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Reach for the stars, sun, moon or Mars. Trump thread 94

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lionheart · 07/06/2019 22:27

www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-07/trump-s-tariffs-have-wiped-out-most-families-tax-cut-gains

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PerkingFaintly · 08/07/2019 09:00

@FoxNews** is changing fast, but they forgot the people who got them there

Well that's amusing!

Who got whom there, sweetie?

Lweji · 08/07/2019 11:31

Roger Ailes?

There's a new series about him with non other than The Russell Crowe, I hear.

cozietoesie · 08/07/2019 12:02

Oh My.

....The layoffs have started at Deutsche Bank as the struggling lender embarks on a dramatic overhaul that will reduce its workforce by 18,000.....

cozietoesie · 08/07/2019 15:54

It rather looks as if Jerome has gone native - we'll have to wait until the Fed announcement. 31 July?

AcrossthePond55 · 08/07/2019 16:27

What started that diatribe against Fox?

Hmmm, could it be that he wants to discredit ALL news sources before he's implicated by one (or all) of them in the Epstein scandal? That tweet tried to discredit just about every major news source in the US.

Latest Sir Kim conspiracy doing the rounds......Trump told Putin to tell one of his (Putin's) operatives to leak the info so Sir Kim would be fired as US Amb and replaced by Nigel Farage.

MerdedeBrexit · 08/07/2019 16:36

That's why Farage is particularly pushing for Sir Kim's removal, clearly. Prat. Anyhow, Sir Kim was only voicing what any intelligent person already knew, from his own personal experience of the orange phenomenon.

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AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 08/07/2019 17:33

I think I heard Farage on the World Service this morning saying that he would be a good person to form a relationship with our allies -- I assume he meant "I would be a great ambassador to the US, giss a job."

Lweji · 08/07/2019 17:37

Trump's corruption increasing thanks to his (not so) hidden (and not only) enabler

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/07/08/trumps-corruption-is-getting-worse-thanks-his-hidden-enabler/

Roussette · 08/07/2019 19:16

To add to that link above, Sebastian Gorka and Steve Bannon will also be giving speeches.

Awful

MerdedeBrexit · 08/07/2019 19:26

Apparently, I've already had my quota of free articles from the WaPost this month - could someone be kind enough cut and paste that last one Lweji posted, please? Thank you!
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/07/08/trumps-corruption-is-getting-worse-thanks-his-hidden-enabler/

Roussette · 08/07/2019 19:28

Ditto Meredede

PerkingFaintly · 08/07/2019 19:58

Rousette's link from the Independent is actually from October 2017, but still a valuable reminder.

Donald Trump to become first president to speak at anti-LGBT hate group's annual summit
'Homosexual conduct is harmful to the persons who engage in it and to society at large, and can never be affirmed,' say summit's host
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-anti-lgbt-address-hate-group-summit-meeting-first-president-us-homphobia-a7997401.html

The US president will become the first sitting president to address social conservative activists and elected officials at the Value Voters Summit in Washington DC on Friday.

President Trump has addressed the event which is hosted by the Family Research Council three times in total and did so last year as the Republican presidential candidate.

The Family Research Council opposes and actively lobbies against equal rights for LGBT persons. The conservative Christian group campaigns against same-sex marriage, same-sex civil unions, LGBT adoption, abortion, embryonic stell-cell research, pornography and divorce.

PerkingFaintly · 08/07/2019 20:27

So now, WTF? Confused

Trump sharpens attack on UK ambassador Kim Darroch over emails
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-48914294

US President Donald Trump has stepped up his attack on the UK's ambassador in Washington, saying "we will no longer deal with him".
[...]
"The good news for the wonderful United Kingdom is they will soon have a new Prime Minister."

PerkingFaintly · 08/07/2019 20:33

So Trump is insulting the current UK Prime Minister (who was not responsible for the ambassador's comments).

He's also saying that the current UK ambassador (Kim Darroch) to the US will no longer be effective.

So the UK might chose to replace Sir Kim. Presumably May could do this immediately, and it needn't wait for the new PM.

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lionheart · 08/07/2019 20:40

WP--in part, I am not sure about the rules when it comes to copying the whole thing.

'Extraordinary new details are emerging about President Trump’s efforts to rig the census to benefit the Republican Party — and those details provide an occasion to take stock of William P. Barr’s role as hidden enabler of the president’s deepening corruption.

We are now seeing Trump’s attorney general assume this role on multiple fronts — and we are only beginning to glimpse the damage that could result from all of it.

The Justice Department just announced that it will swap out the lawyers who are representing the administration in the legal battle over the effort to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census. This battle continues because Trump ordered the administration to keep fighting to add the question, even though officials had surrendered after the Supreme Court ruled against it.

As The Post reports, the change in the legal team might signal “legal or ethical concerns” about Trump’s handling of the affair. One source said such concerns were harbored by some “career attorneys.”'

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lionheart · 08/07/2019 20:48

'It gets worse. A Justice Department lawyer tells the New York Times that due to the switch, no lawyers from the division that defends administration policies in court — the federal programs branch — will be working on the case.

The Times adds that the move strongly suggests that career lawyers “decided to quit a case that at the least seemed to lack a legal basis,” or worse, could force them to defend statements that “could well turn out to be untrue.”

Tellingly, the Times reports that those career lawyers appear to have concluded that “there were difficulties in finding a new justification” for the citizenship question “that would not seem invented out of whole cloth.”

Translation: The lawyers knew they couldn’t come up with another fake rationale to replace the last fake rationale, without it being blindingly obvious that the new one is just as fake as the last one.'

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lionheart · 08/07/2019 20:53

Barr on Mueller:

apnews.com/413061794ba14c6eb15173251388fcbc

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PerkingFaintly · 08/07/2019 21:34

Detailed article about the carefully engineered continuing rise of the far right across the world. Very worth a read – particularly about how they change their vocabulary and deliberately target a new generation.

Is there a growing far-right threat online?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-48830980

Ebner says that recruiters tailor their messages depending on where they are: "To recruit people from the gaming community, they would use a very "gamified" approach. When trying to recruit someone from the ultra-libertarian platforms, they would emphasise topics around freedom of speech. When trying to lure people from the conspiracy networks into their far-right channels, they would immediately reference those conspiracy theories."

Generation Identity and the identitarians are the most dynamic and fastest-growing part of the new right, she says. And they demonstrate an understanding of their young audience. "They use a lot of gamification elements, but also make references to pop culture and develop their own insider jokes."

PerkingFaintly · 08/07/2019 21:38

Eg the Charlottesville "Unite the Right" was partly organised on Discord, which is largely used by gamers.

There were obvious signs in the pre-rally chatter that it might be violent.

Roussette · 08/07/2019 21:47

Ooopsie. This is going to make ole Trumpy apoplectic...

Trump can't be shielded by Barr now

www.rawstory.com/2019/07/bill-barr-recused-himself-from-the-jeffrey-epstein-case-after-questions-about-their-relationship/

PerkingFaintly · 08/07/2019 21:57

Oooh!

Trumpy doesn't like it when his AGs recuse themselves. Not after he's chosen them specially to protect him.Grin