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Trump didn't refer to them as losers but rather swept them up in his moronic 'many fine people' observation.
Don't give him your approval for not having the backbone to use the word that you appropriately used.
Trump Would Be Fired By Any Workplace In America For His Racist Rampage
At the very least he should be sitting in a chair outside of the HR office preparing his defense.
https://www.politicususa.com/2019/07/16/trump-fired-workplace-america-racist-rampage.html
Posted on Tue, Jul 16th, 2019 by Sean Colarossi
Donald Trump remains in the White House on Tuesday after the U.S. House of Representatives voted to condemn his racism, but the presidency is likely one of the only jobs in America that he would be able to keep after spewing such racist garbage.
As MSNBC’s Chris Hayes pointed out on Tuesday, “The crazy thing is that condemnation from the House would be expected in basically any other workplace in America.”
Hayes said:
The crazy thing is that condemnation from the House would be expected in basically any other workplace in America. If any one of us said to a coworker like in a meeting what the president said about those congresswomen, we would expect repercussions. In fact, get this. Here is what the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which polices workplace law and civil rights, here is what they say about immigrants employment rights under federal anti-discrimination laws.
I’ll read it: “Examples of potentially unlawful conduct include insults, taunting or ethnic epithets such as making fun of a person’s foreign accent or comments like ‘Go back to where you came from’, whether made by supervisors or coworkers.” That is how crystal clear-cut this issue is.
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If he held any other job in America and launched into the same racist tirade he recently directed at four U.S. congresswomen, he would likely be fired.
Unfortunately, Donald Trump happens to hold the only position in America that would tolerate such a fundamentally unstable and dangerous individual.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212286322
8. trump never had to answer to a board of directors. If so, he'd be broke & homeless.
However the Tiki torch assholes chanting "the Jews will not replace us" merit no singling out by Trumplethinskin, but rather get lost in his weaselly amoral false equivalence....'many fine people on both sides'. Thanks for the moral clarity.
Trump points out nothing more than his total inadequacy for the office he holds.
Frozen in the amber of the Cold War, you are. Labeling people and States as 'Red' or using dated slogans is the first refuge of a scoundrel.
Got pictures of Joe McCarthy?
Yeah, I'm pretty certain an apology is due for many 4th graders.
But hey, I attributed the vocabulary of a H.S. sophomore to President Used Urinal Cake yesterday.
Guess I've got a few H.S's to visit to offer my apologies, and a hearty 'WTF was I thinking?!'.
See, we got 'em up here. And we name them, after a rapper in this case. Good job CSS!
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/significant-digits-for-wednesday-july-17-2019/
36 hours
Chance the Snapper, a 5-foot-long alligator, has been captured by wildlife officials in Chicago’s Humboldt Park after 36 hours of tracking and surveillance.
“Everybody’s got different blessings. This is my blessing,” said the owner of Crocodilian Specialist Services, who captured the marauding beast.
That’s cool and all, but my blessing is putting together a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news. [NPR]
That's not surprising. You could fill one of Ben Carson's Great Pyramid grain storage facilities with what you don't know.
After first removing the grain of course, and the mummy.
Surprised we didn't get a new breakfast cereal out of that bit of lunacy.
Mummy-O's?
And you go right along with Trump's idiocy, amorality and incompetence.
Did YOU know about those Revolutionary War airfields we recaptured?
The man is dangerously stupid and hateful, and you ignore it.
Well that's a fair fight. Do you really imagine that the Dems can't see that hand and raise it with far, far, far more extremist, bat-shit crazy, inane, insulting, semiliterate Tweets from Trump?
Game on.
Memo to Republicans
Before you regurgitate Trump’s remarks about Democrats not loving their country, remember who it was who stood on a stage in Helsinki and sided with the man who attacked us in an attempt to undermine our nation’s democracy.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212285308
5. And don't forget who crossed the DMZ to kiss Kim Jong Oon's ass.
Bigotry and Donald Trump go back a long way.
