what she wants Signy. An audience.
Just leave her be. She's been doing fine on her own posting whatever she wants here.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Oh, I pop in every 20 posts or so, but yeah- mostly I let SECOND polish that turd all on her own. Maybe popping in every [random number] of posts is too often. You're probably right.
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"Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor"- William Blake
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Quote:Signym, there is no haystack, but your mental electromagnet has a very weak current flowing through its wires and it can't attract even the largest steel needle ever made. I will make it really easy for you. Can you understand this article: “Insane”: The head of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission on Trump’s plan to undo bank regulation at https://qz.com/903147 ?
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Amidst all of this ghafla there are probably a few important points buried somewhere. But it's like universal surveillance - if you keep making the haystack bigger, finding those needles becomes less and less possible.
Can you understand this other article, same subject: Trump Plans to Gut Dodd-Frank Because His Friends "Just Can't Borrow Money" at
www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/02/trump-plans-gut-dodd-frank-beca
use-his-friends-just-cant-borrow-money ?
There is a following up showing that Trump is lying about his motivations for "protecting" Commercial Bank Loans. It is Raw Data: Commercial Lending Is As High As It's Ever Been
www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/02/raw-data-commercial-lending-hig
h-its-ever-been
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I ask myself why past Presidents were big cheerleaders for the reputation of the USA, but Trump is not? I do believe Trump has a hidden agenda which pops out of his mouth when he is not reading a TelePrompter:
O’Reilly told Trump that Putin is a killer. Trump’s reply: ‘You think our country is so innocent?’
www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/02/04/oreilly-told-t
rump-that-putin-is-a-killer-trumps-reply-you-think-our-countrys-so-innocent/?utm_term=.0345d5ffcea7
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Trump has long been effusive in his praise for Russian President Vladimir Putin, despite criticism from Republicans and Democrats alike.
In an interview with Fox News's Bill O'Reilly, which will air ahead of the Super Bowl on Sunday, Trump doubled down on his “respect” for Putin — even in the face of accusations that Putin and his associates have murdered journalists and dissidents in Russia.
“I do respect him. Well, I respect a lot of people, but that doesn’t mean I’ll get along with them,” Trump told O'Reilly.
O'Reilly pressed on, declaring to the president that “Putin is a killer.”
Unfazed, Trump didn't back away, but rather compared Putin's reputation for extrajudicial killings with the United States'.
“There are a lot of killers. We have a lot of killers,” Trump said. “Well, you think our country is so innocent?”
Trump added that he thinks the United States is “better” getting along with Russia than not.
“If Russia helps us in the fight against ISIS, which is a major fight, and Islamic terrorism all around the world, major fight. That’s a good thing,” Trump said. ISIS is another name for the Islamic State.
It wouldn't be the first time Trump has brushed aside the topic of Putin's political killings.
In a 2015 interview on “Morning Joe,” Trump was pressed on the same issue and gave a similar answer.
“He kills journalists that don't agree with him,” the show's host, Joe Scarborough, pointed out.
“Well, I think that our country does plenty of killing, too, Joe,” Trump said. As recently as this week, a prominent Putin critic was poisoned for the second time.
Russian activist suffers symptoms of poisoning for 2nd time in 2 years
Doug Stanglin , USA TODAY Published 9:17 a.m. ET Feb. 3, 2017
A prominent Russian opposition activist who almost died from an apparent poisoning two years ago was in stable but critical condition Friday after suddenly falling ill during a trip to Moscow.
Vladimir Kara-Murza, a U.S. green card holder with dual British-Russian citizenship, was in Russia promoting a documentary film about Boris Nemtsov, his close friend and Russian opposition leader who was shot and killed only a few hundred yards from the Kremlin in 2015.
Kara-Murza, a journalist who lives in Virginia with his wife, Evgenia, is chairman of the Boris Nemtsov Foundation for Freedom and coordinator of the Open Russia Foundation, which promotes civil society and democracy. He has also testified before Congress on political repression in Russia.
Kara-Murza's condition is similar to 2015 when he almost died from sudden kidney failure in a suspected poisoning in Moscow.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/02/03/russian-activist-felled-2015-su
spected-poisoning-hospitalized-similar-symptoms/97437612/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Fiscal issues could doom Trump's wall along the Texas/Mexico border
Beyond Texas Republican Congressmen's specific local objections to the wall, the fiscal cost looms large.
The $12-$15 billion is a lot of money to spend on what amounts to a pet project for the president.
Meanwhile, the White House is poorly positioned to argue that the wall needs to be deficit-financed because the president rather famously promised that Mexico — rather than America’s children — will pay for the wall.
By the same token, putting together a package of offsetting spending cuts will be very difficult to sell because, again, Trump promised that Mexico will pay for the wall. Insisting on offsetting the cost of the wall with spending cuts elsewhere is a pretty unassailably conservative position — conservatives are supposed to be against spending, after all.
