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Post by dewryce on Aug 17, 2019 14:08:29 GMT
I am exactly 0% surprised. And I’d like to see current numbers about the percentage of state department employee jobs that are currently filled.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2019 14:28:15 GMT
trump’s world..
”Biggest crowd EVER, according to Arena people. Thousands outside trying to get in. Place was packed! Radical Left Dems & their Partner, LameStream Media, saying Arena empty. Check out pictures. Fake News. The Enemy of the People!”
The reality...
Schooley...
”Whoever ultimately runs against him just has to constantly point out he’s playing small city arenas, afraid to play the big venues like football stadiums. Goad him into 2/3rds empty 80,000 seat venues. He’ll fire his whole campaign staff.”
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2019 14:47:50 GMT
"Workers at a massive new Shell plant in Pennsylvania had to attend a speech by President Donald Trump there earlier this week to be paid — and were ordered not to protest, reported the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Attendance was not mandatory for thousands of union workers at Royal Dutch Shell’s petrochemical plant north of Pittsburgh, but they had to forfeit pay for the day if they skipped, according to attendance and comportment information obtained by the newspaper. “Your attendance is not mandatory,” one manager told workers, summarizing a memo that Shell sent to union leaders, the Post-Gazette reported, but only those who showed up at 7 a.m., scanned their ID cards and prepared to stand for hours through lunch would be paid. “No scan, no pay,” workers were warned. In addition, workers who decided not to listen to the president’s speech reportedly would not be paid overtime rates routinely built in for extra time during the week.... Trump took full credit for the plant in his speech, even though it was initially approved in June 2016, during the Obama administration, CNN reported. “It was the Trump administration that made it possible,“ Trump told workers. “ No one else. Without us, you would never have been able to do this.”" He's disgusting. Every day. www.yahoo.com/huffpost/pennsylvania-shell-workers-only-paid-if-attended-trump-speech-044953729.html
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Aug 17, 2019 15:30:16 GMT
Attendance was not mandatory for thousands of union workers at Royal Dutch Shell’s petrochemical plant north of Pittsburgh, but they had to forfeit pay for the day if they skipped, according to attendance and comportment information obtained by the newspaper. Some one did a report on this last night. I thought that they said they would be paid for the day but the hours would not be counted toward the 40 hours worked for overtime pay. It became a campaign rally NOT as the pre-planned official visit. His campaign SHOULD be billed for the costs! As best as I know, his campaign still has NOT paid El Paso $500,000 owed for his February rally! I doubt they will ever see it...
ETA: what I am reading today says they were not going to be paid... Apologies....
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Aug 17, 2019 22:15:51 GMT
#BeBest ......................................... Stephen Miller, so proud!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOT ** Some White House aides reportedly joined in an effort to try to limit undocumented immigrants' access to public benefits, including the public school system.Bloomberg reported Saturday that Trump aide Stephen Miller led an effort beginning in 2017 that sought out ways to limit public school enrollment among undocumented immigrants, and pressed Cabinet officials as well as the White House Domestic Policy Council to aid his efforts. The plan was eventually abandoned, with Bloomberg reporting that Miller was informed that his efforts would run afoul of a Supreme Court decision guaranteeing access to public schools to all residents of the U.S. including undocumented immigrants. Miller's efforts reportedly got as far as the crafting of a guidance memo to be sent by the Department of Education (DOE) informing states that they could refuse public school access to undocumented students. The reported memo was never released, and a spokesperson for DOE told Bloomberg that Education Secretary Betsy DeVos "would never consider it.” The White House did not immediately return a request for comment from The Hill on Saturday. Frank Sharry, director of the immigrant advocacy group America's Voice, ripped the reported effort. “Such a radical policy change would be unlawful, unacceptable and un-American,” Sharry told Bloomberg. “The notion that we should punish little kids who go to school and pledge allegiance to our flag because Trump and Miller want to make America white again is incredibly cruel, dark and sinister.” Bloomberg cited an unnamed senior administration official who broadly pushed back on accounts of Miller's initiative as coming from disgruntled bureaucrats. The official also emphasized the "strain" undocumented immigrants put on social services, the outlet reported. ** thehill.com/homenews/administration/457815-trump-aides-pushed-for-states-ability-to-block-migrant-kids-from
