A round up of Trumpian events 🖕🍊🤡

Melz2 · December 10, 2018, 8:46pm

I’d already clocked the first bit of decent news, but not the second.

anon29537550 · December 10, 2018, 9:57pm

Chalk this up as another win.

Wanderfound · December 11, 2018, 1:05am

#TheAssistance

Avyctes · December 11, 2018, 1:29am

What’s the point of going along with Trump, even in a minimal way? I don’t understand, are they trying to prevent the country splitting down the middle? Newsflash, that’s already happened. I would give him the metaphorical finger and just block everything, that way you at least keep your own half happy.

Wanderfound · December 11, 2018, 1:33am

Their donors have a financial interest in maintaining business-as-usual, and their donors are who they serve.

https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/files/gilens_and_page_2014_-testing_theories_of_american_politics.doc.pdf

Each of four theoretical traditions in the study of American politics—which can be characterized as theories of Majoritarian Electoral Democracy, Economic-Elite Domination, and two types of interest-group pluralism, Majoritarian Pluralism and Biased Pluralism—offers different predictions about which sets of actors have how much influence over public policy: average citizens; economic elites; and organized interest groups, mass-based or business-oriented.
A great deal of empirical research speaks to the policy influence of one or another set of actors, but until recently it has not been possible to test these contrasting theoretical predictions against each other within a single statistical model. We report on an effort to do so, using a unique data set that includes measures of the key variables for 1,779 policy issues.
Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence. The results provide substantial support for theories of Economic-Elite Domination and for theories of Biased Pluralism, but not for theories of Majoritarian Electoral Democracy or Majoritarian Pluralism.

GulliverFoyle · December 11, 2018, 5:30am

This is more Late Stage Capitalism^™, but still…

d_r · December 11, 2018, 7:21am

When the Government shuts down it hurts the poor quite a bit, the rich not at all. That’s why the GOP is always happy to use it as a weapon of extortion.

Anyone else amused by this in @docosc post?

(Steve Case’s cousin Ed is my incoming congressman. Bluedog, completely out of step with the district, but his primary opponents were a pretty motley group.)

RickMycroft · December 11, 2018, 1:48pm

‘This is scientific censorship of the worst kind’: The Trump administration reportedly froze the acquisition of fetal tissue for research, including an HIV cure experiment

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/12/trump-administration-has-quietly-barred-nih-scientists-acquiring-fetal-tissue

anon61221983 · December 11, 2018, 2:01pm

That’s exactly what the GOP did when we elected a black guy to be president. They have to be the “better” people, though, no matter the cost to the country and their fellow human beings.

anon48584343 · December 11, 2018, 2:20pm

Democratic-spine

Keep in mind that typical items dealing with border security are not really that expensive. Cameras, acoustic sensors, motion sensors, networking, and personnel would total somewhere in the millions, NOT billions. $1.3 BILLION is a give away to trump and to defense contractors (Donors) gouging the country. Pelosi and Schumer are not doing us any favors here.

anon29537550 · December 11, 2018, 3:18pm

Is there no end to the bullshit? Really?

FGD135 · December 11, 2018, 3:29pm

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anon48584343 · December 11, 2018, 3:42pm

Whatever it takes to stroke off the steel industry.

emo_pinata · December 11, 2018, 3:52pm

I mean, it’s a lie and the wall shouldn’t be built. But the military (or more accurately a federal body with their own federal-employed work force) should be used as a public infrastructure development and construction group. It’s something our country desperately needs, and it shouldn’t be farmed out to private contracts. It would also give labor a seat of power in Washington.

anon29537550 · December 11, 2018, 3:56pm

This is absolutely true. Our infrastructure is crumbling in a way that should (but won’t) shame our elected leaders. But spending billions on a stupid boondoggle for xenophobic Trumpsters is of no benefit to anyone, other than the contractors who will rake in huge sums.

anon50609448 · December 11, 2018, 6:02pm

But I thought that was really only for a while, and at some point he just gave up.

anon61221983 · December 11, 2018, 6:06pm

Do any of us at this point? I don’t know how I feel about this any more, honestly.

anon48584343 · December 11, 2018, 6:28pm

Goddamned coward he is for thinking about just letting it happen. F him. If he really cared he’d turn evidence and just be done with it. These people really make me sick. John Kelly, a former military man, has absolutely no honor.

anon50609448 · December 11, 2018, 6:42pm

Well, I think it’s worth remembering that he’s an awful racist who is basically on board with the put-kids-in-cages agenda of the administration, he just doesn’t like Trump.

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