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Post by nashville11 on Jan 28, 2017 23:43:28 GMT
Anne, love your quote from Tip O'Neil. Guess he wasn't a fan of alternative facts.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2017 23:52:59 GMT
How can people continue to deny the harm being done? How can people continue to support the man? Do they not see what I see? Stirling Greenlee January 25 at 4:24pm · We are 4 days in. Credit to April Mitchell, from a News and Guts comment. (Dan Rather's Media Group) * On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the DOJ’s Violence Against Women programs. * On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the National Endowment for the Arts. * On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the National Endowment for the Humanities. * On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. * On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Minority Business Development Agency. * On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Economic Development Administration. * On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the International Trade Administration. * On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Manufacturing Extension Partnership. * On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services. * On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Legal Services Corporation. * On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Civil Rights Division of the DOJ. * On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Environmental and Natural Resources Division of the DOJ. * On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Overseas Private Investment Corporation. * On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. * On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Office of Electricity Deliverability and Energy Reliability. * On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. * On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Office of Fossil Energy. * On January 20th, 2017, DT ordered all regulatory powers of all federal agencies frozen. * On January 20th, 2017, DT ordered the National Parks Service to stop using social media after RTing factual, side by side photos of the crowds for the 2009 and 2017 inaugurations. * On January 20th, 2017, roughly 230 protestors were arrested in DC and face unprecedented felony riot charges. Among them were legal observers, journalists, and medics. * On January 20th, 2017, a member of the International Workers of the World was shot in the stomach at an anti-fascist protest in Seattle. He remains in critical condition. * On January 21st, 2017, DT brought a group of 40 cheerleaders to a meeting with the CIA to cheer for him during a speech that consisted almost entirely of framing himself as the victim of dishonest press. * On January 21st, 2017, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer held a press conference largely to attack the press for accurately reporting the size of attendance at the inaugural festivities, saying that the inauguration had the largest audience of any in history, “period.” * On January 22nd, 2017, White House advisor Kellyann Conway defended Spicer’s lies as “alternative facts” on national television news. * On January 22nd, 2017, DT appeared to blow a kiss to director James Comey during a meeting with the FBI, and then opened his arms in a gesture of strange, paternal affection, before hugging him with a pat on the back. * On January 23rd, 2017, DT reinstated the global gag order, which defunds international organizations that even mention abortion as a medical option. * On January 23rd, 2017, Spicer said that the US will not tolerate China’s expansion onto islands in the South China Sea, essentially threatening war with China. * On January 23rd, 2017, DT repeated the lie that 3-5 million people voted “illegally” thus costing him the popular vote. * On January 23rd, 2017, it was announced that the man who shot the anti-fascist protester in Seattle was released without charges, despite turning himself in. * On January 24th, 2017, Spicer reiterated the lie that 3-5 million people voted “illegally” thus costing DT the popular vote. * On January 24th, 2017, DT tweeted a picture from his personal Twitter account of a photo he says depicts the crowd at his inauguration and will hang in the White House press room. The photo is of the 2009 inauguration of 44th President Barack Obama, and is curiously dated January 21st, 2017, the day AFTER the inauguration and the day of the Women’s March, the largest inauguration related protest in history. * On January 24th, 2017, the EPA was ordered to stop communicating with the public through social media or the press and to freeze all grants and contracts. * On January 24th, 2017, the USDA was ordered to stop communicating with the public through social media or the press and to stop publishing any papers or research. All communication with the press would also have to be authorized and vetted by the White House. * On January 24th, 2017, HR7, a bill that would prohibit federal funding not only to abortion service providers, but to any insurance coverage, including Medicaid, that provides abortion coverage, went to the floor of the House for a vote. * On January 24th, 2017, DT ordered the resumption of construction on the Dakota Access Pipeline, while the North Dakota state congress considers a bill that would legalize hitting and killing protestors with cars if they are on roadways. * On January 24th, 2017, it was discovered that police officers had used confiscated cell phones to search the emails and messages of the 230 demonstrators now facing felony riot charges for protesting on January 20th, including lawyers and journalists whose email accounts contain privileged information of clients and sources. How much of a chance do we need to give? Seriously. Tell me.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2017 0:28:50 GMT
Dan Rather 22 mins · Today I shed a tear for the country I know and love, the one I believe still beats in the heart of most of its citizens. The United States became the most powerful nation in the history of mankind not merely on the basis is its fearsome military, as lethal and well trained as that may be. It wasn't solely based on its unprecedented economic engine, as dynamic and far-reaching as that may be. America's greatness was forged by a Constitutional compact of grand and universal ideals that the country has tried to live up to ever since. For generations, we have been an imperfect but vital beacon of freedom to a world too often wandering and failing in moral confusion. But that ultimate strength has dimmed considerably in light of the recent actions on immigration from the new President Donald Trump. We are turning around desperate refugees. We are singling out men, women, and children on the basis of their faith - and we are doing all of this with a randomness and capriciousness that defies reason. A colleague of mine used the term "heartless" to describe so much ot the President's executive actions. Sadly, I found it an apt and dispiriting diagnosis—especially when faced with the results of his executive order on immigration. For over the years, I have seen that our greatest American leaders extol empathy rather than condemnation. They have known that in a complicated world, it is best to make policy choices with a scalpel - not a hacksaw. Sometimes, when our national security is threatened at the level of World War II, all-out conflict is the only recourse. But those instances are by far the exception. From Vietnam, to the Iraq War, from Japanese internment camps