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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2019 23:43:26 GMT
Kyle Griffin...
”Immigrants housed in a federal detention center in Texas were fed frozen sandwiches, cold burritos and potato chips, and detained children and young mothers have complained of hunger to visiting attorneys, according to Bloomberg.”
There is absolutely no excuse for this. The military is down there and they know how to set up mess tends to feed hundreds, or they use to any way. And there is surplus food that could be sent down to these camps. Isn’t that what was going into the boxes they were going to give those who are on SNAP instead of cash?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2019 23:46:22 GMT
Unbelievable...
trump...
”After some very important meetings, including my meeting with President Xi of China, I will be leaving Japan for South Korea (with President Moon). While there, if Chairman Kim of North Korea sees this, I would meet him at the Border/DMZ just to shake his hand and say Hello(?)!”
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Post by lucyg on Jun 29, 2019 0:10:41 GMT
Oh God, I think I’m going to be sick. Diplomacy via Twitter.
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Jun 29, 2019 2:18:33 GMT
Oh God, I think I’m going to be sick. Diplomacy via Twitter. Genuine question: How are the Twitter communications being archived for history's sake? I'm imagining White House historians screenshotting each tweet and having it printed on archival paper.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jun 29, 2019 2:40:12 GMT
I'm imagining White House historians screenshotting each tweet and having it printed on archival paper. Hopefully! Much has already vanished!
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Post by Merge on Jun 29, 2019 11:59:03 GMT
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Jun 29, 2019 12:34:15 GMT
What an absolute, narcissistic shit show! It's a good thing that our government has such a huge surplus of funds to support turning a beloved, unifying tradition into Trump 2020 campaign trail fodder. Oh, wait....
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Post by Deleted on Jun 29, 2019 12:55:41 GMT
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Jun 29, 2019 13:28:28 GMT
Just from a safety standpoint, isnt offering to cross the DMZ a terrible idea from a U.S. President? I feel like all of his secret service personnel choked on their tea all at once, setting a new world record for group spit take. NYT link to article
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jun 29, 2019 13:28:42 GMT
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!
OH wait, the tickets are free but you have to call the WH for them..... But but.............. How will you get to your seats.... Grid lock?? Metro..?? Arlington Memorial Bridge will be CLOSED ALL DAY!!They don't even have the emergency plans in place....We are talking only a few days...They have a permit issued by Washington DC!!
Can we send him to Mars, NOW!!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 29, 2019 13:48:43 GMT
If only angry white men would be as angry about pain and misery as they are about homosexuality and diversity, what a world this could be:
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jun 29, 2019 13:52:54 GMT
If only angry white men would be as angry about pain and misery as they are about homosexuality and diversity, what a world this could be: I saw that video the other day and she kept right on reading, YAY!!
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Post by smginaz Suzy on Jun 29, 2019 14:47:44 GMT
Oh God, I think I’m going to be sick. Diplomacy via Twitter. Genuine question: How are the Twitter communications being archived for history's sake? I'm imagining White House historians screenshotting each tweet and having it printed on archival paper. Already done by The Daily Show/Trevor Noah and the Presidential Twitter Library goes on tour periodically. I think it’s actually in DC now.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 29, 2019 14:50:55 GMT
Dumber than dirt.. You just want to stand up and scream at him..”Stop being so damn stupid!”
Washington Post..
“Trump’s ignorance of basic political terms is on full display overseas”
“Liberal democracy appears increasingly in the balance around the Western world, but the president of the United States doesn’t seem to even know what it is. Neither does he seem to grasp what “busing” means.
President Trump held a lengthy news conference Saturday in Osaka, Japan, during which he displayed his apparent ignorance of some very basic political terms and historical concepts.
When asked about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s comments saying Western-style liberalism was “obsolete,” Trump apparently thought this term literally referred to the western United States and Americans liberals.
