The trump presidency

[b.c.]

...MORE alternate realities:
https://www.yahoo.com/gma/top-white-house-economist-says-trumps-gdp-unemployment-194521472.html
Top White House economist says Trump's GDP and unemployment claim was wrong

... birds of a feather:

ABC News got their hands on emails between alleged Russian agent and top NRA officials
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...n-alleged-Russian-agent-and-top-NRA-officials
and in other news:

Bob Woodward warns of White House dysfunction: “Let’s hope to God we don’t have a crisis.”

 

[StormfrontFL]

Na my past is right where it belongs, in the past. I've dealt with and forgiven the pervert that molested me. There's nothing from that experience that can ever harm me again.

Meanwhile enabling someone who doesn't know what sex he is isn't helping him.

And yeah, I dated and had sex exclusively with men for at least three maybe four years. Not including the years that I was molested which started when I was almost eleven yrs old. The fact that my life took me in a different direction. I started dating and having sex with women because it was the choice I made. I have no regrets about that either.

So you don't know what gender you prefer having sex with is what you're saying? In most circles someone straight could never have sex with someone of the same gender so that rules out you being straight no matter what you do now. Hate being generalized and psychoanalyzed by some stranger, don't you?

 

[b.c.]

... a lot of retrogressive SHIT in all so typically disguised conservative wordspeak. Like, "Reversed onerous Obama environmental rules that gave the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ham-handed authority to destroy the coal industry and abrogate landowners’ rights."

Translation: "Undermine environmental regulations to allow irresponsible corporate entities to grab land and FUCK THE ENVIRONMENT at WILL."

Tribes: Trump illegally approved oil pipeline from Canada

"Native American tribes in Montana and South Dakota sued the Trump administration on Monday, claiming it approved an oil pipeline from Canada without considering potential damage to cultural sites from spills and construction.

The tribes argue ... Trump brushed aside their rights and put their members at risk when he reversed President Barack Obama’s rejection of the $8 billion TransCanada Corp. project.

The line would carry up to 830,000 barrels (35 million gallons) of crude daily along a 1,184-mile (1,900-kilometer) path from Canada to Nebraska. The route passes through the ancestral homelands of the Rosebud Sioux in central South Dakota and the Gros Ventre and Assiniboine Tribes in Montana.

“The tribes are talking about cultural sites, archaeological sites, burial grounds, graveyards — none of that has been surveyed and it’s in the way of the pipeline,” said Natalie Landreth, an attorney with the Native American Rights Fund, which is representing the tribes.

The tribes said a spill from the line could damage a South Dakota water supply system that serves more than 51,000 people including on the Rosebud, Pine Ridge and Lower Brule Indian Reservations.

An existing TransCanada pipeline, also called Keystone, suffered a spill last year that released almost 10,000 barrels (407,000 gallons) of oil near Amherst, South Dakota."

 

[Chrysippus]

Trump has hired Polly Graf to help him find his leaker.

 

[keenobserver]

Trump has hired Polly Graf to help him find his leaker.

His "leaker" is below his sagging gut and above his knees, being squeezed by the thunder thighs.

 

[Gj816]

So you don't know what gender you prefer having sex with is what you're saying? In most circles someone straight could never have sex with someone of the same gender so that rules out you being straight no matter what you do now. Hate being generalized and psychoanalyzed by some stranger, don't you?

Not at all buddy, what you, or anyone else in this world thinks of me is irrelevant. My life isn't guided or destined by what others think, but what I do. I make my own choices.

You can choose to enable these poor confused prick's all you want. They'll always be people like me around to tell them that people like you are misguided, ill informed, and politically correct. Instead of being honest and up front with them. You'd rather pamper and lie to them.

 

[chicagosam]

His "leaker" is below his sagging gut and above his knees, being squeezed by the thunder thighs.

An “innie”, not an “outie”.

 

[Chrysippus]

Not at all buddy, what you, or anyone else in this world thinks of me is irrelevant. My life isn't guided or destined by what others think, but what I do. I make my own choices.

You can choose to enable these poor confused prick's all you want. They'll always be people like me around to tell them that people like you are misguided, ill informed, and politically correct. Instead of being honest and up front with them. You'd rather pamper and lie to them.

Maudlin—almost moving! Goodbye, Shane.

