Princess of Tap Posted February 6 18 hours ago, jakeem said: CNN PoliticsVerified account@CNNPolitics BREAKING: Federal prosecutors subpoena President Trump's inaugural committee, source says https://cnn.it/2D87g6r 18 hours ago, jakeem said: Polly Sigh @dcpoll New York prosecutors seek records from Trump inauguration committee. SDNY prosecutors contacted Trump’s inaugural committee on Monday and plan to subpoena them for documents, indicating that another inquiry into Trump is widening. Criminality from day one 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Princess of Tap Posted February 6 11 hours ago, jakeem said: CNN NewsroomVerified account@CNNnewsroom "How is that possible?" @BrookeBCNN and @CillizzaCNN react to a recent @CNN poll which reports 12% of respondents have never heard of Vice President Mike Pence. https://cnn.it/2DT0Xp6 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mr6666 Posted February 6 GOP Leadership Instructs Lawmakers to Play Up Gruesome Murders and Rapes by Immigrants "..... In a newsletter sent on Friday, House Republican Conference Chair Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., provided the caucus and staff with a messaging update that compiled immigrant crimes by date and congressional district. The newsletter is used by the GOP caucus to provide talking points and messaging guidance. ....... Studies have consistently shown that crime rates are actually lower among foreign immigrants than among native-born Americans. But the strategy does not appear to be a fair-minded discussion of immigration policy — or crime, for that matter. Across the world, demagogues have deftly exploited bigotry to whip up anger using incidents of murder and rape... Trump’s embrace of the strategy now appears to have reverberated across the Republican Party, with GOP lawmakers now openly encouraged to stoke fear over immigrant crime. " https://theintercept.com/2019/02/05/republicans-immigrants-crimes/ 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mr6666 Posted February 6 Evan HillVerified account @evanchill 23h23 hours ago This is a bombshell from CNN: Saudi Arabia and the UAE have given US military equipment, including armored vehicles, to Al Qaeda-linked militias to buy their loyalty in the Yemen war https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2019/02/middleeast/yemen-lost-us-arms/ 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Arturo Posted February 6 1 hour ago, mr6666 said: GOP Leadership Instructs Lawmakers to Play Up Gruesome Murders and Rapes by Immigrants "..... In a newsletter sent on Friday, House Republican Conference Chair Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., provided the caucus and staff with a messaging update that compiled immigrant crimes by date and congressional district. The newsletter is used by the GOP caucus to provide talking points and messaging guidance. ....... Studies have consistently shown that crime rates are actually lower among foreign immigrants than among native-born Americans. But the strategy does not appear to be a fair-minded discussion of immigration policy — or crime, for that matter. Across the world, demagogues have deftly exploited bigotry to whip up anger using incidents of murder and rape... Trump’s embrace of the strategy now appears to have reverberated across the Republican Party, with GOP lawmakers now openly encouraged to stoke fear over immigrant crime. " https://theintercept.com/2019/02/05/republicans-immigrants-crimes/ The modern GOP is downright cynical and hypocritical, and some like the President, criminal to boot Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Princess of Tap Posted February 6 23 hours ago, Swithin said: 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Princess of Tap Posted February 6 22 hours ago, jakeem said: David FahrentholdVerified account@Fahrenthold David Fahrenthold Retweeted Joshua Partlow Trump Org. was employing undocumented workers at 3 of its courses in NJ and 2 in NY. Company says it didn’t discover that until just now. 22 hours ago, jakeem said: David FrumVerified account@davidfrum David Frum Retweeted Post Politics Half the winter employees at Trump's Westchester golf course were present illegally in the United States. The Trump Organization seems to have violated US immigration laws on a serious scale - and it only began to clean up its act 2 years into Trump's presidency Can you spell hypocrite? 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Princess of Tap Posted February 6 3 hours ago, jakeem said: Kyle GriffinVerified account@kylegriffin1 Likely the photo of the night. (Reuters photo/Doug Mills) A little Applause for a little man with little hands....... 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mr6666 Posted February 6 NPRVerified account @NPR 5h5 hours ago New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has ordered the majority of National Guard troops deployed at her state's southern border to withdraw, condemning what she called a "charade of border fear-mongering" by President Trump. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mr6666 Posted February 6 Trump administration will roll back Obama-era restrictions on payday lenders "We urge Director Kraninger to reconsider, as her current plan will keep families trapped in predatory, unaffordable debt,” one consumer advocate said. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/cfpb-announces-it-will-roll-back-obama-era-restrictions-payday-n968471?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_ma 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mr6666 Posted February 6 Common Dreams @commondreams 22m22 minutes ago "Outrageous!": Despite $21 Billion Giveaway From #GOPTaxScam, Big Banks Cut Jobs and Slashed Lending https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/02/06/outrageous-despite-21-billion-giveaway-gop-tax-scam-big-banks-cut-jobs-and-slashed … "This is the GOP tax cut in action: screwing over working families and handing out tax breaks to large banks and corporations." #TrumpTaxScam 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Princess of Tap Posted February 7 7 hours ago, jakeem said: NBC NewsVerified account@NBCNews Opinion | Michael Conway: Trump said ending the investigations into him is best for America. So did Nixon. https://nbcnews.to/2DZTTqH - @NBCNewsTHINK 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mr6666 Posted February 7 Andrea MitchellVerified account @mitchellreports 4h4 hours ago .@jacobsoboroff reporting from cmte hrg on separated migrant children: We've heard from cmdr White from Department of Health and Human Services that we just simply do not know how many children were separated by Trump admin and whether or not they were ever reunited w parents 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mr6666 Posted February 7 The HillVerified account @thehill 47m47 minutes ago Pro-Trump group running video billboards counting "attempted illegal border crossings" this year http://hill.cm/BHUzeIV 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mr6666 Posted February 8 Russian-Style Kleptocracy Is Infiltrating America When the U.S.S.R. collapsed, Washington bet on the global spread of democratic capitalist values—and lost. "......... The perils of corruption were an obsession of the Founders. In the summer of 1787, James Madison mentioned corruption in his notebook 54 times. To read the transcripts of the various constitutional conventions is to see just how much that generation worried about the moral quality of public behavior—and how much it wanted to create a system that defined corruption more expansively than the French or British systems had, and that fostered a political culture with higher ethical ambitions. .........The defining document of our era is the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision in 2010. The ruling didn’t just legalize anonymous expenditures on political campaigns. It redefined our very idea of what constitutes corruption, limiting it to its most blatant forms: the bribe and the explicit quid pro quo. Justice Anthony Kennedy’s majority opinion crystallized an ever more prevalent ethos of indifference—the collective shrug in response to tax avoidance by the rich and by large corporations, the yawn that now greets the millions in dark money spent by invisible billionaires to influence elections. In other words, the United States has legitimized a political economy of shadows, and it has done so right in step with a global boom in people hoping to escape into the shadows........ The Founders were concerned that venality would become standard procedure, and it has. Long before suspicion mounted about the loyalties of Donald Trump, large swaths of the American elite—lawyers, lobbyists, real-estate brokers, politicians in state capitals who enabled the creation of shell companies—had already proved themselves to be reliable servants of a rapacious global plutocracy. Richard Palmer was right: The looting elites of the former Soviet Union were far from rogue profiteers. They augured a kleptocratic habit that would soon become widespread. One bitter truth about the Russia scandal is that by the time Vladimir Putin attempted to influence the shape of our country, it was already bending in the direction of his. "' https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/03/how-kleptocracy-came-to-america/580471/?utm_content=edit-promo&utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_term=2019-02-07T16%3A13%3A52 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Princess of Tap Posted February 8 6 hours ago, jakeem said: NewsweekVerified account@Newsweek Trump supporter attacks Barack Obama mannequin in NYC lingerie store https://trib.al/Dj6iH5D MAGA trump supporter goes berserk attacking Barack Obama mannequin in New York City shop window. New York City on- Lookers don't like it. Only in America..... 1 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Princess of Tap Posted February 8 1 hour ago, Bogie56 said: ‘My whole town practically lived there’: From Costa Rica to New Jersey, a pipeline of illegal workers for Trump goes back years Accounts by former employees contribute to mounting evidence that even as the president vilifies workers without legal status, he has long benefited from their labor. By Josh Partlow, Nick Miroff, David Fahrenthold • Read more » The president against illegal immigration turns out to be a businessman who has promoted it and benefited from it for years. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Arturo Posted February 8 Donald Trump has constantly tweeted "Border Wall keeps 'em out! You must heed it!" But this huge hypocrite Turned a blind eye to this Trump properties are where the walls needed. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mr6666 Posted February 8 Mark Joseph SternVerified account @mjs_DC 17h17 hours ago Alabama killed a Muslim man tonight who wanted his imam by his side when he died. The state offered a Christian chaplain or nothing. It was one of the most clear-cut cases of religious discrimination in recent memory. And SCOTUS’ conservatives didn’t care. So he died alone. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Princess of Tap Posted February 9 On 2/7/2019 at 8:54 PM, jakeem said: NBC Nightly News with Lester HoltVerified account @NBCNightlyNews BREAKING: US Supreme Court blocks Louisiana from enforcing stringent abortion law; first major ruling on abortion with Justice Kavanaugh on the court. On 2/7/2019 at 8:55 PM, jakeem said: Marianna SotomayorVerified accoun@MariannaNBCNews Marianna Sotomayor Retweeted NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt Chief Justice John Roberts sided with the most liberal justices on the Court to block the abortion law —> John Roberts, who knew? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Princess of Tap Posted February 9 45 minutes ago, jakeem said: MSNBCVerified account@MSNBC Trump admin at a loss on reuniting kids they took from parents "These are children who were ripped from their parents arms...and now the government is saying, 'well, maybe the children don't really want to see the parents anymore'... It's a stunning argument," Lee Gelernt, of ACLU's Immigrants' Rights Project, says https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-admin-at-a-loss-on-reuniting-kids-they-took-from-parents-1437329987552?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_ma Could you imagine the outrage and the Uproar if American white children were being treated this way? The president is a domestic racist. But his racism has put him in a position where he's breaking International laws and absolutely showing the United States cannot pretend to be the leader of the Free World with this kind of activity and behavior..... trump's domestic racism is fine with his ignorant base, but everyone else in this country knows that his policies are putting us in the same category with a third world country. Breaking international law and abusing asylum-seekers who are of a different race and ethnicity than the ruling party class is strictly third world. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Princess of Tap Posted February 9 15 hours ago, jakeem said: 6 hours ago, jakeem said: ⭐️LOL ⭐️GOP ⭐️ @LOLGOP ⭐️LOL ⭐️GOP ⭐️Retweeted David Fahrenthold Someone please explain to me how the president of the United States employing scores of undocumented immigrants as he costs America $11 billion in a shutdown he claims is over undocumented immigration isn't at least as big a scandal as vile yearbook pictures from the 80s. We are watching a guy run Nazi-like propaganda campaign against immigrants that's resulted in thousands of kidnappings and people sent back to certain death, rape and torture and everybody knows it's all lies because his fortunes are built on the sweat of the undocumented. If undocumented immigration is really so terrible, let's shut down Trump's businesses and see if that solves the problem. The lack of *any* outrage about this on the right gives away the game. They know he doesn't give a crap about undocumented immigration, but they are absolutely certain that they can count on his racism. trump has made a fortune on legal immigration. He has abused illegal Latino immigrants as a businessman and he has abused Latino migrants as president. Like Andrew Jackson, his Idol in the presidency, trump knows how to financially benefit from racism. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Princess of Tap Posted February 9 On 2/8/2019 at 11:39 AM, Bogie56 said: ‘My whole town practically lived there’: From Costa Rica to New Jersey, a pipeline of illegal workers for Trump goes back years Accounts by former employees contribute to mounting evidence that even as the president vilifies workers without legal status, he has long benefited from their labor. By Josh Partlow, Nick Miroff, David Fahrenthold • Read more » And this was just one Golf Resort-- obviously trump has many others. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mr6666 Posted February 9 NBC NewsVerified account @NBCNews 23h23 hours ago Early filers have been taking to social media to express their ire at finding that their refunds were a fraction of what they anticipated or — worse yet — that they would owe an unexpected bill to the IRS. ======================================== Tax code changes leave Americans asking, 'What happened to my refund?' "If I were to estimate, two-thirds will pay more than they thought and one-third will get more than they thought,” said one tax preparer. https://www.nbcnews.com/business/taxes/tax-code-changes-leave-americans-asking-what-happened-my-refund-n969366?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NipkowDisc Posted February 9 19 hours ago, Princess of Tap said: John Roberts, who knew? not any liberals multitudes of which opposed his confirmation... and now they love him. cute. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