Here’s the exchange (key parts bolded):
NEW YORK TIMES’S PETER BAKER: His comments to the Financial Times right before arriving here was that Western-style liberalism is obsolete. I know you probably --
TRUMP: Well, I mean he may feel that way. He’s sees what’s going on, I guess, if you look at what’s happening in Los Angeles, where it’s so sad to look, and what’s happening in San Francisco and a couple of other cities, which are run by an extraordinary group of liberal people. I don’t know what they’re thinking, but he does see things that are happening in the United States that would probably preclude him from saying how wonderful it is. At the same time, he congratulated me, as every other leader of every other country did for what we’ve done economically, because we probably have the strongest economy we’ve ever had, and that’s a real positive. But I’m very embarrassed by what I see in some of our cities, where the politicians are either afraid to do something about it, or they think it’s votes or I don’t know what. Peter, I don’t know what they’re thinking. But when you look at Los Angeles, when you look at San Francisco, when you look at some o the other cities -- and not a lot, not a lot -- but you don’t want it to spread. And at a certain point, I think the federal government maybe has to get involved. We can’t let that continue to happen to our cities.
Democratic liberalism, of course, does not refer to the western United States, but rather the Western hemisphere. And liberalism is a political theory that values the freedom of the individual. That term has come to be associated with left-leaning American politicians and political activists, but some right-leaning political thinkers still claim the term as their own.
Broadly speaking, democratic liberalism has been the leading political ideology across the western world since World War II. Of late, though, populist movements across Europe have gained power, leading to questions about how long liberal democracies can survive. Putin’s comments were clearly about that, but Trump doesn’t appear to have processed this very significant development on the world stage.
That wasn’t his only flub on a very basic political term, though. In another portion of the news conference, he was asked about an exchange in Thursday night’s portion of the first Democratic presidential debate over busing. Trump, yet again, didn’t seem to understand what the term meant:
NABC NEWS’S JONATHAN KARL: I’m sure you saw the exchange between Joe Biden and Kamala Harris on the issue of federal busing -- federally mandated busing. Biden thought that was a bad policy; he tried to stop it. Kamala Harris said it was an important part of desegregation, including in her own experience. Where do you stand on that issue of federally mandated busing?
TRUMP: First of all, before we get into that, I thought that she was given too much credit. ... And as far as that, I will tell you in about four weeks, because we’re coming out with a certain policy that’s going to be very interesting and very surprising, I think, to a lot of people. Jennifer, do you have a question?
So Trump is going to come out with a policy on federally mandated busing ... in 2019? After that odd answer and given Trump’s apparent desire to quickly move on from the issue, NBC News’s Kristen Welker followed up on it later:
MWELKER: I just wanted to follow up on the question about busing. Do you see it as a viable way of integrating schools. Does that relate to the policy that you’re --
TRUMP: Well, that’s something that they’ve done for a long period of time. You know, there aren’t that many ways you’re going to get people to schools. So this is something that’s been done. In some cases, it’s been done with a hammer instead of a velvet glove. And, you know, that’s part of it.. But this has been certainly a thing that’s been used over the -- I think if Vice President Biden had answered the question somewhat differently, it would have been a different result. Because they really did hit him hard on that one. But it is certainly a primary method of getting people to schools.
WELKER: And does it relate to the policy that you’re going to unveil that you just floated?
TRUMP: It relates to everything we’re doing. And you’ll be hearing about it over the next couple of months.
“A primary method of getting people to schools.” Trump apparently believes busing refers the federal government forcing local school districts to provide children with transportation. What’s most amazing about these answers is that not only was this issue the focus after Thursday’s debate, but also that Karl prefaced his question by explaining the term. Trump still couldn’t do anything with that.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 29, 2019 15:20:10 GMT
The Atlantic...
“If You Want, I’ll Go On’: Trump’s Rambling News Conference”
“The president defended Vladimir Putin and Mohammed bin Salman while airing his grievances with Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, and the Democratic Party.”
For those of you who didn’t get to see President Donald Trump’s news conference early Saturday, let’s recap what he said: Former Secretary of State John Kerry broke the law in talking to Iran about its nuclear program. Jimmy Carter was a terrible president. Russian President Vladimir Putin says he didn’t interfere in the 2016 elections, and, come on, how many times are you going to push the guy on that point? Vast numbers of illegal immigrants may soon be deported from the United States. And, circling back to Putin, the Russian president kind of makes sense when he says that Western-style liberalism is dead, at least when you consider the sorry state of a couple of Democratic-run cities in California.