to the centuries-long persecution on the basis of race and ethnicity that almost toppled our democratic experiment, broad strokes channeling our least compassionate and most jingoistic impulses have always made us weaker rather than stronger. Today, in the wake of his one-man decision to wreck and reverse immigration policy so suddenly, there is chaos and confusion mixed with heartbreak and fear. A well thought-out, measured overhaul of immigration policy, with organized-in-advance measures to implement that is one thing—and one that perhaps a majority of Americans would support, But this mess, created overnight, is quite another. With this, we have embolden our enemies who want to see nothing else than to compete in a world of moral relativism. In the Cold War, our struggles over civil rights fed into the propaganda of the Soviet Union - as our new actions fuel the extremism Mr. Trump claims to be attacking. Too many people during the campaign explained away Mr. Trump's irresponsible rhetoric as metaphors and euphemisms. These are not concepts he understands. Serious foreign policy experts know that this is a boon for our enemies and undermines our democratic principles. Even former Vice President Dick Chaney said it "goes against everything we stand for and believe in.” But too many Republican leaders in Congress, even ones that denounced the Muslim ban during the campaign, stand by cheering it now. History will mark their names, as it marks this moment. This will be challenged in the courts, who may very well strike it down. But damage, real damage, has been done to our global image. I believe Vladimir Putin is smiling, and would-be global powers like China see a vacuum forming that they will be eager to fill. I still remain optimistic that the vast majority of American people will recoil and speak out at this unwise policy. But whether we like it or not, as the detentions and impediments already springing up make all too real, this is the stated de facto policy of the United States today. Every day that it goes on, every day the chaos, confusion and heartbreak deepens, America loses more pieces of its soul and standing in the world.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2017 2:15:19 GMT
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Post by nashville11 on Jan 29, 2017 3:33:55 GMT
As I listened to Tweety's speech at the CIA, I couldn't understand why there was cheers and applause in the background. Now we know the real answer. He and Mike Pence brought along their own personal supporters, and filled the front rows of the audience with them. Now we know the lies don't only just spontaneously come out of his mouth. His staff fully orchestrates them for him as well. Anything to try and keep his followers bamboozled for as long as possible.
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Post by pbnj on Jan 29, 2017 11:54:21 GMT
I just have no words this morning.
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Post by pbnj on Jan 29, 2017 12:53:22 GMT
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Post by nashville11 on Jan 29, 2017 14:12:38 GMT
Oh my gosh, pbnj it just gets worse all the time. This is truly terrifying. Bannon's clumsy hand is already all over this ill thought out new immigration policy. Now he's getting even more power! No one in the WH administration seems to have any clue about how to go about implementing anything (even if it were a good policy, of which there have been none), thus the total chaos yesterday. I think most people would agree that we need to vet people who come into the country, but there are already rules in place for that. Instead of making us more safe, Tweety is making us far less safe and fanning the flames of hatred for us. I have a very good friend from Iran. She's very afraid, and one thing she fears is that if her elderly mother back in Iran were to get very ill or to pass away that she could not go back for fear of not being allowed back into the country. I don't know if that would be the case or not, but these orders that he carelessly throws out have real consequences. Neither he nor anyone in his administration seems to realize that, or care for that matter. Has anyone seen anything about how they chose these seven countries? I haven't. Did they blindfold Tweety and throw a dart at a map of the Middle East? Why wasn't Saudi Arabia included, but of course, they weren't included because of the OIL. I can't "fix" Tweety, but I am about to go set up my new computer. Wish me luck . . .
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2017 15:46:15 GMT
"First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me."
I think the countries were some that the Obama/Congress identified for different reasons, but not meant for what DT is using this list for today. Also some countries left off are countries Trump has business interests. Go figure.
Did anyone see KAC from yesterday. . I heard it on the news, trying to find a written quote of it. What a snarky biohech ( translate to different word) ...I think she is as much a while nationalist as Steve Bannon.
All I can say is McCain & Graham better get there GOP Congress rounded up & stop Trump & Bannon & Flynn... This isn't scary anymore it's dangerous.
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Post by pbnj on Jan 29, 2017 15:54:57 GMT
Has anyone seen anything about how they chose these seven countries? I haven't. Did they blindfold Tweety and throw a dart at a map of the Middle East? Why wasn't Saudi Arabia included, but of course, they weren't included because of the OIL. Tweety chose countries he has no business connection with. But countries that actually have a history of terrorism are not on his list --SaudiArabia,Pakistan, Afghanistan, Turkey... He has BUSINESS in those countries. Now where is the conflict of interest?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2017 15:56:16 GMT
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Post by yogamama007 on Jan 29, 2017 17:26:42 GMT
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Post by nashville11 on Jan 29, 2017 17:38:44 GMT
As for KAC, she'll say anything for anyone who is willing to pay her. Do you remember very early in the campaign, before she joined the Trump team but was often a panelist on CNN, back then while she was pro-Republican she was not very pro-Trump. That quickly changed when she got the chance to join his team. Then she was suddenly solidly and vocally behind him. Her voice simply goes to the highest bidder, and she's not at all picky about who or what that is. In my book, I label her scum.
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Post by nashville11 on Jan 29, 2017 17:40:08 GMT
Anne, I saw Murphy on CNN yesterday. You should be proud of him. Unfortunately TN doesn't have a single Senator or Representative in whom I can take pride.
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Post by pbnj on Jan 29, 2017 18:10:52 GMT
As for KAC, she'll say anything for anyone who is willing to pay her. Do you remember very early in the campaign, before she joined the Trump team but was often a panelist on CNN, back then while she was pro-Republican she was not very pro-Trump. That quickly changed when she got the chance to join his team. Then she was suddenly solidly and vocally behind him. Her voice simply goes to the highest bidder, and she's not at all picky about who or what that is. In my book, I label her scum. She is paid scum.... "Small price to pay" ?? addictinginfo.org/2017/01/29/watch-kellyanne-conway-says-worldwide-chaos-is-a-small-price-to-pay-for-banning-muslims/
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