StrangeSox

Yeah, the best part of that list is that it starts with an editorial, not a reporter/news, and ends with NO COLLUSION! ranting. Just look at what happened with the second example. Brian Ross mistakenly reported that Flynn had been directed by Trump to contact Russians during the campaign rather than during the transition. That's a big mistake! There's a huge difference between those two things! But the error was caught and corrected, Brian Ross was suspended for a month and he'll no longer be reporting on any Trump stories. There was accountability there. There's no evidence that the initial incorrect report was made knowingly and intentionally. There is something to be said about media consolidation, the death of local and independent papers, TV and radio stations, and that fewer and fewer corporations control a larger and larger share of how and where we get our information. There are problems with the media, with reporting, with who to trust and why. But a serial liar who shouts "FAKE NEWS!" at everything he doesn't like and who routinely threatens to sue media outlets and would love to suppress freedom of the press isn't the right guy to be calling it out.

Humana will share the wealth from tax cut with new incentive pay, boosted minimum wage (they're also laying off 5% of their workforce)

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jan 16, 2018 -> 09:14 AM) And DOJ/DHS just issued a "report" getting on the "STOP IMMIGRANTS TO STOP TERRORISM" train: Funny thing about that methodology, though. They specifically don't count domestic terrorism for *some reason* (it's mostly white people), and they count people who committed or planned attacks overseas and were extradited to the US for trial as *immigrants*. This 'report' was crafted to reach a "immigrants are bad and scary and we must ban them" conclusion. The White House is now spreading this deliberately misleading xenophobic propaganda

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy met with birther movement activists in his office in 2013 Trump is a symptom, not the disease

Nearly all members of National Park Service advisory panel resign in frustration

This is allegedly the text of the bipartisan DACA agreement at least as of the 11th Pathway to Citizenship: 12 years up to 2 years of credit for time with DACA Dreamers with CPRS are not eligible for federal means-tested benefits Must have entered the U.S. by June 15, 2012 Bar for convictions of specified crimes, which cannot be waived in any circumstances; INA criminal bars can only be waived on a case-by-case basis, for humanitarian purposes or when in the public interest; the Secretary must submit quarterly reports to Congress on the number of waiver requests and how many were granted. Have satisfied any Federal tax liability accrued since receiving work authorization under DACA, with an option to enroll in a payment plan. Border Security $1.591B for Border Planning, Design and Construction $1.1238 for Tactical Infrastructure; Southwest Border Surveillance Technology; Other Technology, Assets, and Equipment; and Border Patrol Agent Retention and Relocation, and Hiring Improvements Additional Border Security Measures: • Appropriate $15M to fund CBP drug screening under the INTERDICT Act. • Border Access Roads (Section 6 of Sen. Flake's Border Security and Deferred Action Recipient Relief Act) • CBP Hiring and Retention Incentives (relevant sections of Sen. Flake's CBP HiRe Act) • CBP Oversight Measures, such as: o Rescue Beacons with 9-1-1 Relays (Rep. McCaul's Border Security for America Act; Rep. Hurd's SMART Act) o More Investigative Personnel (Rep. McSally's amendment to the Build America's Trust Act) o Body-Worn Cameras with Privacy Protections (Rep. Espaillat's ICE and CBP Body Camera Accountability Act) Elimination of the Diversity Visa Lottery/Visa Allocation Shift Eliminate the Diversity Visa Lottery. • Reallocate 50% of the annual visas to nationals of "priority countries" who are underrepresented - with a new merit- based preference for individual visa applicants from these countries. • Reallocate 50% of the annual visas to recipients of Temporary Protected Status, who will maintain legal status and work authorization while awaiting visas. o After the TPS backlog is cleared, all of the annual visas will be allocated to nationals of priority countries. Family Reunification/Migration Prohibit any parent who illegally brought into the country a child who receives status under the Dream Act from being sponsored by any of their children. In exchange. Grant 3-year renewable legal status to the parents of Dreamers. • Legal status would come with work authorization. • This would not include a pathway to citizenship. LPRs can sponsor nuclear family, i.e., spouses and unmarried children under the age of 21. • This would affect 26,266 visas per year, which would instead be used for the nuclear family.

A lot of this stuff ends up going under the radar thanks to regular racist tirades or displays of total incompetence, but the corruption and ethical breaches in the Trump Administration are really unprecedented. THE MOST UNETHICAL PRESIDENCY: YEAR ONE

And DOJ/DHS just issued a "report" getting on the "STOP IMMIGRANTS TO STOP TERRORISM" train: Funny thing about that methodology, though. They specifically don't count domestic terrorism for *some reason* (it's mostly white people), and they count people who committed or planned attacks overseas and were extradited to the US for trial as *immigrants*. This 'report' was crafted to reach a "immigrants are bad and scary and we must ban them" conclusion.