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Aug 17, 2019 22:25:31 GMT
Can he fire her? I surely hope not! Finally someone says, put up or shut up!!! The chairwoman of the Federal Election Commission (FEC) is demanding that President Trump either provide evidence to support his claim that he would have won New Hampshire's electoral votes in 2016 if not for voter fraud, or cease mentioning the claim.Chairwoman Ellen Weintraub, a Democrat, wrote in a letter to the president reported by CNN that Trump risks "undermining the faith" of the American electorate in the fairness of U.S. elections. "Your voter-fraud allegations run the risk of undermining that faith," she wrote, according to CNN. "To put in terms a former casino operator should understand," Weintraub added, "there comes a time when you need to lay your cards on the table or fold."Weintraub's letter to the White House came a day after the president told supporters at a New Hampshire campaign rally that it wasn't their "fault" that he had lost the state in 2016, while insinuating that the state had been "taken" from his campaign. ** thehill.com/homenews/administration/457814-democratic-fec-chair-calls-on-trump-to-provide-evidence-of-nh-voter
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2019 14:44:43 GMT
And he’s off...
trump..
”The Failing New York Times, in one of the most devastating portrayals of bad journalism in history, got caught by a leaker that they are shifting from their Phony Russian Collusion Narrative (the Mueller Report & his testimony were a total disaster), to a Racism Witch Hunt.....”
”.....”Journalism” has reached a new low in the history of our Country. It is nothing more than an evil propaganda machine for the Democrat Party. The reporting is so false, biased and evil that it has now become a very sick joke...But the public is aware! #CROOKEDJOURNALISM”
“With all that this Administration has accomplished, think what my Poll Numbers would be if we had an honest Media, which we do not!”
“MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2019 15:32:36 GMT
Joe Walsh...
”Trump will lose in 2020 because the vast majority of America is tired of him. Tired of his bullshit. Tired of his drama. Just plain tired of him.”
Prompted this From George Conway..
“Yep. Even many supporters find him exhausting. One person I know who had never before said anything bad about him was watching him blather nonsensically to the press last month, and in exasperation finally yelled at the TV, “Oh, God, shut up, get on the helicopter already!”
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2019 17:00:56 GMT
Yet another way trump is 🎶 #MAGA 🎶
From AP...
“Trump wields sanctions hammer; experts wonder to what end”
“WASHINGTON (AP) — Call it the diplomacy of coercion.
The Trump administration is aggressively pursuing economic sanctions as a primary foreign policy tool to an extent unseen in decades, or perhaps ever. Many are questioning the results even as officials insist the penalties are achieving their aims.
Since taking office in January 2017, President Donald Trump has used an array of new and existing sanctions against Iran, North Korea and others. His Treasury Department, which oversees economic sanctions, has targeted thousands of entities with asset freezes and business bans. The State Department has been similarly enthusiastic about imposing its own penalties: travel bans on foreign government officials and others for human rights abuses and corruption in countries from the Americas to the Middle East, Africa and Asia.
At the same time, the administration is trying to reduce greatly the amount of U.S. foreign assistance, notably cutting money to Latin America and the Palestinians. The White House budget office is making plans to return billions of dollars in congressionally approved but unspent dollars to the Treasury. A similar effort was rejected by Congress last year.
The combination of more sticks and fewer carrots has created a disconnection between leveraging the might of America’s economic power and effectively projecting it, according to experts who fear the administration is relying too much on coercion at the expense of cooperation.
It also has caused significant tensions with American allies, especially in Europe, where experts say a kind of sanctions fatigue may be setting in. The decision this past week by the British territory of Gibraltar to release, over U.S. objections, an Iranian oil tanker that it seized for sanctions violations could be a case in point.
It’s rare for a week to go by without the administration announcing new sanctions.
