US politics general thread

[OrbitalDawn]

https://www.thestar.com/news/world/...-he-isnt-compromising-at-all-with-canada.html

High-stakes trade negotiations between Canada and the U.S. were dramatically upended on Friday morning after inflammatory secret remarks by President Donald Trump were obtained by the Toronto Star.

In comments Trump wanted to be “off the record,” the U.S. president told Bloomberg News reporters on Thursday that he is not making any compromises at all in the talks with Canada — but that he cannot say this publicly because “it’s going to be so insulting they’re not going to be able to make a deal.”

“Here’s the problem. If I say no — the answer’s no. If I say no, then you’re going to put that, and it’s going to be so insulting they’re not going to be able to make a deal ... I can’t kill these people,” Trump said of the Canadian government.

In another remark he did not want published, Trump said that the possible deal with Canada would be “totally on our terms.” He suggested he was scaring the Canadians into submission by repeatedly threatening to impose tariffs.

Art of the deal.

 

[RanzB]

Arkansas State Senator Jeremy Hutchinson Indicted on Wire and Tax Fraud Charges

Are any Republicans not crooks?

 

[Techne]

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).

Lol, have faith.

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

Who ever thinks the Jimmy Dore Show is a superior online source for anything? It is a failed-comedian show for dopey Bernie bros that mocks MSM propaganda and the people that still buy their BS propaganda. It is like watching a train wreck of a train that accidentally crashed into CNN's headquarters.

 

[RanzB]

Papadopoulos: Trump 'Approved' Proposed Meeting With Putin Ahead of 2016 Election

Former campaign adviser George Papadopoulos claims Donald Trump supported his proposal of a meeting with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin ahead of the 2016 presidential election.
Papadopoulos, a former foreign policy aide to Trump’s campaign, has pled guilty to misleading FBI agents probing allegations of collusion between Russia and Trump officials.

Omg, another witch? From where on earth are all these witches popping up?

Lemme guess though, the known grifter, cheat and liar is the only one telling the truth and everyone else is lying?

 

[OrbitalDawn]

Arkansas State Senator Jeremy Hutchinson Indicted on Wire and Tax Fraud Charges

Are any Republicans not crooks?

There are, but they're racist.

County GOP official called NFL players who kneel ‘baboons’

Papadopoulos: Trump 'Approved' Proposed Meeting With Putin Ahead of 2016 Election



Omg, another witch? From where on earth are all these witches popping up?

Lemme guess though, the known grifter, cheat and liar is the only one telling the truth and everyone else is lying?

He also said Sessions approved it.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...roposal-former-campaign-adviser-idUSKCN1LH3JW

 

[OrbitalDawn]

https://www.ipsos.com/en-us/news-polls/americans-views-media-2018-08-07

48% of Republicans believe the press is the enemy of the people, and 43% believe the president should have the power to shut down news organizations.

 

[OrbitalDawn]

'Tricked by the devil.' They backed Trump. Now, his foreign labor cuts may ruin them.

Eddie Devine voted for President Donald Trump because he thought he would be good for American business. Now, he says, the Trump administration’s restrictions on seasonal foreign labor may put him out of business.

“I feel like I’ve been tricked by the devil,” said Devine, owner of Harrodsburg-based Devine Creations Landscaping. “I feel so stupid.”

Devine says it has been years since he could find enough dependable, drug-free American workers for his $12-an-hour jobs mowing and tending landscapes for cemeteries, shopping centers and apartment complexes across Central Kentucky.

So for years he has hired 20 seasonal workers, mostly from Guatemala, through the U.S. Labor Department’s H2-B “guest worker” program.

...

Devine says he lost a $100,000 account because he didn’t have enough men to do the job. He’s worried he may be out of business next year if things don’t improve.

He isn’t alone. Cuts in H-2B visas are hurting small businesses across the country that can’t find Americans willing to do hard, manual labor: Maryland crab processors, Texas shrimp fishermen, and Kentucky landscapers and construction companies.

“We live and die by these visas,” said Ken Monin, owner of Monin Construction, which specializes in home additions, roofs, decks and garages. “Last year we about went bankrupt. The workers we were supposed to get in March didn’t show up until August because they couldn’t get visas.”

