Anything that will hurt a blue state is fair game in this admin. No end to the assholery.
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I am looking forward to the eventual split of the Union. Blue States / Red States. Everybody will be so much happier.
Well, maybe not the Red State Fox People, they seem to be perpetually unhappy no matter what.
Nope, won’t happen. The big population centers in the red states are blue, the large rural counties in the blue states are red. There are no neat dividing lines like “slave vs free” this time around. If things go totally sideways, there will be no happy people, just a whole lotta dead ones.
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Exactly!
But there really wasn’t during the civil war anyway, as Virginia split, and a couple of other slave states stayed in the union, plus there were pockets of unionism all over the south during the war itself, not to mention the enslaved, who fled and fought for the union. It’s never been neat and tidy divisions like people like to imagine, now or then.
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I mean, not like I ever believed his promises of building world-class infrastructure in the US (which is about the one thing that both the R’s and D’s can agree on) but this just further proves he has no intent in actually improving anything. He’s already cancelled funding for numerous planned infrastructure projects just to spite blue states – this is just another one to add to the list.
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Ironically, these are three issues he seems to be having troubles with
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Sigh. Here we go again.
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I should note, for context, that “early Thursday” means absolutely no later than 6:23 AM, which is the time stamp of the first tweet about it in my timeline. These fuckers got up early to do this.
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When even Lindsay fucking Graham is saying his immigration plan is a nonstarter, you know it’s really awful.
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Life may imitate art, but can we please draw the line at satire?
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I was really surprised by this:
http://lite.cnn.io/en/article/h_f1908d4dfbdaafe93ce7eefc36358a94
“You will get more points for being a younger worker, meaning you will contribute more to our social safety net. You will get more points for having a valuable skill, an offer of employment, an advanced education or a plan to create jobs,” Trump said.
So… We’re into social safety nets this week? What?
“We want immigrants coming in. We cherish the open door that we want to create for our country,” he said. “But a big proportion of those immigrants must come in through merit and skill.”
So, we’re cool with immigrants this week? What? Just wait until his supporters figure out this mostly refers to people from Asia.
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The usual term for Arabic numerals is “Arabic numerals,” which is what the quiz asked about.
The usual term for the Big Bang theory is “the Big Bang theory,” which is not what the quiz asked about.
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Well, much as I like to throw shit at Trump and his pals, that article is complete and utter shite.
If the law as passed is defective, then saying “Hey, legislators, you cocked up. Have another go if you really care about this” is perfectly reasonable.
The article (leaving aside the hyperbole) essentially consists of complaining that the DoJ has decided there is no point appealing the decision because they’d lose.
That’s sort of how these things are supposed to go.
They are then required to report that decision to Congress which is what they’ve done.
It’s not simply a letter to a random Congressperson as the article leads one to suggest.
It’s the DoJ’s formal report to Congress delivered in this instance to Dianne Feinstein in her capacity as ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The same report will have gone to others as required by the relevant legislation:
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/28/530D
It’s worth reading the actual letter (which to be fair to Raw Story they do link to):
It’s rather different than “oh well, we don’t care about this so we’re not doing anything.”
They acknowledge the serious harm caused by FGM and state that the department ‘urges’ Congress to pass legislation and that concurrently with the letter, the department is submitting specific legislative proposals to Congress to fix the problem identified in the case.
Although it seems to me the problem is more the US constitutional system which means that the Federal government has limited ability to actually address the issue.
You also know that Lindsay Graham will vote for it, so we’ll have to wait and see.
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Did not know that Mad Libs made a book about hate groups
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The ‘whistleblower’ is quite interesting:
Essentially Hope not Hate appear to have taken over the sort of role you’d expect the security services to be fulfilling. It’s all a little odd.
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And how many letters went to trump properties?
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Two parties one Mall. Ugggggh.
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