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Post by SSHoya on Jun 24, 2018 15:04:39 GMT -5
But as long as you "support his agenda" this is all good. Thanks GOP!! Thanks, very much!!! Corrupt as the day is long! The lobbyist whose wife rented Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt a room in a Capitol Hill condo at a discounted rate lobbied Pruitt’s chief of staff to hire a family friend, according to recently released agency emails. Steven Hart, who served as chairman of the law firm Williams & Jensen until earlier this year, contacted Pruitt’s chief of staff, Ryan Jackson, regarding administration policies affecting his clients and potential appointments to the EPA’s scientific advisory boards and possible agency hires. The emails, released in response to a lawsuit by the Sierra Club, an environmental advocacy group, show that both Hart and his wife — who rented Pruitt a condo for $50 a night, which he paid only on nights he stayed there — pushed for the EPA to hire Jimmy Guilliano, a recent college graduate. “I seldom talk to Scott but Vicki does,” Hart wrote to Jackson. “She has talked to Scott about this kid who is important to us. He told Vicki to talk to you about how to handle this. I am not sure personally that this is a good idea for Jimmy unless he is working near you. Sticking him down in the bowels is death at EPA. His family is all Naval Academy by the way.” www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2018/06/24/lobbyist-tied-to-pruitts-condo-rental-pushed-for-epa-to-hire-family-friend-emails-show/?utm_term=.548a5263b8f5And aren't you happier to be a GOPer after reading stuff like this (although you have to wonder why she'd want to be associated with Trump and the GOP): The chairwoman of the Minnesota Republican Party on Friday accused fellow Republicans in the state of making racist and sexist comments about her. Jennifer Carnahan, who was born in South Korea and adopted by Minnesotan parents, wrote in a post on her personal Facebook page that party leaders around the state have used “awful racial slurs,” according to a screenshot of the post obtained by the Minneapolis Star Tribune. “Some (sadly) Republican Party leaders/executive committee members around this state have made racist comments about me, and to me calling me — ‘dragon lady, a c----k, a stupid Asian not even born in America’ and other awful racial slurs,” she wrote, adding, “Not sure how these people still maintain their roles.” In the post, Carnahan wrote that the “daily” emails and social media posts from people, in addition to the comments from other party leaders, are “starting to get to” her. thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/393796-minnesota-gop-chairwoman-accuses-party-leaders-of-racist-insults
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Post by SSHoya on Jun 25, 2018 7:42:22 GMT -5
Harley-Davidson will move the production of motorcycles bound for European countries out of the United States, citing rising costs from European Union (EU) tariffs on their products. thehill.com/policy/finance/international-taxes/393899-harley-davidson-to-move-production-for-some-motorcycles“Increasing international production to alleviate the EU tariff burden is not the company’s preference, but represents the only sustainable option to make its motorcycles accessible to customers in the EU and maintain a viable business in Europe,” the company said. fortune.com/2018/06/25/harley-davidson-trump-trade-war-eu/Edward Alden, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, said the decision undermined the president’s claim that his “America First” trade stance would benefit manufacturing workers. “If Trump’s trade policies are leading an iconic company like Harley-Davidson to move production out of the United States, then who exactly is benefiting?” Alden said. “This will pose a real challenge to the president’s core claim that his policies will lead companies to build more things in the U.S.” Europe represents Harley’s No. 2 market, after the United States, with sales last year approaching 40,000 units. Shifting production to its non-U.S. plants will require additional investment overseas and is expected to take nine to 18 months, Harley said. The move is among the first signs that Trump’s use of tariffs, which he has promoted as a way to boost employment in the steel and aluminum industries, is hurting other American businesses. The company provided no details of the number of jobs that would be lost as a result of the production change. A company spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment. www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2018/06/25/harley-davidson-moves-work-offshore-to-limit-blow-from-trumps-trade-war/?utm_term=.4525a7357711
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Post by SSHoya on Jun 25, 2018 11:21:41 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on Jun 25, 2018 15:30:03 GMT -5
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Post by tashoya on Jun 25, 2018 21:23:57 GMT -5
You know what I find depressing? We're nearly 300 pages into this thread and much of it is about observable, legitimate problems Trump has caused or crises he's started or entire groups of Americans he's marginalized or allowed to suffer. And what's changed? We have educated people here still defending the current POTUS based on, as far as I can tell, the fact that Trump isn't Hillary or Obama. I'd be very interested in an explanation, as of late June 2018, why not being Hillary or Obama is still preferable to Hillary as President. I'm no fan of Hillary and wasn't particularly fond of Bill either. But, even if you're one of those people that are all in on the Clinton Foundation corruption and you buy every aspect of "Clinton Cash" as well as still being Editeded off about the email scandal and, for whatever reason, Benghazi, what Trump has done in a year and a half, IMO, makes all of that stuff look like child's play. And that's just the stuff we know about. Not the stuff that's still being investigated. What is preferable about this administration? I'd really love to hear a cogent explanation/argument because, for the most part, all that's available out in the real world is arguing. I'm not much interested in arguing but I would be interested in being better informed and having a real discussion about this stuff because, clearly, I'm missing the reasoning and logic behind the other side of these issues.