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Tuesday, July 16, 2019 NYTimes.com/David-Leonhardt »
Op-Ed Columnist
His real estate company tried to avoid renting apartments to African-American tenants. He described “laziness” as “a trait in blacks.” He called for five black and Latino teenagers to be executed — and then insisted on their guilt even after DNA evidence proved their innocence.
He rose to prominence in the Republican Party by questioning the citizenship of the first black president. He launched his presidential campaign by saying Mexican immigrants were “rapists.” His political organization created a television advertisement that Fox News pulled for being too racist.
He frequently criticizes prominent African-Americans for being unpatriotic, ungrateful, disrespectful or unintelligent. He mocks Native Americans and uses anti-Semitic stereotypes.
He retweets white nationalists. He said that a violent white supremacist march included some “very fine people.” He regularly appoints people with a history of racist comments.
And over the weekend, he told four nonwhite members of Congress — all citizens, of course, and three of them born in the United States — to “go back” to where they came from.
President Trump doesn’t just make racist comments. He is a racist. He’s proven it again and again, over virtually his entire time as a public figure. His bigotry is a core part of his worldview, and it’s been central to his political rise.'
Anyone who claims otherwise — like Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin; Senator Steve Daines of Montana; Marc Short, the vice president’s chief of staff — is simply enabling his hate.
(Mnuchin now has a pattern of defending racism, as a way of pleasing his boss.)
Now what did I tell you about that false equivalence shit? Numbers, dummy, numbers....
And yeah you earned the 'dummy' because this info was posted by me on this board within the past week. But I apologize if it's a cognitive decline issue.
All of the extremist killings in the US in 2018 had links to right-wing extremism, according to new report
the right OWNS this shit and, by extension, so too do Trump and his enablers.
https://www.businessinsider.com/extremist-killings-links-right-wing-extremism-report-2019-1
A new report shows all the extremist killings in 2018 had links to right-wing extremism.
The report's findings are consistent with other fairly recent studies on extremism in the US, which have shown right-wing extremism and violence are on the rise.
There were at least 50 extremist-related killings in 2018, according to the report, making it the fourth-deadliest year on record for domestic extremist-related killings since 1970.
"The extremist-related murders in 2018 were overwhelmingly linked to right-wing extremists," the report states. "Every one of the perpetrators had ties to at least one right-wing extremist movement, although one had recently switched to supporting Islamist extremism. White supremacists were responsible for the great majority of the killings, which is typically the case."
Guns were involved in the vast majority of the killings - 42 of out 50.
The Anti-Defamation League's findings are consistent with other recent research on right-wing extremism in the US, which shows it's on the rise.
"The number of terrorist attacks by far-right perpetrators rose over the past decade, more than quadrupling between 2016 and 2017," the Center for Strategic and International Studies said in a November 2018 report. "The recent pipe bombs and the October 27, 2018, synagogue attack in Pittsburgh are symptomatic of this trend."
Correspondingly, a November 2018 analysis from The Washington Post on global terrorism data showed that far-right violence has been on the rise since President Donald Trump entered the White House.
"Over the past decade, attackers motivated by right-wing political ideologies have committed dozens of shootings, bombings and other acts of violence, far more than any other category of domestic extremist," the report stated.
The report said this has occurred alongside a "decades-long drop-off in violence by left-wing groups," which were considered the top extremist threat in the US three to four decades ago.
Meanwhile, three men and a male high school student were earlier this month charged with plotting to attack a Muslim community in upstate New York with explosives.
In a separate incident, a Colorado man was arrested last Saturday after he posted on social media that he planned to kill "as many girls as I see." Police reportedly feared the man planned to target a Women's March event occurring nearby.
Relatedly, FBI data released in early November 2018 showed hate crimes rose 17% in 2017.
Wow, good catch.
Last week I emailed a friend "which one is Bacharach, which one is Epstein?"
And yeah, Burt is still around at age 91.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burt_Bacharach
Let's hope some serious rain drops start fallin' on fucko's head and nothing seems to fit but a nice orange jumpsuit.