 

[deleted15807]

What's next? Mandating that raw sewage get added to drinking water? This is criminal negligence. This is an evil "administration". When it comes to sheer lunatic stupidity, nothing in the Trump Administration beats their environmental assaults. Who will benefit from this other than a few oil and gas company executives and owners? Meanwhile, the world burns.

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration, taking its third major step this year to roll back federal efforts to fight climate change, is preparing to make it significantly easier for energy companies to release methane into the atmosphere.

Methane, which is among the most powerful greenhouse gases, routinely leaks from oil and gas wells, and energy companies have long said that the rules requiring them to test for emissions were costly and burdensome.

The Environmental Protection Agency, perhaps as soon as this week, plans to make public a proposal to weaken an Obama-era requirement that companies monitor and repair methane leaks, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times. In a related move, the Interior Department is also expected in coming days to release its final version of a draft rule, proposed in February, that essentially repeals a restriction on the intentional venting and “flaring,” or burning, of methane from drilling operations.​

Trump Administration Wants to Make It Easier to Release Methane Into Air​

 

[deleted15807]

Immortal words describing the threat of Hurricane Florence.

Flanked in the Oval Office by charts showing the path of Hurricane Florence, President Trump on Tuesday issued a warning about the potentially catastrophic storm that at times felt strangely exuberant.

“Tremendously big and tremendously wet — tremendous amounts of water,” Trump said, expressing something close to admiration at the expected precipitation.​

‘Tremendously big’: Trump reaches for superlatives in the face of calamity
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Even as his administration pursues policies ensuring devastation across the south.

 

[b.c.]

Immortal words describing the threat of Hurricane Florence.

Flanked in the Oval Office by charts showing the path of Hurricane Florence, President Trump on Tuesday issued a warning about the potentially catastrophic storm that at times felt strangely exuberant.

“Tremendously big and tremendously wet — tremendous amounts of water,” Trump said, expressing something close to admiration at the expected precipitation.​

‘Tremendously big’: Trump reaches for superlatives in the face of calamity
​

Even as his administration pursues policies ensuring devastation across the south.

While at the same time making silly ass statements such as this:

Trump on Puerto Rico Hurricane Maria response: "An incredible, unsung success."

 

[b.c.]

• Rebuilt the nation’s military, destroyed ISIS and faced down North Korea’s “Rocket Man.”

Trump on Puerto Rico Hurricane Maria response: "An incredible, unsung success."

Trump admin. shifted $10M from FEMA to ICE: Senator

 

[b.c.]

"There's just no words for how incomprehensibly out of touch Donald Trump is with the havoc he and his trade policies are wreaking on farmers. Here's what Trump told a local KELO reporter in South Dakota last week when he was asked for comforting words for those farmers at risk of losing their livelihoods because of Trump's trade war.

Brady Mallory: "So, for family farmers here who are worried about losing their generations-long farms -- at the end of the season --, (and) early retirement, any words of comfort for them now?"

... Donald Trump: "Well, they would've lost them anyway because they were being hurt so badly by the trade barriers. We will tell you they are going to be in a very good position soon.""

'They would've lost them anyway': Trump comforts farmers losing farms due to tariffs

 

[deleted15807]

"There's just no words for how incomprehensibly out of touch Donald Trump is with the havoc he and his trade policies are wreaking on farmers. Here's what Trump told a local KELO reporter in South Dakota last week when he was asked for comforting words for those farmers at risk of losing their livelihoods because of Trump's trade war.

Brady Mallory: "So, for family farmers here who are worried about losing their generations-long farms -- at the end of the season --, (and) early retirement, any words of comfort for them now?"

... Donald Trump: "Well, they would've lost them anyway because they were being hurt so badly by the trade barriers. We will tell you they are going to be in a very good position soon.""

'They would've lost them anyway': Trump comforts farmers losing farms due to tariffs

Gotta say they deserve their lot. He's a psychopath and has zero capacity for empathy. Trump is an ignorant Queens real estate con-man and no matter what title he holds, he will never be more than that.

Trump will throw America a roll of paper towels when he’s finished

 

[deleted15807]

Trump nails it....

Seemingly every day now, US President Donald Trump escalates his policy and personal attacks against other countries and their heads of state, the poor and the weak, and migrant families. Most recently, Trump has championed the heartless separation of migrant children from their parents. Though public outrage may have forced him to retreat, his disposition to attack will soon make itself felt elsewhere.