On Thursday, the administration said it would rescind the visas of any crew aboard the Iranian tanker in Gibraltar. On Wednesday, Sudan’s former intelligence chief received a travel ban. Last week, the entire Venezuelan government was hit. More than 2,600 people, companies, ships and planes have been targeted so far since Trump took office.
“The daily pace is intense,” the treasury undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, Sigal Mandelker, said recently.
She and proponents of the administration’s foreign policy say sanctions are working and have denied Iran and its proxies hundreds of millions, if not billions, in dollars in revenue used for destabilizing activity in the Middle East and beyond. And, they note, the U.S. approach does not involve the vastly more expensive option of military action.
Overuse of economic warfare is certainly a better alternative to the overuse of military warfare,” said Mark Dubowitz, the chief executive of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. He has advocated for even broader sanctions.
Mandelker, whose office is in charge of economic sanctions, says sanctions alone “rarely, if ever, comprise the entire solution to a national security threat or human rights or corruption crisis.” They must, she said in a speech to the Center for Strategic and International Studies, be accompanied by other action to push U.S. national interests.
Experts say the administration has not shown great vision in adopting strategies that do not rely on sanctions or separating punitive foreign policy decisions from purely trade issues, such as the spat with the Chinese over tariffs. While Trump has been reluctant to punish Russia for meddling in the 2016 presidential election, his administration has not relented on sanctions for Moscow’s actions in Ukraine and human rights issues.
“President Trump has completely conflated economic sanctions and commercial policy,” said Gary Haufbauer, a senior fellow with the Peterson Institute for International Economics who was a senior treasury official during the Carter administration. He said that while that approach might work with countries such as Mexico and Guatemala over immigration, trade measures and sanctions against China and Russia do not.
“I don’t see that the U.S. is having any positive effect on Chinese behavior, or for that matter, Russia,” Haufbauer said. He said this was a “pivot point” in world economic relations, with the U.S. losing its leadership role and opening up the possibility for another nation to pick up the mantle. Asian countries, he said, are deferring to China’s perspective on the U.S., and American alliances with European nations are being weakened by Trump’s reliance on sanctions.
“The U.S., through its trade policy, has managed to isolate itself,” he said.
Although many administrations have relied on sanctions, Trump has used them with zeal at a cost to the U.S., said Liz Rosenberg, the director of the Energy, Economics and Security Program at the Center for a New American Security. She was a senior adviser to one of Mandelker’s predecessors at Treasury during the Obama administration.
Where the U.S. once coordinated with Europeans on issues such as counterterrorism and nuclear nonproliferation, Trump’s sanctions are often one-sided and do not prioritize partnerships, Rosenberg said.
“This is a brand new reality that has never been seen in modern times,” she said. “There are those in Europe who feel not just harmed by the United States, but also targeted by the United States.”
The result is that many countries are less eager, or in fact wary, of signing up for American initiatives, particularly when they see the U.S. retreating in areas such as foreign aid. The administration is expected to present a plan soon to cut as much as $4 billion in economic and development aid, drawing wide bipartisan rebukes from Capitol Hill. A similar effort was turned aside in 2018, but there are fears it may to come to pass this year.
“Once again, the Trump administration is hell bent on slashing programs that lift millions out of poverty, turn the tide against deadly diseases, strengthen our economy, and make America safer,” said Tom Hart, the North America executive director for The ONE Campaign, which supports development assistance. “Not only does this undermine U.S. leadership around the world, it subverts Congress’ power of the purse.”
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Aug 18, 2019 17:24:00 GMT
How many read it?!?!?!?! Robert Mueller's report on his investigation into Russia's election interference and the Trump campaign has been downloaded hundreds of millions of times, according to newly released federal documents.
