US politics general thread

[greg0205]

Hehe... TYT had the best lede - Beta vs Beto

Too good not to share with the class.

 

[OrbitalDawn]

Inside The Trump Administration’s Secret War On Weed

The White House has secretly amassed a committee of federal agencies from across the government to combat public support for marijuana and cast state legalization measures in a negative light, while attempting to portray the drug as a national threat, according to interviews with agency staff and documents obtained by BuzzFeed News.

The Marijuana Policy Coordination Committee, as it’s named in White House memos and emails, instructed 14 federal agencies and the Drug Enforcement Administration this month to submit “data demonstrating the most significant negative trends” about marijuana and the “threats” it poses to the country.

In an ironic twist, the committee complained in one memo that the narrative around marijuana is unfairly biased in favor of the drug. But rather than seek objective information, the committee’s records show it is asking officials only to portray marijuana in a negative light, regardless of what the data show.

 

[Cray]

Inside The Trump Administration’s Secret War On Weed

Politicians love their wars, the war on drugs being the most treasured...

 

[daveza]

submit “data demonstrating the most significant negative trends” about marijuana and the “threats” it poses to the country.

Good luck with that, the threat to the nation is zero.

 

[OrbitalDawn]

[URL='https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/us-is-denying-passports-to-americans-along-the-border-throwing-their-citizenship-into-question/2018/08/29/1d630e84-a0da-11e8-a3dd-2a1991f075d5_story.html']U.S. denies passports to Americans along border, questioning their citizenship [/url]

On paper, he’s a devoted U.S. citizen.

His official American birth certificate shows he was delivered by a midwife in Brownsville, at the southern tip of Texas. He spent his life wearing American uniforms: three years as a private in the Army, then as a cadet in the Border Patrol and now as a state prison guard.

But when Juan, 40, applied to renew his U.S. passport this year, the government’s response floored him. In a letter, the State Department said it didn’t believe he was an American citizen.

As he would later learn, Juan is one of a growing number of people whose official birth records show they were born in the United States but who are now being denied passports — their citizenship suddenly thrown into question. The Trump administration is accusing hundreds, and possibly thousands, of Hispanics along the border of using fraudulent birth certificates since they were babies, and it is undertaking a widespread crackdown.

In some cases, passport applicants with official U.S. birth certificates are being jailed in immigration detention centers and entered into deportation proceedings. In others, they are stuck in Mexico, their passports suddenly revoked when they tried to reenter the United States.

 

[OrbitalDawn]

Republican Senator Blocks Amendment to End US Support for Saudi Arabia in Yemen

The biggest campaign contributors to Senator Shelby, who blocked the amendment, are defense contractors that have major arms deals with Saudi Arabia.

 

[cerebus]

U.S. denies passports to Americans along border, questioning their citizenship

"But they're illegal immigrants".

Not a problem let's just move this thing a bit more to the right...

 

[OrbitalDawn]

"But they're illegal immigrants".

Not a problem let's just move this thing a bit more to the right...

Well, they found *another* white nationalist working on immigration policy at DHS...

Emails Link Former Homeland Security Official to White Nationalists

And the racism train was in full swing in Florida, too...

First the GOP nominee for governor says voters shouldn't "monkey it up" by voting for the black Dem candidate. And then when he got in a huff that he's totally not a racist, it got out that he's an admin on a Facebook group for racists and bigots of all stripes. Other admins include Kelli Ward, the nutcase who lost the Arizona primary GOP election yesterday, and neo-Confederate GOP Senate candidate in Virginia, Corey Stewart.

Gosh, how does this keep happening.

 

[The_Assimilator]

Well, they found *another* white nationalist working on immigration policy at DHS...

Emails Link Former Homeland Security Official to White Nationalists

And the racism train was in full swing in Florida, too...

First the GOP nominee for governor says voters shouldn't "monkey it up" by voting for the black Dem candidate. And then when he got in a huff that he's totally not a racist, it got out that he's an admin on a Facebook group for racists and bigots of all stripes. Other admins include Kelli Ward, the nutcase who lost the Arizona primary GOP election yesterday, and neo-Confederate GOP Senate candidate in Virginia, Corey Stewart.