And Everything's.... Worryyyingg…. Him.
Released
October 1969
Trot out that smarmy comment the next time a RW nutter shoots up, blows up or pipe bomb mails multiple targets of their paranoid, conspiracy theory, fake news driven rage.
We all know, history instructs us, that it will come from the right sooner than from the left.
And no, I don't claim that the same shit doesn't drive violence from the left but rather that it is MUCH, much, much more prevalent from the right. Stats support that, so spare me the usual, righty default, false equivalence response.
Al Franken and Prince
Texas Republican Quits GOP: 'Trump Is the Worst President in the History of This Country'
Another lifelong Republican has left the party — this time, a Texas judge — citing her love for her country and her disdain for President Trump.
Following the departure of Rep. Justin Amash (I-Michigan) earlier this month, Texas Republican jurist Elsa Alcala announced on Facebook her leaving the Grand Ole Party. She, like Amash, specifically called attention to President Trump and the willingness of Republicans to excuse support for the President.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212283961
And since those suffering the effect are unlikely to Google it because...……….why? Why do I need to know what I'm suffering from?
So, I'm going to use the 'rolled up newspaper on the snout' method to see If I can induce an ah HA learning moment.
Another triumph of hope over experience.
Dunning–Kruger effect
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In the field of psychology, the Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people mistakenly assess their cognitive ability as greater than it is. It is related to the cognitive bias of illusory superiority and comes from the inability of people to recognize their lack of ability. Without the self-awareness of metacognition, people cannot objectively evaluate their competence or incompetence.
There is no plausible reason for Trump not to do what other candidates for the presidency and elected presidents have done, and you would have ripped Obama a new one for engaging in the same lack of transparency.
Not a single statement I posted is not empirically verifiable, virtually every day. Except by those suffering from the same educational and moral impairments as Trump.
Then I will continue to point out when you fall abysmally short of...manifesting some logic and fact-based critical thinking in your critiques of my posts.
Implicit in 'fix it' is retaining coverage for pre-existing conditions and no cap on lifetime coverage. No one on that stage suggested abandoning those coverages while expanding availability as single payer would do.
You have no point.
Yes, by all means. I'm sure it will be easy to separate fact from insult.
Trump IS hiding his tax returns from us. Obama IS a natural born citizen with a valid birth certificate. It was highly insulting and disrespectful to hold conspiracy theories to the contrary.
Trump IS historically illiterate, inarticulate, has the working vocabulary of a 15 year old, maybe, and is an adulterous moral imbecile. Obama is exactly none of those things.
There's your head start, work on it and get back to us.
Steve Scalise says House Republicans didn't disrespect Obama's position. Let's go to the tape.
I don't know whether or not it's failing memory or selective memory or a little of both, but it's clear you Trumpanzees have memory 'problems'.
So here's a little Cyber-Gingko for you. Gonna be painful, cognitive dissonance usually is. Take the pain.
By JM Rieger
July 16 at 1:40 PM
House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) made quite quite an assertion Tuesday about how Republicans treated President Barack Obama while he was in office.
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While it is true that House Republicans often used the word “president” when referring to Obama, some conservative media personalities, such as Sean Hannity, pointedly did not.
Others called him president but questioned his patriotism, for instance in 2015, when Rudolph W. Giuliani said he did not “believe” Obama “loves America."
But when Obama invited congressional Republicans to the White House, they often ignored him.
The New York Times in 2011 reported:
Congressional Republicans have turned down requests for White House meetings, refused to return the president’s call and walked out of budget talks. [And] Speaker John A. Boehner became what historians say was the first ever to tell a sitting president that no, he could not deliver an address to a joint session of Congress on the date of his choice.
Here are some other times Republican “respect” for Obama was on display.
In 2009, Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) yelled “You lie” at Obama during an address to Congress.
In 2011, Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-Colo.) apologized to Obama after calling him a “tar baby.”
In 2012, Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) said it was time to send Obama “home to Kenya.”