Data obtained by Politico under a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request indicated the more than 400-page report was downloaded nearly 800 million times between its initial release in April and early July.More than 644 million downloads came on the first day that Attorney General William Barr released the redacted document, the Justice Department's Office of General Counsel said, with at least 149 million more in the subsequent four days. Nearly 180,000 downloads occurred on the day Mueller spoke about his report's findings in brief public remarks in late May, the department data shows. Downloads of the report hovered in the tens of thousands most days following its release until the Justice Department, which released the data, stopped counting in July. The data does not show how many of the downloads may be from unique visitors to the department's website, and the agency said it also does not have information on how long people spent on the page. A senior Justice Department official told Politico that the agency took "appropriate" steps before the report's release to ensure that the website's infrastructure could handle large volumes of traffic. “We were ready to go that day,” the official said. Hundreds of thousands of other copies were also reportedly sold commercially in bookstores or online.** thehill.com/policy/national-security/457748-mueller-report-downloaded-over-800-million-times-report
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2019 17:43:30 GMT
George Takei...
”Trump touted the economy as a reason to re-elect him. Now that there are economic storm clouds, he blames the media for stirring fears of recession. When jobs get scarcer, he’ll blame immigrants. He’ll take credit but never responsibility, because he is a coward and a phony.”
I agree with his assessment.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2019 18:08:38 GMT
Newsweek...
”Nearly 400,000 people have signed a petition to name the street outside of Trump Tower "President Barack H. Obama Ave."
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Post by PLurker on Aug 18, 2019 18:13:36 GMT
George Takei... ”Trump touted the economy as a reason to re-elect him. Now that there are economic storm clouds, he blames the media for stirring fears of recession. When jobs get scarcer, he’ll blame immigrants. He’ll take credit but never responsibility, because he is a coward and a phony.” I agree with his assessment. yep. all the credit none of the blame is his m.o. Always has been. In every asspect (<typo of extra 's' seems appropriate- leaving) of his life.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2019 19:29:19 GMT
I know nothing about “yield curve inversion”. Here is The White House explanation. Now this guy may be correct. Problem is the stock market didn’t see it that way. And, more importantly, this White House has been proven to tell lie after lie after lie so how can we, The American People, believe a word anyone connected with the White House says? CNBC... “White House trade advisor Navarro: 'Technically we did not have a yield curve inversion'“The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note briefly fell below the 2-year rate on Wednesday, a phenomenon in the bond market known as yield curve inversion, which is typically taken as a sign that a recession is on the horizon. "An inverted yield curve requires a big spread before short and long," Navarro said. "All we have had is a flat curve." The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 800 points or about 3% in its worst performance of 2019 as investors grew spooked about the U.S. economy. Investors, however, did not seem to interpret the yield curve that way on Wednesday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 800 points or about 3% in its worst performance of 2019 as investors grew spooked about the U.S. economy. But Navarro said that the yield curve is actually sending a positive signal. He said foreign capital is coming into the bond market due to the strength of the Trump economy, which is bidding up bond prices on the long end and bidding down yields, leading to what he said is the flat curve. "In this case, the flat curve is actually the result of a very strong Trump economy," he said. Navarro sees a bullish case for the U.S. economy this year. He said the Federal Reserve needs to embark on very aggressive interest rate cuts through the end of the year, which will lower the yield on shorter term bonds. The Fed lowered its benchmark rate by a quarter point in July, the first cut since the financial crisis in 2008. Chairman Jerome Powell, however, said the cut was a "midcycle adjustment" and the committee did not see economic weakness that would require a longer cycle of slashing interest rates. Powell, during his July press conference, said the U.S. economic outlook remains favorable but the Fed decided to cut rates "to insure against downside risks from weak global growth and trade policy uncertainty." He said businesses are more cautious about capital spending due to the ongoing uncertainty. Navarro, however, disputed that the trade war was having an impact on the economy, pointing instead to the Fed which he said raised rates too far and too fast before pivoting this year. "The Federal Reserve chairman should look in the mirror," Navarro said. American farmers, however, have said that the trade war is starting to hurt them. President Trump also decided to postpone some tariffs until December to avoid any impact on the holiday shopping season, which seemed to contradict past administration claims that China was bearing the burden of the tariffs. Despite warnings from farmers and businesses, Navarro suggested the U.S. has the upper hand in the trade war with China: "We are winning," he said.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2019 19:35:52 GMT
No wonder trump had a Sunday Morning rant.