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Post by SSHoya on Jun 26, 2018 5:40:15 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on Jun 26, 2018 6:54:26 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2018 8:45:21 GMT -5
Someone needs to tell Trump that you're supposed to UNDERpromise and OVERdeliver. Not the opposite.
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Post by TC on Jun 26, 2018 8:49:35 GMT -5
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Post by Elvado on Jun 26, 2018 9:48:44 GMT -5
Travel Ban upheld.
Bigots.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2018 10:00:37 GMT -5
Travel Ban upheld. Bigots. There's not a lot of bigotry coming out of this administration. I know your pretty self centered and like to troll, but It's not a joke for some of us.
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Post by Elvado on Jun 26, 2018 10:11:53 GMT -5
Travel Ban upheld. Bigots. There's not a lot of bigotry coming out of this administration. I know your pretty self centered and like to troll, but It's not a joke for some of us. I think you mean there is a lot of bigotry and I won’t argue that point. However, every time a decision does not go a particular direction is not a license to yell bigotry either.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2018 10:36:05 GMT -5
There's not a lot of bigotry coming out of this administration. I know your pretty self centered and like to troll, but It's not a joke for some of us. I think you mean there is a lot of bigotry and I won’t argue that point. However, every time a decision does not go a particular direction is not a license to yell bigotry either. No, I mean specifically from this administration... A Supreme Court ruling doesn't mean a policy isn't born in bigotry. The Supreme Court upheld the right to have Japanese internment camps in multiple cases, Korematsu v. United States being the most famous. They ruled in favor of slavery in the Dred Scott case, against interracial marriage (Pace v. Alabama (1883), and "separate but equal" was upheld by the Supreme Court. The policies put forth in these cases, that the Supreme Court upheld, seem pretty bigoted to me. Do you disagree?
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Post by TC on Jun 26, 2018 11:08:39 GMT -5
Travel Ban upheld. Bigots. 7 minutes later you admit Trump is a bigot in another thread, the amount of cognitive dissonance in this trolling is absolutely staggering.
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Post by SSHoya on Jun 26, 2018 13:07:57 GMT -5
For you Trump supporters/enablers who don't believe there is a "moral component" to the leadership of this country: This is Trump’s leadership legacy: Because he continues to push the boundaries of decency in rhetoric and action, those around him must prove their dedication by parting with their integrity and moral judgment. The least reluctance is taken as betrayal. The same dynamic can be discerned among Trump’s political followers. He has asked them to cross line after moral line — to accept a racially charged conspiracy theory about President Barack Obama’s origins, to accept the demonization of Mexican migrants, to accept systematic prejudice against people of the Islamic faith, to accept that there were “fine people” among the white supremacists in Charlottesville, to accept the punishment of Hispanic children for the transgressions of their parents. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/loyalty-to-trump-demands-a-lack-of-character/2018/06/25/416d7b3c-78b4-11e8-80be-6d32e182a3bc_story.html?utm_term=.39325f536d0f
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Post by SSHoya on Jun 26, 2018 15:47:54 GMT -5
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Post by Elvado on Jun 27, 2018 4:59:13 GMT -5
So as we await the Supreme Court ruling on Public Sector Union Dues, it occurs to me that it will likely be 5-4 with Kennedy casting the deciding vote one way or the other.
