StrangeSox

It's amazing how many people who can't pass FBI background checks are working in this White House. This guy would have been handling classified documents, too. Remember how concerned everyone was for about 15 months about the handling of classified information? Just yesterday the White House was praising Porter, and Kelly personally asked him to stay on. The photos his first wife provided to the FBI are awful. https://theintercept.com/2018/02/07/rob-por...use-trump-aide/ He knew full well of the multiple accusations of beating his wives when he made these comments. Orrin Hatch also attacked people reporting on this story yesterday and came to Porter's defense.

QUOTE (Quin @ Feb 7, 2018 -> 12:02 PM) Well, I'm giving Pelosi props. Extremely disappointed in the Senate. If McCain Coons gets a vote in the Senate that seems like a pretty decent if limited bill.

Top Trump aide Rob Porter out after reports of multiple spousal abuse. Serious Adult in the Room John Kelly wanted him to stay.

Complete removal of military spending caps with a partial removal for domestic spending caps and zero DACA protections. Schumer's touting the deal in the Senate while Pelosi's going on Hour 3 of protesting the agreement for abandoning DACA in the House. Ryan will need ~100 votes from Democrats to get anything through because the HFC is going to oppose this agreement.

In a roundabout way he's right, in that if doctors were allowed to prescribe legal marijuana for pain relief, we'd likely never have flooded our country with prescription opioids! I don't know what his mix of dumb vs. racist on this one is. On the one hand, he's absolutely dumb enough to believe that the existence of marijuana somehow leads to pharmacutical companies pushing highly addictive opioids onto doctors who then push them onto patients all while lying about the addictiveness, but on the other hand railing against marijuana means he gets to throw more minorities in jail.

This country isn't going to do anything serious about the actual causes and problems with the opioid crisis anytime soon.

Trump's CFPB is dropping their investigation into Equifax.

Democrats pick up a state house seat in Missouri in a blood red district with a 31 point swing from 2016

Dear Leader is having the Pentagon plan a large scale military parade. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/tru...m=.2fbd132b4a99

If an institution can't be co-opted to strengthen the GOP, it's attacked and delegitimized until it either can be used to support or is rendered irrelevant. Don't worry, though, authoritarianism could never take over in the US.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Feb 5, 2018 -> 12:37 PM) must just be another weird outlier Trump ambassador nominee promoted fringe conspiracy theories on Twitter I mean that's just a couple of GOP Senate candidate Lou Barletta did interview in 2006 with Holocaust-denying publication but it's just an interview from one "hopeful" and not someone with a big public profile who's loved and endorsed by the leader of the GOP who received a nakedly political Presidential pardon?? Arizona Senate candidate Joe Arpaio 'unaware' he granted interview to anti-Semitic publication well okay you're always going to get a few insane conspiracy racists in any administration, right? but that's all there .... Trump nominee for U.N. migration post called Muslims violent, Christians top priority yeah but that's just.. Trump judicial nominee defended ‘first KKK’ in online arguments: report okay okay okay so there are a few... Another Trump appointee resigns after racist comments come to light okay okay a couple of ambassadors but no one New US ambassador to Netherlands regularly made unsubstantiated 'no-go zones' claims, speculated 15% of Muslims could be jihadists at least it's not like the leader of the party and the President of the United States launched his political career with racist birtherism and openly defends white supremacists who murdered a protester after chanting literal Nazi slogans at their free speech white supremacist rally! Oh, right. So weird how the GOP in general and this administration in particular keeps attracting racist conspiracy mongers from the top on down To add to this list: Seb Gorka, Hungarian Nazi supporter and former White House Terrorism "expert," is joining a publication that's printed such great articles as "10 things I hate about Jews" and criticized Charlottesville police for not cracking down on counter protesters in defense of the Nazis. totally a coincidence that you have to play racist Nazi whack-a-mole with so many of these people

Trump and his far right allies, who are controlling the direction of the GOP, are offering DACA in exchange for drastic cuts in legal immigration. A new Quinnipiac poll finds that only 17% of Americans support cutting legal immigration, but that's the starting point for discussions on not deporting hundreds of thousands of people right now. e: here is why they're pushing that plan Trump immigration plan could keep whites in U.S. majority for up to five more years Keep America poorer, whiter, and older.

It's not, unless you routinely reject any criticism of the police or their actions out of hand, no matter how egregious, or you're trying to push a false equivalency that Trump and his allies' political attacks on the FBI and DOJ are the same thing as reporting on police corruption in an active court case.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/06/us/balti...s&smtyp=cur

FEMA tapped Tiffany Brown, an Atlanta entrepreneur with no experience in large-scale disaster relief and at least five canceled government contracts in her past. FEMA awarded her $156 million for the job in Puerto Rico, then this happened FEMA Contract Called for 30 Million Meals for Puerto Ricans. 50,000 Were Delivered.

Politicization of law enforcement and justice is straight out of the authoritarian playbook.

shouldn't that go in the gambling thread /green

Earnings for Apple, Google, and Amazon missed a bit, and those three were some of the bigger drivers of the gains over the last year. Yellen and then the new fed chair both said they expect keep raising rates a bit, meaning the free/extremely-cheap money ride that we've been riding for years is going to slow down. The bond market is picking up a bit in response. Upward pressure on wages is also raising fears of inflation/driving up costs for companies, which will reduce stock values. The Nunes wet fart almost definitely has nothing to do with it. Fears of increasing instability of government funding and debt ceiling may play a part, though.

The Shock Doctrine is real and it is terrible

"Frasier" star John Mahoney http://www.tmz.com/2018/02/05/john-mahoney...d-dies-frasier/

Trump's Department of Labor buried a report that showed their rules changes, which gave employers vastly more control over workers' tips, would result in employers stealing billions of dollars.

Over the weekend, Paul Ryan bragged about a woman who was getting an extra $1.50 in her paychecks thanks to his billionaires tax cut plan. He later deleted the tweet. CBS News tracked the woman down, and she seems to think that Ryan really missed the point of her comment! https://twitter.com/timjhogan/status/960637803699822592

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Feb 5, 2018 -> 02:43 PM) Lol, of course: More lol

Binyamin Appelbaum‏ @BCAppelbaum Sad photo of Wall Street traders reacting as stock market plunges. https://twitter.com/BCAppelbaum/status/960614104552689665