From an NBC Poll..
”If Trump runs for reelection, will you definitely vote for Trump, probably vote for Trump, probably vote for the Democrat or definitely vote for the Democrat? Definitely Trump 29% Probably Trump 11% Probably Dem 11% Definitely Dem 41% (NBC/WSJ, RV 8/10-14)
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”All in all, do you think things in the nation are generally headed in the right direction, or do you feel things are off on the wrong track? Right direction 33% Wrong track 60% (NBC/WSJ Poll, 8/10-14/19) trend: pollingreport.com/right.htm”
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Aug 18, 2019 19:55:32 GMT
Joe Walsh... ”Trump will lose in 2020 because the vast majority of America is tired of him. Tired of his bullshit. Tired of his drama. Just plain tired of him.” Prompted this From George Conway.. “Yep. Even many supporters find him exhausting. One person I know who had never before said anything bad about him was watching him blather nonsensically to the press last month, and in exasperation finally yelled at the TV, “Oh, God, shut up, get on the helicopter already!” Yup... "One person I know..." Maybe his wife!
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Aug 18, 2019 21:10:38 GMT
I cannot keep up with his rant today............ He IS going after Greenland!! Denmark is losing over 700,000 million every year......
Something is wrong at FOX.. Their polls are wrong etc....... I made them...... He name Tucker, Sean, Janine, Laura etc..... then said WE have a lot of great people! OH WE.
Rally in NH, 17000 standing out side, you know that! packed ... even sitting behind the big flag and they couldn't see...
Background check, up to Congress ... Oh the 2nd amendment, I support that, more then any other president............. we already have great background checks!! Obama did NOT do his job, left 138 unfilled federal judges, wonder what happened there.......... well ask Moscow Mitch.... 2 supreme court judges...
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Aug 18, 2019 21:24:42 GMT
Ah ha!! Pelosi has stepped in on the foreign aid cuts............. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) warned that proposed cuts to foreign aid already appropriated by Congress could put a budget deal with the White House in jeopardy in a Sunday letter to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. “I request that you work within the Administration to stop this proposed rescission, which GAO [Government Accountability Office] states is illegal, which violates the good faith of our budget negotiations, which important Republicans say is ill-advised, and which overrides Congress’ most fundamental Constitutional power,” Pelosi wrote in the letter to Mnuchin.Pelosi enclosed a letter from Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-S.C.) and Rep. Hal Rogers (R-Ky.), the former chair of the House Appropriations Committee, expressing their own concerns about the proposed $4.3 billion in cuts to State Department and United States Agency for International Development funding. The Speaker also included a bipartisan letter warning against a new rescission package signed by House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) and Ranking Member Michael McCaul (D-Texas) and Senate Foreign Relations Committee James Risch (R-Idaho) and Ranking Member Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) "A move to rescind funding absent policy input from the Department of State and USAID [U.S. Agency for International Development] only undermines our national security interests and emboldens our adversaries,” Rogers and Graham wrote. “We strongly urge you to reconsider this approach.” Other members of the Appropriations Committee also warned against the attempted rescission Friday. “The Trump administration’s continued efforts to illegally withhold funding that Congress has approved subverts critical norms in our democratic process," Committee Chair Nina Lowey (D-N.Y.) said in a statement to The Hill on Friday. "We are insisting that the administration spend the appropriated foreign assistance funds, and are working with GAO to make sure the law is followed,” she added. ** thehill.com/homenews/house/457886-pelosi-warns-mnuchin-to-stop-illegal-43b-cut-to-foreign-aid
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2019 22:05:31 GMT
trump...
”Our economy is the best in the world, by far. Lowest unemployment ever within almost all categories. Poised for big growth after trade deals are completed. Import prices down, China eating Tariffs. Helping targeted Farmers from big Tariff money coming in. Great future for USA!”
Still lying.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2019 23:10:10 GMT
ABC News...