Amid negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program in 2015, Republican leaders broke normal procedure and invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address Congress.
In 2016, Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.) prayed that Obama’s “days be few, and let another have his office.”
A House Republican staffer resigned in 2014 after she told Sasha and Malia Obama to show “a little class.”
And in 2011, Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) said first lady Michelle Obama, “lectures us on eating right while she has a large posterior herself.” (Sensenbrenner apologized the next day).
Over a dozen congressional Republicans did not dismiss the birther conspiracy in 2009. In conservative media, there was endless coverage of Obama’s religion, vacations, golf trips and alleged communist and socialist ties throughout his presidency, examples of which you can watch in the video I made for HuffPost in 2016.
Not even close to a 'bankrupt point'. The context of Trump's remarks was clear, as well as is his legacy of birtherism and numerous racist remarks and behavior.
When you can come back and manifest some logic and fact-based critical thinking, THEN criticize me.
Fix at a minimum and expand availability with a single-payer buy in OPTION. That is the direction of the debate,
Now, WTF has the GOP proposed let alone done?
They are smart, pithy and just barely up to the demand.
And Trump's love is....requited.
Horseshit, you cried about the Kenyan Muslim incessantly and wanted him and his healthcare reform gone. A LOT of whining about both.
Catchy, never gonna happen.
No, but I didn't assume your inability to read for comprehension with a vocabulary below that of a sophomore in H.S. either.
Tea Party and birthirism, you memory impaired nitwit.
How you going to do that, you authoritarian jack-wagon?
Simpletons have been saying that for decades too. Equating lawful dissent with 'not liking America' is a nativist's game played by constitutional illiterates and too easily frightened dumb-asses.
Trump is the one who lost his shit and all he said is what nativists and KKK members have said for decades.
If the sheet fits.
Never happen, THAT is the point.
Your hyperbole about 'fundamentally changing the fabric.....'is just that and even if it were accurate it would be a subject for debate and not worthy of xenophobic racist remarks.
When you get on Jeopardy be sure to say "False Equivalence for $500, Alex."
Why Are Coyotes Thriving in the Chicago Area?
Chance is gone but we've still got plenty of these Wile E. mfr's.
https://news.wttw.com/2017/12/27/why-are-coyotes-thriving-chicago-area
The prairie – a habitat which historically covered much of Illinois’ Cook County – is mostly gone, but the prairie wolf, or coyote, is another story.
There are about 4,000 coyotes roaming Cook County – that’s a self-proclaimed “conservative guess” from Stanley Gehrt, a professor of wildlife ecology at Ohio State University who’s been studying coyotes in the area for nearly two decades.
Since 2000, Gehrt and his research partners at the Urban Coyote Research Project have fitted tracking collars on adult coyotes and implanted pups with microchips to better understand their habits, distribution and interaction with humans and animals.
Based on their research, the coyote population in the area has about doubled since 2005. Gehrt chalks that growth up to two factors: high survivability and high reproductive rates.
“The abundance of food is quite high in Chicago and it’s not just human food or garbage, but there’s a lot of natural food available for these animals in many parts of Chicago that you wouldn’t realize,” Gehrt said.
Coyotes are both predators and scavengers, eating small rodents, Canadian geese, rabbits, deer, fruits and more.
Humans pose the only real threat to coyotes in the city, Gehrt said, and since we can’t hunt or trap them here, the animals remain relatively unscathed.
“Outside of the Chicago area they’re hunted and trapped year-round without any limit, but once you get into Cook County, we don’t allow hunting and trapping, so that’s the only limiting factor for the population, “ Gehrt said. “Most people think it’s the opposite, but once they learn how to cross roads and avoid cars – the only real threat to them – they do extremely well in the city, much better than out in the country.”
Coyotes can be aggressive this time of year as their breeding season approaches. A Northfield family recently learned that the hard way when a surveillance camera caught a coyote attacking and dragging the pet dog in their backyard.