That’s by no means a comprehensive list. At one point in the hour-and-15-minute news conference in Japan, Trump squinted at the roomful of reporters with their hands raised and asked if they’d had enough. Did they want him to stop or keep going? Watching from home at 3 a.m., I didn’t get a vote. But I have to confess: If my colleagues in Japan had opted to pack it in, I wouldn’t have been inconsolable. Speaking in a low monotone at the Imperial Hotel Osaka, Trump seemed to be pushing the outer limits of how much news the bloodstream can safely absorb.
After the press conference, Trump boarded Air Force One for a trip to Seoul, South Korea. He has dangled the possibility of a meeting with the North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un, at the demilitarized zone between the two countries. He tweeted about the plan Friday night, and noted at the news conference that Kim reads his tweets and that North Korea is open to the idea (CNN chyron: “Trump says Kim Jong Un follows his Twitter feed.”). It is unclear if Kim has a Twitter account—and if he does whether it’s under his own name.
Negotiations over North Korea’s nuclear program appear stalled. Indeed, North Korea’s stockpile of nuclear-weapons material has likely grown since Trump last year sought to roll back the country’s weapons program through personal diplomacy.
Trump walked out of a summit meeting with Kim in February as talks broke down. If they do meet this weekend, Trump said, it would be a quick hello and a handshake. He said he’d be willing to cross the DMZ and see Kim in North Korean territory. “I feel very comfortable doing that,” he said, following a blitz of meetings over the past two days with Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping, and other foreign counterparts.
Trump said he and Xi made progress in settling a trade dispute that has shaken financial markets. He said he’ll hold off on imposing additional tariffs on Chinese goods, while China has agreed to buy more U.S. farm products. “It doesn’t mean it’s going to be a deal, but they would like to make a deal, and if we could make a deal it would be a very historic event. We’ve never had a deal with China. We’ve had tremendous [trade] deficits.” The president says he believes that large trade deficits are bad for a country’s economy—a view not shared by many mainstream economists.
Trump was pressed on whether he raised difficult subjects with a pair of autocratic leaders whose affections he deems important: Putin and Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi crown prince. Before his meeting with Putin at the G20 conference in Osaka, reporters had asked Trump whether he would tell the Russian leader not to interfere in the 2020 elections, as U.S. intelligence agencies believe happened in 2016 . Trump smiled and wagged his finger at Putin: “Don’t meddle in the election, please,” he said. At the press conference, Trump said that he and Putin “did discuss it a little bit after that.”
He added, though, “He denies it totally. How many times can you get somebody to deny something? He has in the past denied it. He’s denied it also publicly.”
A reporter asked the president about an interview Putin gave the Financial Times, in which the Russian leader cast pluralistic, liberal societies as outmoded.
Trump seemed to misunderstand the question, though, interpreting the word liberal in an American political context. Putin, he said, “sees what’s going on” in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and other U.S. cities “run by an extraordinary group of liberal people.” He went on to say that Putin “does see things that are happening in the United States that would probably preclude him from saying how wonderful it is.”
Trump said that he confronted the Saudi prince about the murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi. A United Nations report released earlier this month found evidence that Salman and other senior Saudi officials were liable for the murder.
“I asked him what was happening,” Trump said of his meeting with Salman. He said that the prince was “very angry about” the murder and updated Trump on efforts to prosecute those responsible. “I did mention it to him very strongly,” he said. But he also stressed the importance of the alliance with the kingdom, saying that Saudi purchases are important to the U.S. economy. Then he parlayed a question about Khashoggi’s death into an attack on his erstwhile opponent in the 2016 presidential election, Hillary Clinton. He said he wouldn’t comment on a CIA assessment that Salman ordered the killing because it involves classified intelligence. In a reference to Clinton’s use of a personal email account when she dealt with classified material as secretary of state, Trump said that he’s empowered to declassify information, “unlike Hillary Clinton.”