“CBP officers seize almost 4 tons of marijuana inside shipment of jalapeño peppers”
Updated an hour ago SAN DIEGO, California -- Border patrol agents say they seized nearly four tons of marijuana, hidden in a shipment of jalapeno peppers on Thursday.
Officers at California's Otay Mesa Facility says a Mexican citizen entered the port of entry driving a tractor trailer full of what was manifested as jalapeno peppers.
Some canines alerted officers, who in turn opened the shipment and found 314 wrapped packages of the plants.
The port director said the seizure prevented the drugs from reaching the community.”
i didn’t know Jalapeño peppers had the ability to walk across the open Southern Boarder carting marijuana. Then by all means the wall needs to me built. “
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2019 0:45:11 GMT
Alexi McCammond...
”My worst polls have been coming from Fox. There’s something going on with Fox, and I don’t like it,” President Trump says in NJ before heading back to DC. “Fox is making a big mistake because, you know, I’m the one who calls the shots” on the general election debates.”
So what does dimwit donnie want Fox News to do? Make up numbers to “please” trump?
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Post by dewryce on Aug 19, 2019 1:33:32 GMT
Alexi McCammond... ”My worst polls have been coming from Fox. There’s something going on with Fox, and I don’t like it,” President Trump says in NJ before heading back to DC. “Fox is making a big mistake because, you know, I’m the one who calls the shots” on the general election debates.” So what does dimwit donnie want Fox News to do? Make up numbers to “please” trump? Yes. Yes he does.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Aug 19, 2019 1:46:45 GMT
I cannot keep up with his rant today............ He IS going after Greenland!! Denmark is losing over 700,000 million every year...... Something is wrong at FOX.. Their polls are wrong etc....... I made them...... He name Tucker, Sean, Janine, Laura etc..... then said WE have a lot of great people! OH WE.I posted this earlier now CNN is showing it! about 34 secs... Trump: There's something going on at Fox Newswww.cnn.com/videos/politics/2019/08/18/trump-fox-news-polls-sot-vpx.cnn/video/playlists/this-week-in-politics/Newsroom When asked about Fox News polling data, President Donald Trump lashed out at the network saying, "there's something going on" that he's not happy with. Source: CNN
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2019 2:00:08 GMT
The Atlantic...
”The writer Ben Howe grew up in the world of conservative evangelicalism. But when he looks at the religious right now, he explained to @emmaogreen, all he sees is a thirst for power and domination:”
So that is why they have latched on to trump...
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Aug 19, 2019 2:16:55 GMT
Trump just screwed the corn farmers!! Trump directive ended review of ethanol requirements: report It was a decision directly from President Trump that ended the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) review of the nation’s biofuel program, according to a Friday report from Reuters, a move that had the president siding with refineries over corn growers.Last Friday, the EPA granted 31 exemptions to small refineries across the country, giving them a pass on blending ethanol into gasoline. But sources told Reuters the decision signals a bigger shift within the Trump administration to favor the oil and gas sector over farmers, a group that has already been hit hard by Trump’s tariff war with China. “The president has heard from all sides and in the end he has had enough of it. He called [EPA Administrator Andrew] Wheeler and gave him the green light,” a source familiar with the matter told the news service. The U.S. biofuel program requires gas producers to add corn-based ethanol to their fuels, a program originally designed to reduce pollution and reliance on foreign oil. But the program allows EPA to give hardship exemptions to small oil refineries that make a case they are burdened by the law, a move corn farmers say reduces demand for their product. The rule creates tension between two groups Trump views as supporters. ** thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/457706-trump-directive-ended-review-of-ethanol-requirements-report**************** Iowa's Republican Senator Chuck Grassley said the Trump administration's Environmental Protection Agency has "screwed" the U.S. ethanol industry and farmers by granting waivers to 31 small petroleum refineries, effectively exempting them from an obligation to use more ethanol in their products. The powerful senator, who represents the largest ethanol-producing state in the country, told Iowa Public Television that low biofuel credit prices negated refiners' complaints that they are suffering financial hardship and deserve waivers from complying with laws to encourage more biofuel use. "They screwed us...when they issued 31 waivers," Grassley told the broadcaster. "Compared to less than 10 waivers during all the Obama years...What's really bad isn't a waiver, it's that it's been granted to people who aren't in hardship," he said.He added that he would take up the issue with President Donald Trump. Reuters earlier reported that it was Trump who gave the green light to EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler to go ahead with the waiver decisions, a move that infuriated corn growers while pleasing the refining industry. The president had promised corn farmers he would review the exemptions after a June trip to Iowa, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The decision last week angered ethanol producers. ** www.newsmax.com/newsfront/grassley-epa-biofuel-waivers/2019/08/16/id/928841/?gdpr_consent=&gdpr=false
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2019 3:02:18 GMT
David Jolly...