Most pundits interpret Trump’s outbursts as playing to his political base, or preening for the cameras, or blustering for the sake of striking future deals. We take a different view. In line with many of America’s renowned mental-health experts, we believe that Trump suffers from several psychological pathologies that render him a clear and present danger to the world.1

Trump shows signs of at least three dangerous traits: paranoia, lack of empathy, and sadism. Paranoia is a form of detachment from reality in which an individual perceives threats that do not exist. The paranoid individual can create dangers for others in the course of fighting against imaginary threats. Lack of empathy can derive from an individual’s preoccupation with the self and a view of others as mere tools. Harming others causes no remorse when it serves one’s own purposes. Sadism means finding pleasure in inflicting pain or humiliating others, especially those who represent a perceived threat or a reminder of one’s weaknesses.

Trump’s Psychopathology Is Getting Worse​

 

[Gj816]

If those illegal aliens hadn't crossed the US border illegally, they would never have been separated from their children. But I suppose it's okay to break the law to get what you want. The bleeding hearts don't care about that though. Just that children were separated from their criminal parents or guardians, and it's all President Donald Trump's fault.

 

[TexanStar]

If those illegal aliens hadn't crossed the US border illegally, they would never have been separated from their children. But I suppose it's okay to break the law to get what you want. The bleeding hearts don't care about that though. Just that children were separated from their criminal parents or guardians, and it's all President Donald Trump's fault.

Crossing the US border, even outside of checkpoints, in order to seek asylum is not a criminal act. It is specially addressed as legal under the law.

 

[b.c.]

Trump admin. shifted $10M from FEMA to ICE: Senator

And with FIVE tropical cyclones in the Atlantic alone, one heading for the East Coast and another possibly entering the Gulf, in tonight's show, Rachael Maddow revealed that Trump not only took $10 million from the financially strapped FEMA to give to ICE

Senator shows proof the Trump admin took hurricane recovery funds to pay for ICE detentions

But has taken, or plans on taking an ADDITIONAL 30 MILLION from ANOTHER vital disaster response agency, The U.S. Coast Guard, to give to ICE (as discussed in the June article linked below):

Trump administration plans to use Coast Guard money to pay for border enforcement - The Washington Post

The SAME Coast Guard, btw, that has spent 20 MILLION covering Trump's a---- on his Mar-A-Lago jaunts:

Report: Coast Guard Spent About $20 Million for Trump's Mar-a-Lago Visits | Newsmax.com

All to BETTER enable ICE to lock up children in "detention" camps (thanks @rbkwp for the link):

Detention of Migrant Children Has Skyrocketed to Highest Levels Ever - The New York Times

 

[TexanStar]

Is Trump using hurricane relief money to fund ICE? Not exactly.
But the Trump administration is taking $200 million from other parts of the Department of Homeland Security instead of staying within its budget on immigrant detention.


But there’s a difference between “money in the FEMA budget” and “money for hurricane relief.”

The Trump administration points out that the $9.8 million transferred from FEMA didn’t come out of the Disaster Relief Fund that is specifically appropriated for major disasters. Instead, it came out of the agency’s “operations and support” fund. DHS characterizes that fund as used for administrative expenses: Examples listed by a DHS official included “employee travel expenses, training, basic purchase cards, office supplies, HQ overhead support.”

What complicates this slightly is that one of the things funded by FEMA “operations and support” is the agency’s Office of Response and Recovery, which organizes the agency’s emergency operations and rebuilding efforts. About $2.5 million of the transferred funds came out of the response and recovery budgets.

In its official explanation for the funds transfer, the Trump administration describes the cuts this way: “Mission impact is minimized as FEMA will curtail training, travel, public engagement sessions, IT security support and infrastructure maintenance, and IT investments in the legacy grants systems.”

DHS said this was money that had already been saved and was going to expire at the end of the fiscal year unless otherwise used. And the funds taken from response and recovery only make up about 0.2 percent of the Operations and Support budget. So while the Trump administration will likely face fierce criticism if its response to Florence is inadequate, it’s not clear that a few million more dollars in the agency’s coffers would make the difference between success and catastrophe.

 

[Gj816]

Crossing the US border, even outside of checkpoints, in order to seek asylum is not a criminal act. It is specially addressed as legal under the law.

Yeah if you come in through the point of entry.