She decided to just give it out,” he said.
The FBI investigated Clinton’s use of a personal email server in 2016 and concluded that while she’d been “extremely careless” in her practices, her actions did not merit criminal charges.
While Trump was away at the G20 Summit, the Democratic presidential candidates held a pair of debates in Miami. Trump said he has been following the kerfuffle involving the Democratic front-runner, Joe Biden. At the debate Thursday night, Senator Kamala Harris of California skewered Biden over his past opposition to busing as a means of integrating public schools. Trump has been harshly critical of Biden, whom campaign aides see as the Democrats’ strongest candidate. Yet in the news conference, Trump talked about Biden with uncharacteristic sympathy. He said that Harris had gotten “too much credit” and that Biden “was hit harder than he should have been hit.”
Biden’s eloquence is no match for “Winston Churchill,” Trump said, but in fairness to him Harris’s attack seemed precooked.
As the news conference played out, Trump seemed in no hurry for it to end. His next stop was Seoul, but as he told reporters, Air Force One doesn’t take off without him. He had one concern: that the press might report he held the spotlight too long. “If you want, I’ll go on,” he said.
On he went.”
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Post by Deleted on Jun 29, 2019 15:25:36 GMT
MSNBC...
”President Trump says he's "extremely angry" about Khashoggi killing, but says "nobody so far has pointed directly a finger" at Saudi Crown Prince bin Salman.
In Nov, CIA concluded bin Salman ordered the killing.
Last week, UN report found "credible evidence" he could be liable.”
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jun 29, 2019 16:54:16 GMT
Peter, I don’t know what they’re thinking. But when you look at Los Angeles, when you look at San Francisco, when you look at some o the other cities -- and not a lot, not a lot -- but you don’t want it to spread. And at a certain point, I think the federal government maybe has to get involved. We can’t let that continue to happen to our cities. And how is he planning on involving the federal government?!?!
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jun 29, 2019 16:57:10 GMT
In Nov, CIA concluded bin Salman ordered the killing. Last week, UN report found "credible evidence" he could be liable.” You know he doesn't read!! Does't believe our intellegence people!
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Post by DEX on Jun 29, 2019 17:17:23 GMT
I am so embarrassed. I think I will tell people I am from Canada. Holy Moly.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 29, 2019 17:22:58 GMT
Peter, I don’t know what they’re thinking. But when you look at Los Angeles, when you look at San Francisco, when you look at some o the other cities -- and not a lot, not a lot -- but you don’t want it to spread. And at a certain point, I think the federal government maybe has to get involved. We can’t let that continue to happen to our cities. And how is he planning on involving the federal government?!?! What dimwit donnie doesn’t understand , besides what liberalism means in the context of the question asked, is that these two cities along with Silicon Valley play a big part in powering California’s economy which is the 5th largest in the world. A state who’s economy help soften the blow from the Great Recession for the entire country. In other words, as bad as the effects were to this country during the Great Recession, it would have been worse if it hadn’t been for California’s economy. At least that is what I read. But California, LA, & SF are his enemy in his tiny weeny little brain because they dare criticize him and so he threatens to strike back by somehow using the Federal Government against the state and cities. This is the guy that people claim will be re-elected if Democrats don’t listen to what people who voted for trump have to say. Do you know how insane that sounds?
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Post by redhead32 on Jun 29, 2019 22:24:25 GMT
This tweet ...
Not a Booker fan, but I like that he is standing up for another candidate.
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Jun 30, 2019 0:27:04 GMT
This tweet ... Not a Booker fan, but I like that he is standing up for another candidate. Don Jr's sentiments are vile. In any other presidency, this tweet alone would cause a scandal. This is just another day ending in "y."
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Post by lucyg on Jun 30, 2019 2:04:58 GMT
Forget the tweets. Don Jr. is vile.