Gehrt said peak mating season is, coincidentally, Valentine’s Day – Feb. 14. That’s when most female coyotes are in heat. Starting in December, male coyotes develop higher hormone levels to defend their territory – and mates.
“We do see a spike in coyote attacks on dogs during the mating season,” Gehrt said. “Our research suggests that coyotes are extremely monogamous, so a single pair breeds together. They’re extremely defensive both in terms of getting access to their mates and intruders into their territory.”
The Urban Coyote Research Project’s website lists several steps in avoiding conflicts with coyotes. The two primary warnings are not feeding coyotes and not leaving pets unleashed or unattended.
Gehrt joins “Chicago Tonight” to discuss his research and the coyote population within Chicago.
These too...…
Kevin McCarthy Is Inventing Reasons Not to Investigate Trump
After ceaselessly probing Clinton and Obama non-scandals, the House majority leader has changed his tune.
By Joan WalshTwitter
https://www.thenation.com/article/kevin-mccarthy-donald-trump-gop-congress/
Poor, dumb Kevin McCarthy. He would have been House Speaker in 2015, except that, like so many political bumblers, he repeatedly got caught saying the quiet part of his posse’s evil strategery out loud.
First, he boasted that thanks to the GOP’s endless and pointless Benghazi investigations, Hillary Clinton’s poll “numbers are dropping” and her campaign for president was stumbling. Mission accomplished! But it sounded pretty bad, even for a Republican.
In another moment of adorable candor, McCarthy told Speaker Paul Ryan and pals in 2016 that he suspected the Russians were actually paying Donald Trump and Representative Dana Rohrabacher, “swear to God”; Ryan hushed him and insisted that such musings stay in the “family,” but someone in the family leaked the comments.
Suddenly there was intriguing evidence that the GOP leadership knew about Russian meddling in US politics—which was “listened to and verified by The Washington Post” in 2017, according to the paper—but wouldn’t acknowledge it to the rest of the country.
That was just a passing story, though; the media seemed to find it distasteful that members of the House GOP “family” were betrayed by a leaker, and the shocking revelation dropped out of rotation when it came to Trump-Russia political news. In the end, it all turned out fine for McCarthy: Paul Ryan wound up with the thankless job of Speaker under Trump; the Bakersfield Republican got to be majority leader.
Now Ryan’s leaving, with his legacy in ruins, and McCarthy’s been nominated to succeed him. Although, now that Democrats have taken the House, he’s likely to stay minority leader—and that’s probably A-OK with McCarthy. He doesn’t really want to be responsible for trying to pass the GOP’s unpopular political agenda, against the backdrop of nonstop Trump scandals, anyway. Would you?
But now that he’s in the minority, McCarthy has changed his tune on two major issues: on the congressional mandate to investigate wrongdoing in high government places—you know, like Benghazi—and on the problem of Russian interference in American politics. The new House Democratic leadership “is going to focus on…more investigations,” McCarthy warned Fox News on Sunday.
"I think America is too great a nation to have such a small agenda.” (I guess America wasn’t great back when McCarthy and friends wasted months on Benghazi.) He dismissed the notion that Michael Cohen’s payments to Trump’s paramours, an apparent campaign-finance violation at minimum, mattered at all. “To go forward and say there’s an impeachable offense because of a campaign finance problem, there’s a lot of members in Congress who would have to leave for that.” (Good to know.)
And the man who once worried that Trump and Rohrabacher were being paid by Russia downplayed reports that up to 16 members of Trump’s campaign team interacted with Russians, spinning ludicrously, “If you’re in an international city, people interact with a lot of individuals.” (That one McCarthy didn’t sound like even he believed.)
McCarthy is particularly shameless, but he is, sadly, not alone. Former GOP elder statesman turned grumpy partisan Orrin Hatch, the Utah senator, dismissed the last week of awful legal news for Trump by claiming “Democrats will do anything to hurt this president.” Informed that the Cohen collusion charges were coming from the Southern District of New York, run by a Trump appointee, Hatch snarled at CNN’s Manu Raju, “Okay, but I don’t care; all I can say is he’s doing a good job as president.”