”I'm of the increasing mindset the Dem nominee should skip any and all debates with him. Just tell the country there's no debating a liar and move on. Let them each take their message straight to voters.”
I think this is an excellent idea.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Aug 19, 2019 3:21:11 GMT
Good, since dt said today he is in charge of the debates!
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Post by lucyg on Aug 19, 2019 3:57:47 GMT
Bernie Sanders just said if Israel doesn't want members of Congress in their country then maybe they don't want our money!
Rubio and others (GOP and Dems) have said that they don't agree with what Tlaib and Omar have said, Israel should not have denied entry them into their country! *I* don’t agree with a lot of what they have to say, and even I think it’s a complete abrogation of his oath of office and his duty to this country that he would have involved himself in this business. And Bibi Netanyahu is a disaster for Israel waiting to happen. There is no.freakin’.way he should be picking and choosing which American Congress members to allow into Israel. This is an international incident just waiting to blow up in his face. Dumbasses, the pair of them.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2019 15:07:40 GMT
Now you tell me there isn’t something mentally wrong with trump...
Kyle Griffin..
“Trump, confronting ominous economic signs, believes there's a conspiracy against him. He insists his own handpicked Fed chair is acting against him. He says other countries want to hurt America. And he thinks the news media is trying to create a recession.”
New York Times..
“In Economic Warning Signals, Trump Sees Signs of a Conspiracy”
President Trump, confronting perhaps the most ominous economic signs of his time in office, has unleashed what is by now a familiar response: lashing out at what he believes is a conspiracy of forces arrayed against him.
He has insisted that his own handpicked Federal Reserve chair, Jerome H. Powell, is intentionally acting against him. He has said other countries, including allies, are working to hurt American economic interests. And he has accused the news media of trying to create a recession.
“The Fake News Media is doing everything they can to crash the economy because they think that will be bad for me and my re-election,” Mr. Trump tweeted last week. “The problem they have is that the economy is way too strong and we will soon be winning big on Trade, and everyone knows that, including China!”
Mr. Trump has repeated the claims in private discussions with aides and allies, insisting that his critics are trying to take away what he sees as his calling card for re-election. Mr. Trump has been agitated in discussions of the economy, and by the news media’s reporting of warnings of a possible recession. He has said forces that do not want him to win have been overstating the damage his trade war has caused, according to people who have spoken with him. And several aides agree with him that the news media is overplaying the economic fears, adding to his feeling of being justified, people close to the president said.
The claims provide a ready target to help Mr. Trump deflect blame if the economy does tip into recession. But whether they could truly insulate the president on what could be a significant issue of the 2020 election after he has so conspicuously wrapped himself in the good economic news of the past two years remains an open question, and he and his advisers have sought to tamp down concerns that a downturn is on the way.
“Our economy is the best in the world, by far,” Mr. Trump tweeted on Sunday. “Lowest unemployment ever within almost all categories. Poised for big growth after trade deals are completed.”
“I don’t see a recession,” he told reporters later on Sunday before leaving his private golf club in Bedminster, N.J., for Washington. But he added that if the economy slowed down, “it would be because I have to take on China and some other countries,” singling out the European Union as among those treating the United States “very badly.”