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Post by Skellinton on Jun 30, 2019 3:08:56 GMT
Forget the tweets. Don Jr. is vile. That is way to generous. He is the lowest of low. He is scum. He is an asshole. He is a piece of shit. I hate him, can you tell? Not just for crap like this (which is plenty of reason) but for the murder of animals he does with his trophy hunting. I don’t wish ill or harm on many people, but I wouldn’t be sad to hear he ended up like the poachers who get eaten by the animals they are trying to murder.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jun 30, 2019 4:09:35 GMT
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe presented President Trump with a colorful map Friday meant to explain Japanese investments in the U.S., Axios reported Friday. Trump and Abe met this week at the Group of 20 summit in Osaka, Japan, to discuss an array of topics, including the president’s gripes about an imbalance in the trade relationship between Washington and Tokyo. New York Times chief White House correspondent Peter Baker tweeted a photo of the map Thursday. The chart, titled “Japan has five additional investments in just one month” in big red letters, underscores how foreign leaders approach negotiations with Trump, believing that visual aids could help further their causes. The tactic appeared to work, with the president referring to the map when speaking to reporters after the meeting with Abe. “I appreciate the fact that you're sending many automobile companies into Michigan and Ohio and Pennsylvania and North Carolina — a lot of our states,” Trump said. “They're building magnificent plants.” Reports have emerged that Trump is not inclined to read long briefing documents before meetings and instead prefers to visualize policies. European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker reportedly used colorful cards with simple explanations last year to discuss trade policies with Trump. thehill.com/policy/international/asia-pacific/451028-japan-gave-trump-a-colorful-map-to-explain-us-investments
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jun 30, 2019 4:41:47 GMT
12:40 am EDT CBS News. (1:40 pm So Korea time) Trump will meet Kim Jong Un at DMZ, within 2 hours. Will go across border with no qualms.
ETA: it will be covered live on CNN and MSNBC... Maybe other stations too.... I'm not going to make it..............
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Post by birdgate on Jun 30, 2019 4:57:40 GMT
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe presented President Trump with a colorful map Friday meant to explain Japanese investments in the U.S., Axios reported Friday. Trump and Abe met this week at the Group of 20 summit in Osaka, Japan, to discuss an array of topics, including the president’s gripes about an imbalance in the trade relationship between Washington and Tokyo. New York Times chief White House correspondent Peter Baker tweeted a photo of the map Thursday. The chart, titled “Japan has five additional investments in just one month” in big red letters, underscores how foreign leaders approach negotiations with Trump, believing that visual aids could help further their causes. The tactic appeared to work, with the president referring to the map when speaking to reporters after the meeting with Abe. “I appreciate the fact that you're sending many automobile companies into Michigan and Ohio and Pennsylvania and North Carolina — a lot of our states,” Trump said. “They're building magnificent plants.” Reports have emerged that Trump is not inclined to read long briefing documents before meetings and instead prefers to visualize policies. European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker reportedly used colorful cards with simple explanations last year to discuss trade policies with Trump. thehill.com/policy/international/asia-pacific/451028-japan-gave-trump-a-colorful-map-to-explain-us-investmentsOMG! That is priceless! I would have given him a small box of crayons to go with it too.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jun 30, 2019 5:08:18 GMT
OMG! That is priceless! I would have given him a small box of crayons to go with it too. The article will take you to the twitter account and some of the comments on there are suggesting that he should have gotten crayons too........... There were also comments that a Mitsubishi plant closed in California and some of those people were moved to Tennessee, so they were not all new jobs....
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Post by birdgate on Jun 30, 2019 5:16:31 GMT
Got to start dog whistling your way to another presidency! I clearly remember the consistent birtherism polls that had republicans in the high seventies believing Obama wasn't an American. Not all of them were that stupid. They just like being ride or die tribal assholes. And they have nerve to wonder why they're called racist.
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Post by birdgate on Jun 30, 2019 5:17:59 GMT
OMG! That is priceless! I would have given him a small box of crayons to go with it too. The article will take you to the twitter account and some of the comments on there are suggesting that he should have gotten crayons too........... There were also comments that a Mitsubishi plant closed in California and some of those people were moved to Tennessee, so they were not all new jobs.... I got to go check it out!
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