Guys guys...I was banned on r/the_donald today! To be honest it was a shitpost, but it was like a rite of passage.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.05a379eed7c1
And there go the days of the POTUS not commenting on Fed actions in an effort to ensure their independence.
Except he's no longer a private citizen, and should not be behaving as one. At least he's open about the fact that he gives no fucks about tradition. Good thing he's the head of the party that obsesses over tradition.“Now I’m just saying the same thing that I would have said as a private citizen,” Trump said, according to CNBC. “So somebody would say, ‘Oh, maybe you shouldn’t say that as president. I couldn’t care less what they say, because my views haven’t changed.”
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https://thinkprogress.org/trump-admi...-128ddf67348f/
In context, it's hard not to see this as a transparently racist attempt to keep non-white immigrants, who are less likely to have subsidized health insurance or meet the income requirements, out.The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is considering a plan that would drastically and unilaterally restrict legal immigration to only the wealthiest and most privileged applicants.
An archaic federal immigration provision called the “public charge” test is currently being drafted by the Trump administration. Immigrants coming to the United States would generally fail this new rewritten test if they had a medical condition and no source of subsidized health insurance.
The test also places a premium on an applicant’s income and assets. Applicants must make at least 250 percent of the federal poverty guidelines, which, in 2018, means $30,350 for a one-person household and $62,750 for a four-person household. By comparison, the average American working full-time typically makes around $51,640 for men and $41,554 for women.
According to a new report from the Center For American Progress, if every American citizen were forced to take the Trump administration’s test, more than 100 million people — roughly one-third of the U.S. population — would fail. The report also estimates that at least half of all people in the country could fail the test over a period of several years, when factoring in possible economic downturns, job insecurity, health problems, or other factors. (ThinkProgress is an editorially independent newsroom housed within the Center for American Progress.)
Just another effort on the part of this racist administration to "make america white again".
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Hey remember when Republicans/conservatives were all about conserving our land/earth?
This is something only Snidely Whiplash would support...
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-a8450531.html
So apparently a Trump supporter called into Cspan to thank Russia for helping Trump win. Some of them aren't even hiding it anymore I guess.
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https://www.vox.com/2018/7/19/175863...ce-republicans
And unsurprisingly, Republicans are swallowing the lies and propaganda from Trump and conservative media and largely don't believe the fact that Russia interfered in elections. Fucking pathetic and disgusting.
Lol Trump wants Putin to visit in the Fall. Great way to sabotage his party's midterms.
Voters have short attention spans. There's nothing like reminding them about his love for Russia over the US right before the election. Did he forget about all those special elections that he helped to lose?
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Not that i'm asking for it, because it would just martyr the man child, but how the fuck has he not been shot yet?
The problems in America are all caused by the dEeP sTaTe!!!1!111!!!!
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Seriously. That event would be extremely dangerous for the nation. It would take all the crap that's happened now and ratchet the chaos up exponentially. I'm sure Pence would use it to clamp down on the country. Martial law, fascism, thoughtpolice, and other terrifying circumstances. I bet that could be in Putin's playbook.
Pence would be just as bad.
Abortion would be gone, he'd make it illegal to be gay while secretly taking all kind of dick himself, And woman wouldnt be allowed to drive cars
All because of thousands of years old scripture some dude wrote out in the desert when tripping on magic mushrooms
So the Orange Moron wants to invite Putin to the US for another summit.
I say YES! Please do this! This is something I support.
Democrats are the best! I will never ever question a Democrat again. I LOVE the Democrats!
http://thehill.com/homenews/administ...of-legal-teams
Welp, the special master determined 1400 of the roughly 4000 documents that Cohen's lawyers said were privileged aren't actually privileged. That's gotta sting.
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https://slate.com/news-and-politics/...permanent.html
The Trump administration and appointed officials literally kidnapped these children without any intention of reuniting them with their parents. There doesn't seem to be any way to spin it. This is authoritarian, racist bullshit.“[During a Wednesday meeting], Trump Administration officials made a startling confession—they had no interagency plan in place to reunite children with their parents when Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced President Trump’s ‘zero tolerance’ policy in April,” the trio of Congressman announced on Thursday. “Even if they believed their new policy was the right one, how could they have been so heartless not to have planned to reunite these children with their parents?”
This is a question that should haunt this country for years: Did our government plan to make effective orphans of thousands of children who came here with loving parents?
Again, the plain answer seems to be: “Yes.”
Here’s what happened when the Democratic Congressmen raised the issue with Commander Jonathan White, the Deputy Director for Children Services, Administration for Children and Families at the Office of Refugee Resettlement.
[W]hen asked whether a reunification plan was in place on April 6, 2018, Commander White answered: “There was not at that time a specialized plan.” Commander White acknowledged that the Trump Administration began more detailed planning for reunifications only when forced to do so by court order.