This is likely to be the default of most Republicans, from transactional partisan lightweights like McCarthy to purported former statesmen like Hatch. What do Democrats do in response?
I think they can duck the media’s push to make them immediately commit to impeachment—which the media would then trash as partisan and impossible—the way incoming House Judiciary Committee Jerrold Nadler chair did on Sunday: by committing to thoroughgoing investigations and to following them where they lead. Nadler acknowledged the problem of bringing impeachment charges when Republicans are stonewalling, but here’s the way he laid out the challenge so far:
We have to find out exactly what was going on. We have to look at these crimes, and what did the president know and when did he know about these crimes? You have to look at the Russian interference with the campaign, and what did the president know about that, and to what extent did he cooperate with that, if he did?
We have to look at his business dealings and his lying about that. We have to look at the fact that he surrounded himself with crooks. His campaign manager, his deputy campaign manager, his national security adviser, all of them, and a host, a bunch of other people, they all were meeting with the Russians. They all expressed interest in meeting again.
None of them reported it to the proper authorities. They have all been indicted for one crime or another. The president created his own swamp and brought it to the White House. These are all very serious things.
And we have to get to the bottom of this, find out what all the facts are, we and the special counsel, and then make decisions.
Meanwhile, Democrats must not cave to growing media and GOP insistence that House impeachment moves must be bipartisan. Given the statements of McCarthy and Hatch in the wake of all of the wrongdoing exposed last week, that would be letting Republicans hold them hostage. Even Jennifer Rubin, a former conservative who now mostly sides with Democrats, now argues that impeachment “must be a truly bipartisan action.”
But given the corruption of her former party, it may never be one (which Rubin acknowledges, making her most recent column one of her most disappointing since circa 2012).
The self-important James Comey insists Democrats should avoid impeachment and allow Trump to be rejected by a decisive majority of voters in 2020 (which might have occurred in the last election without Comey’s unfortunate anti-Clinton intervention in October 2016).
In fact, those two things aren’t mutually exclusive; an impeachment indictment in the House, even if rejected by the Senate, could nonetheless lay the groundwork for the American people to have the facts at hand to overwhelmingly reject Trump at the polls in 2020.
But Democrats have to take their responsibility to investigate—and if necessary, to impeach—very seriously, even if Republicans continue to shame themselves by defending Trump.
The largest voter cohort since World War II turned out in last month’s midterms. The 8 million more Democrats among them did not do so to allow their party to be held hostage by corrupt Republicans like McCarthy and Hatch. That’s been their game for the last 20 years, at least.
“The GOP is born anew each morning,” the blogger Digby joked darkly on Monday. The Democratic class of 2019 must have a much, much longer view.
He says, “We are the party of Lincoln. This party believes in the content of the individual.”
Ahistorical crap. Nearly 100 years after Lincoln's death the GOP became the Party of the Southern Strategy, an execrable race baiting appeal to white voters that a GOP Party chairman eventually publicly apologized for.
https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/GOP-renounces-60s-racial-strategy-Party-chair-2655173.php
GOP renounces '60s racial strategy / Party chair says using divisive issues to win white vote was wrong
Edwin Chen, Los Angeles Times
Published 4:00 am PDT, Friday, July 15, 2005
As for the 'content of the individual'? I'm pretty sure he forgot the content of the the original quote...rendering it meaningless and ironical.
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."
McCarthy was trying to claim the mantle of a sentiment that Trump just violated with his ignorant love it or leave it bullshit directed at 4 U.S. citizens.
See my next post for a better understanding of this nakedly partisan dumb-ass.
Apollo 11 U.S. Customs form after first moon landing by astronauts, 50 years ago
https://www.democraticunderground.com/11631584
Well I'm going to call your last few posts on this subject a wrap and an example of be careful what you ask for.....
Right Shermy?
And, it WAS fun and easy.
Not only did I read it I learned out to spell the word.