Why is it that the group of Breyer, Sotomayor, Kagan and Ginsburg are never referred to as a lockstep block of ideologues like Alito, Roberts, Thomas and Gorsuch are?
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Post by SSHoya on Jun 27, 2018 6:20:53 GMT -5
Justices Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor and Kagan, appointed by Democratic presidents, comprise the Court's liberal wing. ... Gorsuch had a track record as a reliably conservative judge in the 10th circuit. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_StatesEven the "fake news" NYTimes call the four the "liberal side" of the SCT: Siding With the Liberal Wing Since Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. joined the Supreme Court in 2005, there have been more than 100 5-to-4 decisions. In 30 of these decisions, the majority has included the court’s four most liberal members and another justice. (Nice graphics of the liberal wing included!) archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/06/28/us/supreme-court-liberal-wing-5-4-decisions.html?hpThe Court is operating at a reduced level while waiting for a ninth justice who will determine whether the conservative or liberal wing will have a majority. Call it Schrodinger’s Court. Like the cat in the box who is both alive and dead, the Court finds itself in a state of quantum superposition, a possible far-right Court shimmering simultaneously beside and within an equally ectoplasmic liberal one. Senate Republicans have made it clear there won’t be a ninth justice until they know whether their party will hold the White House. President Obama has nominated Merrick Garland, a moderate centrist respected by everybody (except perhaps Wayne LaPierre), to replace the late Antonin Scalia; Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton has urged the Senate to confirm Garland before the election, but remained coy about what she will do if they do not and she wins in November. Donald Trump, meanwhile, has released a list of highly conservative potential nominees for the Garland vacancy if he wins. The Republican party has Donald Trump’s word on that. www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/09/schrodingers-supreme-court/498707/The decision went 5-4, with Justice Neil Gorsuch, nominated last year by President Donald Trump, joining the Court’s liberal wing. But Gorsuch’s vote in the case (which he explained in a concurring opinion, rather than signing on to the main opinion written by Justice Elena Kagan in full) shouldn’t be seen as an indication that he’s going to side with liberals in immigration cases generally, because the rulings were only kind of about immigration. www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/4/17/17248094/neil-gorsuch-immigration-trump-supreme-court
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Post by Elvado on Jun 27, 2018 6:23:15 GMT -5
Justices Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor and Kagan, appointed by Democratic presidents, comprise the Court's liberal wing. ... Gorsuch had a track record as a reliably conservative judge in the 10th circuit. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_StatesEven the "fake news" NYTimes call the four the "liberal side" of the SCT: Siding With the Liberal Wing Since Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. joined the Supreme Court in 2005, there have been more than 100 5-to-4 decisions. In 30 of these decisions, the majority has included the court’s four most liberal members and another justice. archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/06/28/us/supreme-court-liberal-wing-5-4-decisions.html?hpThe Court is operating at a reduced level while waiting for a ninth justice who will determine whether the conservative or liberal wing will have a majority. Call it Schrodinger’s Court. Like the cat in the box who is both alive and dead, the Court finds itself in a state of quantum superposition, a possible far-right Court shimmering simultaneously beside and within an equally ectoplasmic liberal one. Senate Republicans have made it clear there won’t be a ninth justice until they know whether their party will hold the White House. President Obama has nominated Merrick Garland, a moderate centrist respected by everybody (except perhaps Wayne LaPierre), to replace the late Antonin Scalia; Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton has urged the Senate to confirm Garland before the election, but remained coy about what she will do if they do not and she wins in November. Donald Trump, meanwhile, has released a list of highly conservative potential nominees for the Garland vacancy if he wins. The Republican party has Donald Trump’s word on that. www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/09/schrodingers-supreme-court/498707/The decision went 5-4, with Justice Neil Gorsuch, nominated last year by President Donald Trump, joining the Court’s liberal wing. But Gorsuch’s vote in the case (which he explained in a concurring opinion, rather than signing on to the main opinion written by Justice Elena Kagan in full) shouldn’t be seen as an indication that he’s going to side with liberals in immigration cases generally, because the rulings were only kind of about immigration. www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/4/17/17248094/neil-gorsuch-immigration-trump-supreme-courtLiberal wing vs right wing ideologues...
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Post by CTHoya08 on Jun 27, 2018 6:30:18 GMT -5
Nice goalpost move there.
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