Inside the tense, profane White House meeting on immigration A good look inside last week's "s***hole" meeting and how Trump went from "I'll sign whatever you put in front of me" to "no black countries" in a matter of days or even hours thanks to far right Republicans. Reminder that Kelly started the purging while running DHS early last year and has said he wants to allow in "between 0 and 1" refugees, i.e. he largely agrees with Trump's racist immigration policies. Republicans lying to cover for Trump's racism in order to push hardline anti-immigration policies, and pretending that a difference between "s***house" and "s***hole" even matters without addressing the underlying racism guiding Trump's policies and preferences rather than the 'vulgar' words used to express his ideas.

and if the court tosses a single part of Bevin's proposal, he's just going to end the entire Medicaid expansion. https://twitter.com/RepJohnYarmuth/status/951937566282059776 It's such a shame because Kentucky was one of if not the biggest success stories out of the ACA, and the people there really liked Kynect. But then they voted in Bevin who campaigned on ending it all and were shocked and disappointed when he started doing just that.

The Trump administration is allowing states to impose work requirements for Medicaid, and Kentucky was the first to jump onboard. This is just needlessly cruel.

oh and he paid a porn star hush money a month before the election

President Not Racist Genius Brains

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 12, 2018 -> 10:13 AM) They're not going to. They learned their lesson when they dared criticize him for things like saying a judge with a Mexican ancestor couldn't adequately decide his case back in the campaign and then the voters elected him anyway. Enough of the Republican base fully agrees with this statement that they'll just keep their mouths shut, wait for it to pass, and then move on to funding more immigration enforcement. Look at this strong response from Republican Martha McSally: The problem isn't that he said "s***," it's the racism underlying it and the context it was in. I'm just going to assume that every non-answer like this is tacit admission that they too say things like this behind closed doors and agree with Trump's views on white nationalism until they give a reason to think otherwise.

Something I've not seen and admittedly haven't tried to dig into, but does whatever DACA fix is being proposed only cover people here currently or would it apply to future undocumented minors as well?

QUOTE (bmags @ Jan 12, 2018 -> 10:39 AM) Well heres a question: - Do you make a deal with a racist president to protect that status of some vulnerable minorities at the cost of setting policy with the worst person possible OR - do you cut off talks with a racist president and risk cruel uprooting and splitting of families on a mass scale What is the cost of that deal? Do you make a deal to protect DACA today but that also reduces legal immigration for racist reasons while also funding a border wall? What do you do about the cruel uprooting and splitting of families on a mass scale that's going to happen regardless of DACA?

oh no all political problems weren't solved instantly I guess that means nothing matters and people don't actually have different responses to things for sometimes confusing reasons like I'm not disagreeing with you that things are still bad, Republicans in general have succumbed to Trumpism, that lots of people will never recognize Trump for who he is or that racism is even a real thing in 2018 QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 12, 2018 -> 10:36 AM) I can imagine worse ones. Like sitting around a table while your 70 year old relative spouts all sorts of racist stuff about countries he's never visi.....oh. cut supporters of white supremacy out of your life

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 12, 2018 -> 10:24 AM) There was an equal or bigger widespread response to his description of "Very fine people" chanting "Blood and soil" and "Jews will not replace us". And a couple of months latter, Democrats won big victories in elections across the country and a month after that won a Senate seat in Alabama. edit: my original thoughts were more about reactions to this statement than any sort of political "mattering." I get and share the anger and disbelief at people, including many in the media, who still pretend like he's a normal if belligerent President even though he's openly defended neonazis and regularly attacks non-white people and has ICE and CBP doing some truly horrendous things. Regardless of whether there should have been a stronger reaction in the past, there does seem to be a strong one now.

The AIDS story was published on 12/24, so a lot of people probably never even saw it, even among the heavily informed. Why did the allegations against Weinstein unleash a tidal wave? Why do some police shootings of innocent black people result in large protests and others don't? It's maybe an interesting sociological question but that doesn't mean there can't be a difference in the response and reaction among the public. There still seems to be more of a widespread emotional response to this one. I don't know why this one and not other ones, but I'm not going to dismiss it. It won't instantly "change" things, but it does play a roll in the continuing story of the Trump Presidency and opposition to it.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 12, 2018 -> 09:57 AM) Because nothing he's done or said so far has made that obvious or apparent. There's a reason why Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell, the people every Republican House and Senate voter have supported indirectly, have issued no statement yet. The Republicans who were present in the meeting have had various responses, none of which even attempt to address his comments: https://twitter.com/AlexNBCNews/status/951846421896073216 QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 12, 2018 -> 10:07 AM) No, but the idea that "THIS" will somehow shake something loose...not going to happen. If you didn't understand who this person is before now, it's because you deliberately don't want to. We all know he's a racist and he's instituting policies to support his white nationalism. There's still something emotionally visceral when certain statements are made.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jan 12, 2018 -> 10:00 AM) No it's not. It's kind of like releasing their taxes. This guy can not be healthy, and certainly not as healthy as was claimed by his doctor. Presidents undergo annual physicals. It's not weird.

Trump just denied his ‘s***hole’ comment. In the process, he confirmed the worst. Trumpism is white nationalism, and the GOP is happy to go along with it.

My Haitian-born coworker was not too happy when the news broke yesterday, and reminded us that Trump also said they all had AIDS. I still remember lostfan's post the day after the election, that he knew that his country hates him and people like him. Dismiss that if you want, but that's the message a lot of people take away from everything we've seen during Trump's rise.

Video of Durbin's statements: https://twitter.com/MPuccinelliCBS2/status/...820541488398336 Explicitly calls Trump's comments racist and says "you've seen the comments in the press, I've not read one of them that's inaccurate"