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Roughly 3 weeks into Trump as PEOTUS...

His co-author is a real gem also:

"One can only hope that we turn the region into a cauldron, and faster, please. If ever there were a region that richly deserved being cauldronized, it is the Middle East today. If we wage the war effectively, we will bring down the terror regimes in Iraq, Iran, and Syria, and either bring down the Saudi monarchy or force it to abandon its global assembly line to indoctrinate young terrorists.
That's our mission in the war against terror."

"Every ten years or so, the United States needs to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show the world we mean business," which Goldberg remembered Ledeen saying in an early 1990s speech."

He's also the guy who facilitated those little "yellow cake" warning forgeries, which, well, we know the story.
 
Deacfreak07 said:
I hope you're right. I doubt you are. He'll have more robust support from the GOP in 4 years.
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and conversely i hope you're wrong lol. did you have any particular reason you think he'll get enough votes to remain in office, or just a gut feeling?
 
dmcheatw said:
and conversely i hope you're wrong lol. did you have any particular reason you think he'll get enough votes to remain in office, or just a gut feeling?
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Gut feeling. I had a similar gut feeling about him winning the first time. Republicans fall in line, and there are enough rural white Dems that will adore the guy as long as he keeps up the authoritarian bravado.
 
They love their authoritarianism, as long as it's directed towards someone brown. Don't dare try to tell them that their cattle can't graze on government land.
 
Trump-related ‘hate crimes’ against white children omitted from liberal group’s report

A liberal nonprofit group dedicated to combating bigotry left out “hate crimes” committed against white students in a report titled “The Trump Effect: The Impact of the 2016 Presidential Election on Our Nation’s Schools.”

The Southern Poverty Law Center surveyed over 10,000 K-12 teachers after the Nov. 8 U.S. presidential election. The group, working in tandem with the American Federation of Teachers, compiled a list of “hate incidents,” but readers who wanted to know whether white children were also harassed were not given existing data.

The Alabama-based group was recently asked by The New York Post what information it had on the following survey statement: “I have heard derogatory language or slurs about white students.”

The newspaper said an answer to its inquiry proved difficult to come by.

“SPLC initially said it was having a hard time getting the information ‘from the researchers,’” the Post reported Monday. “Pressed, SPLC spokeswoman Kirsten Bokenkamp finally revealed that ‘about 20 percent answered affirmatively to that question.’”

In short, roughly 2,000 educators reported incidents perpetrated against white students.

Other feedback included:

Nine out of 10 educators reported a negative impact on students’ mood and behavior following the election.
Eight in 10 educators reported heightened anxiety on the part of marginalized students.
Four in 10 educators reported derogatory language directed at students of color, Muslims, immigrants and people based on gender or sexual orientation.
Hans Bader, a former Education Department civil rights attorney, told the newspaper that there is a simple reason why relevant information was excluded from SPLC’s final report: bias.

“They left that result out because it would not fit their ideological narrative,” Mr. Bader said. “It was deemed an inconvenient truth.”

The lawyer added that SPLC’s standards for what constitutes a hate crime would not hold up in a court of law, as it includes common rhetoric about contested political issues.

“It is simply ridiculous that SPLC treats ‘build the wall’ as hate rhetoric,” Mr. Bader said.

One anonymous teacher from Michigan told the group that white students were overhead saying, “build the wall; lock her up.” Another anonymous teacher from Indiana heard students tell strangers that President-elect Trump would throw them “back over the wall.”

A panel from the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights responded to SPLC’s report last Friday by calling for increased federal funding for prosecuting hate crimes.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/dec/5/southern-poverty-law-center-omits-trump-related-ha/
 
The FBI should bring in the younger Flynn as a co-conspirator to an act of domestic terrorism. He doesn't have the right to scream fire in a crowded theater. The FBI should also demand the social media companies to give up the names and IP addresses of those who created this lie.

The person who was arrested should be charged with domestic terrorism. What he did is the definition of that charge.
 
There appears to be little question that Dems policies were less appealing to a large section of the electorate than jingoistic racism. Whether that's a problem with the policies or the voters is not as clear.
 
jhmd2000 said:
A: A stunning lack of policies that actually work and appeal to voters.
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It is a huge problem that the Democrats have essentially been captured by the donor class. Accomodating their interests means Dems can't do anything for labor (EFCA failure) and can only fiddle at the margins of certain tax credits. You need a popular front to beat the far right at the ballot box and instead they ran Clinton.
 
MysteryMen said:
There appears to be little question that Dems policies were less appealing to a large section of the electorate than jingoistic racism. Whether that's a problem with the policies or the voters is not as clear.
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It's always easier to blame it on racism than to examine the effectiveness of your policies. Dems may need a new plan as this one is wearing thin.
 
Trump’s Transition Team Is Dirty, and It’s Dark

He isn’t alone. Seventy percent of Trump’s landing team members have some corporate affiliation, according to an analysis by Public Citizen. There is a former lobbyist for Pepsi and agro-giant DuPont on the landing team for the Department of Agriculture. The Department of Justice (DoJ) landing teams are stocked with white-collar lawyers who work primarily to defend corporate clients from DoJ actions. A former vice president for defense contractor Boeing is on the Department of Defense landing team, along with several other people who work in defense contracting or other private military companies.

Trump has an ostensible ban on lobbyists on his transition team, but it applies only to people who have had relevant lobbying activities in the past 12 months. Even that thin prohibition—which doesn’t stop company executives or lobbyists masked as “consultants” from joining—is being brazenly flouted. Several lobbyists are simply de-registering as lobbyists in order to join the transition team.

Take Shawn Krause, who as recently as September was registered as a lobbyist for Quicken Loans, which underwrites a majority of the mortgages backed by the Federal Housing Administration, which is part of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. In any reading of Trump’s own rules, she shouldn’t be allowed to work on the transition team in that area.

Instead, she’s leading the transition at HUD. Her only motion towards lowering this conflict was de-registering as a lobbyist, which still doesn’t satisfy the prohibition against working on a transition area you have lobbied over in the last 12 months.
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So far Trump has saved 1,000 good paying jobs at Christmas, has cancelled unnecessary and extremely expensive new Air Force One planes, and has refused to take a salary. The man has only one goal, to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. And the Hillshills keep trying to tear him down and tell us these are all bad things. Puhhhhllllleeaase!
 
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