Meanwhile, it’s unlikely red-state Democrats feel particularly pressured to bail Trump out on this, because they can always say that they want what their constituents voted for: Trump’s promise that Mexico will pay for the wall.
Which means that in fiscal terms all roads more or less lead back to Trump’s campaign pledge, which was to make Mexico pay for a border wall. The Trump White House, of course, has no way of making this happen since Trump has rendered himself so politically toxic in Mexico that it would be suicide for any Mexican politician to agree to any deal that could even possibly be construed as Mexico paying for a border wall. This has left the administration flailing, suggesting at one point that broad corporate income tax reform might somehow constitute Mexico paying for the wall.
All of this could be moot, however, since it’s rarely been clear how serious Trump himself is about the wall. Newt Gingrich opined shortly after the election that it was a mere “campaign device.” A lot of the border, in states other than Texas, is already walled or fenced, and Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly just suggested that a “see-through” wall composed of sensors could do the job in Texas.
Which leaves open one possibility: it wouldn’t be very difficult to appropriate some money for some additional solid (not “see-through”) wall construction. That would be enough for Trump to make a visit to a border wall construction site and declare victory — while Republican senators (relieved to have avoided paying $14 billion for a real wall along the entire Texas border) would surely be happy to let Trump have the political win.
www.vox.com/2017/2/5/14499584/senate-republicans-pay-trump-wall
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Trump Has the Whole Country Talking About Terrorist Attacks
Trump doesn't care if lots of people think he's an idiot. He just doesn't have the instinct for shame. What he cares about is getting everybody talking about a big list of terrorist attacks, and he knows that to do that he has to give us all a reason to talk about them. If the price of that is some mockery, that's a trade he's willing to make. Mission accomplished.
See Trump’s Terror List at
www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/02/trump-has-whole-country-talking
-about-terrorist-attacks-tonight
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Quote:You can get some idea of what goes on inside Trump by observing how he spends his time:
Originally posted by G:
I think he has extremely low self esteem issues and tries to cover them up with gold.
www.nytimes.com/2017/02/05/us/politics/trump-white-house-aides-strateg
y.html
Entertainers are shameless. Trump still thinks he's the star of a reality TV show. He cares about his image and his ratings, but that's about it. When it comes to making America great again, he expects his staff to take care of things.
www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/02/donald-trump-unhappy-his-rating
s-arent-better
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Trump demeans a federal judge who challenges him; the next day, without evidence, he accuses the media of hiding illegal voting or acts of terrorism. His lack of respect for institutions and truth pours out so fast, you start to forget how crazy this behavior is for any adult, let alone a president, and just how ugly things will get when we have a real crisis. And crises are baked into this story because of the incoherence of President Trump’s worldview.
He made a series of reckless, unconnected promises, not much longer than tweets, to get elected, and now he’s just checking off each one, without thinking through the linkages among them or anticipating second-order effects.
It is a great way to make America weak — and overstretched — again.
www.nytimes.com/2017/02/08/opinion/connecting-trumps-dots.html
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Yemen Withdraws Permission for U.S. Antiterror Ground Missions because Trump is Incompetent Commander-in-Chief
Angry at the civilian casualties incurred last month in the first commando raid authorized by President Trump, Yemen has withdrawn permission for the United States to run Special Operations ground missions against suspected terror groups in the country, according to American officials.
Grisly photographs of children apparently killed in the crossfire of a 50-minute firefight during the raid caused outrage in Yemen. A member of the Navy’s SEAL Team 6, Chief Petty Officer William Owens, was also killed in the operation.
While the White House continues to insist that the attack was a “success” — a characterization it repeated on Tuesday — the suspension of commando operations is a setback for Mr. Trump, who has made it clear he plans to take a far more aggressive approach against Islamic militants.
It also calls into question whether the Pentagon will receive permission from the president for far more autonomy in selecting and executing its counterterrorism missions in Yemen, which it sought, unsuccessfully, from President Barack Obama in the last months of his presidency.
Trump’s approval of the Jan. 29 raid came over a dinner four nights earlier with his top national security aides, rather than in the kind of rigorous review in the Situation Room that became fairly routine under President George W. Bush and Mr. Obama.
The raid, in which just about everything went wrong, was an early test of Mr. Trump’s national security decision-making . . .
Mr. Trump will soon have to make a decision about the more general request by the Pentagon to allow more of such operations in Yemen without detailed, and often time-consuming, White House review. It is unclear whether Mr. Trump will allow that, or how the series of mishaps that marked his first approval of such an operation may have altered his thinking about the human and political risks of such operations.
www.nytimes.com/2017/02/07/world/middleeast/yemen-special-operations-m
issions.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Shit this thread takes an hour to load. Is it a record?
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Russia parliament votes 380-3 to decriminalize domestic violence
Russia's parliament voted 380-3 on Friday to decriminalize domestic violence in cases where it does not cause "substantial bodily harm" and does not occur more than once a year.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/01/27/russian-parliament-decri
miinalizes-domestic-violence/97129912/
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