The president’s broadsides follow a long pattern of conspiratorial thinking. He has claimed, without evidence, that undocumented immigrants cast millions of ballots, costing him the popular vote in the 2016 election. During the campaign, he predicted that the system might prove to be “rigged” if he did not win. He conjured up a “deep state” conspiracy within the government to thwart his election and, more recently, his agenda. And he has said reporters are trying to harm him with pictures of empty seats at his rallies.
The attacks come as the economy has begun flashing some warning signs, despite unemployment near historic lows and relatively high marks by voters on Mr. Trump’s economic stewardship. Global growth has been slowing. Last week, stock markets plunged as the yield on the 10-year Treasury note briefly fell below that of the two-year Treasury note, an unusual situation known as an inversion of the yield curve that is considered one of the most reliable leading indicators of recession in the United States.
And signs of damage from Mr. Trump’s trade war with China have been mounting.
In some conversations, the president has been preoccupied with the trade war, as well as with how to handle the pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, according to the people who have spoken with him. “I’d love to see it worked out in a humane fashion,” Mr. Trump told reporters on Sunday, referring to potential retaliation against the demonstrators by China. “It does put pressure on the trade deal,” he added.
Mr. Trump also indicated that the Chinese tech giant Huawei, which his administration sees as a national security threat, might not receive an extension of a reprieve that allows American companies to supply it with certain goods despite a ban on such trade.
“Huawei is a company we may not do business with at all,” the president said, casting doubt on reports that the reprieve, which is set to expire on Monday, would be extended.
On Sunday, his advisers battled any notion that the trade war could be harming the economy. Peter Navarro, a top trade adviser who has urged the president on in his trade war, dismissed a study from researchers at Harvard, the University of Chicago, the International Monetary Fund and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston that showed that the cost of Mr. Trump’s tariffs had “fallen largely on the U.S.,” not on China and other countries, as the administration has asserted.
“There’s no evidence whatsoever that American consumers are bearing any of this,” Mr. Navarro said on CNN’s “State of the Union,” insisting, despite abundant data to the contrary, that “they’re not hurting anybody here.”
While maintaining that any turmoil in the economy is overstated, Mr. Navarro and Larry Kudlow, the White House economic adviser, also said the Federal Reserve had slowed economic growth, mirroring Mr. Trump’s criticisms.
Mr. Kudlow, appearing on “Fox News Sunday,” said that the state of the economy under the Trump administration “is kind of a miracle, because we face severe monetary restraint from the Fed.” ADVERTISEMENT
Mr. Navarro, appearing on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” blamed the Fed for raising interest rates “too far, too fast,” adding that “they have cost us a full point” of growth in gross domestic product.
Mr. Trump has also struck an increasingly strident economic tone.
“You have no choice but to vote for me because your 401(k), everything is going to be down the tubes” if Democrats win, he told a crowd at a campaign rally in Manchester, N.H., last week. “Whether you love me or hate me, you’ve got to vote for me.”
The rally was one a few departures from a relatively low-profile period during a nearly two-week trip to his club in Bedminster, where he typically spends part of August. He also took official trips to El Paso, Tex., and Dayton, Ohio, after the gun massacres there, and he went to Pennsylvania ostensibly to talk about energy sources, but instead delivered remarks indistinguishable from those at one of his rallies.
But the dyspeptic diatribes came in spurts, and the president whipsawed between frustration and freewheeling meetings and golf outings, including one on Saturday with the president of the P.G.A. and the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, according to two people familiar with his playing partners. Still, Mr. Trump was frustrated by the news media’s coverage of his rally in New Hampshire. He repeatedly complained about misleading pictures of empty seats, or that attendance at the arena had beat Elton John’s record crowd there, but no one was covering it.
Long-serving aides say that Mr. Trump understands that presidents face harder re-election battles in a bad economy, and he has made the issue central to his presidency.
But even as he returns to Washington facing new pressures, Mr. Trump did not seem to anticipate a quick resolution to the trade war. “The tariffs have cost nothing, in my opinion, or certainly very little,” in terms of pain to American consumers and businesses, Mr. Trump insisted, adding that “China is eating the tariffs.”
“China would like to make a deal,” he said. “I’m not ready.”
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