Gosh, how does this keep happening.

I hope that Gillum wins so that these racists have aneurysms.

 

[OrbitalDawn]

Fresh from repeatedly lying about coal plants in West Virginia, Trump turns his lie-trumpet on cars in Pennsylvania.

Trump has said twice this month that car companies are moving back to Pennsylvania. Bernard Swiecki of the Center for Automotive Research notes, "There are no assembly plants in Pennsylvania at all."

 

[Frequent visitor]

Fresh from repeatedly lying about coal plants in West Virginia, Trump turns his lie-trumpet on cars in Pennsylvania.

Please don't let the facts get in the way of a good story!!!!

 

[Frequent visitor]

I have a step brother in law, who married a US army officer. He had been a UK naval officer, leaving after the Falkland affair, so has been around. He went to live in Charleston in the USA, and described it as the most racist place he had ever been. He comes across as measured and sensible. It seems even the Civil War changed little.

 

[OrbitalDawn]

I have a step brother in law, who married a US army officer. He had been a UK naval officer, leaving after the Falkland affair, so has been around. He went to live in Charleston in the USA, and described it as the most racist place he had ever been. He comes across as measured and sensible. It seems even the Civil War changed little.

Charleston and South Carolina have a pretty infamous place in American history.

Was there that after the Civil War, when Reconstruction was starting to show some gains, terrorists effectively took over the state.

https://www.motherjones.com/politic...-civil-war-reconstruction-eric-foner-history/

Some useful context as backdrop to the trial of Dylann Roof.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/02/06/inside-the-trial-of-dylann-roof

 

[OrbitalDawn]

[URL='http://thehill.com/policy/international/404173-qatar-attempted-to-lobby-mike-huckabee-dershowitz-to-influence-trump']Qatar targeted 250 "Trump influencers" to change US policy. [/url]

Qatar has sought to lobby some 250 people who might be able to influence President Trump on policy, including former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) and attorney Alan Dershowitz, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.

People on the list even traveled to Doha, the capital of Qatar, the Journal reported. Some, including Dershowitz, said they now feel duped because they had been unaware that the trips were tied to state lobbying.

Dershowitz praised Qatar in an opinion column for The Hill after the visit.

Dershowitz declined to discuss if he received any money, but told the Journal, “I don’t make long trips to foreign countries paying my own way.”

Huckabee was paid a previously reported $50,000 honorarium for his visit to Qatar by Allaham. He did not respond to the Journal’s request for comment.

 

[Techne]

Gosh, even Berny bros see through the Russiagate saga and the rest.... just don't seem to care.

 

[Lucas Buck]

Gosh, even Berny bros see through the Russiagate saga and the rest.... just don't seem to care.

Sensationalist headline to that video clip. From what I've read cnn was not caught lying. One of their sources retracted his statement.
They wont rectract because they claim to have another source( time will tell whether this is true or not).

The story received renewed attention last week after Davis appeared on CNN with Anderson Cooper and bluntly misrepresented his involvement with the story.

“I think the reporting of the story got mixed up in the course of a criminal investigation,” he told Cooper on live television. “We were not the source of the story.”

On Monday evening, he confessed to BuzzFeed that he was, in fact, a source for the CNN report and apologized for saying otherwise to Cooper. “I made a mistake,” he told the website, adding, “I did not mean to be cute.”

For someone who is anti media you don't seem to be bother sifting through the information obtained from your superior online sources.

 

[daveza]

 

[greg0205]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1035348264344801282

Who wants to tell him?

 

[Unhappy438]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1035348264344801282

Who wants to tell him?

not just him, the entire crowd. With stupidity like this rampant in the US its little wonder this man is president.

 

[greg0205]

Peak Trump in court today. His lawyers asked the court to dismiss the Trump Foundation case 'cos....



















... Former Attorney General Schneiderman didn't investigate the Clinton Foundation enough.

The "whatabout" defence... Bu dum tss!

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1035537748898275332