Monin applied for eight H-2B workers this year, but he isn’t optimistic he will get any. Employers seeking H-2B workers must prove they have advertised and tried unsuccessfully to hire local workers.

“Americans don’t want most of these jobs,” said Monin, who pays his workers about $17 an hour. “I’ve been in this business 20 years. It’s hard, hot work.”

Monin said if he doesn’t find enough workers somewhere this summer, he may go out of business, which would cost his three American employees their jobs.

lol @:

Devine said he believed Trump’s America-first promises. But cutting off a good supply of seasonal foreign labor when Americans won’t take those jobs is only hurting American business owners and the U.S. workers they employ, he said.

These workers aren’t immigrants, and there is no path to U.S. citizenship. When their seasonal work is done, they return home. That’s why Devine thinks the Trump administration’s stifling of guest-worker programs has more to do with racism than economics. “I think there’s a war on brown people,” he said.

But what makes him most angry is that Trump’s properties in Florida and New York have used 144 H-2B workers since 2016. “I want to know why it’s OK for him to get his workers, but supporters like me don’t get theirs,” Devine said.

 

[rietrot]

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018...nd-putin-pal-admits-collusion-secret-meetings

Russian Oligarch Oleg Deripaska, a close associate of Vladimir Putin, has gone on record with The Hill's John Solomon - admitting to colluding with Americans leading up to the 2016 US election, except it might not be what you're thinking.

 

[The_Assimilator]

“I want to know why it’s OK for him to get his workers, but supporters like me don’t get theirs,” Devine said.

Because you're a chump, Eddie. One of many useful chumps who vote for the orange cheeto and are now getting their just rewards.

 

[sox63]

President Donald Trump said he’s canceling pay raises for most federal workers that were to take effect in January, citing “serious economic conditions” and the strain that the raises would place on the federal budget.

http://fortune.com/2018/08/30/trump..._socialflow_twitter_FORTUNE&utm_medium=social

I found this rather ironic seeing as though almost every opportunity he gets he tells the world the US economy is in great shape...

 

[Cray]

There are, but they're racist.

County GOP official called NFL players who kneel ‘baboons’

Maloney, an avid Trump supporter, appeared on CNN’s “The Van Jones Show” last month to discuss immigration

Colour me surprised....

 

[greg0205]

Active.Measures.2018.1080p.HULU.WEBRip.AAC2.0.x264-NTG

Been waiting for this since the 31st and it's a really, really good watch... 'tho not for you rietrot, or you Techne, or you NarrowBandFtw... Fish on a hook don't like to be reminded they're on a hook.

It has all of Tre45on's greats hits; Putin, Semion Mogilevich (finally), Firtash, Deripaska, Sater, Assange, Manafort, Flynn, Page, Alfa Bank and more.

On the scale we use in the movie review thread, I give it a Trump is going to die in jail/10

 

[OrbitalDawn]

While Trump's terribleness gets attention, Sessions' Justice Department is quite happy to continue enabling police abuse of power and violation of rights on a huge amount of people.

How the Trump Administration Went Easy on Small-Town Police Abuses

The Obama Justice Department thought Ville Platte, Louisiana — where officers jail witnesses to crimes — could become a model of how to erase policing abuses that plague small towns across the nation. Jeff Sessions decided not to bother.

Two weeks later, on Dec. 19, the U.S. Department of Justice issued a scathing report on policing in Ville Platte and surrounding Evangeline Parish. The investigation found that, for decades, the city Police Department and the parish Sheriff’s Office maintained an unwritten policy of jailing people without probable cause — for days and even weeks at a time — to pressure them to cooperate with law enforcement. These “investigative holds” ensnared anybody who might know something about criminal activity, from a suspect to a potential witness to a suspect’s relatives. As the Justice Department report put it, “Literally anyone in Evangeline Parish or Ville Platte could be arrested and placed ‘on hold’ at any time.” Many were. From 2012 to 2014 alone, the police unlawfully held at least 700 people in Ville Platte — close to a tenth of the town’s residents.

That, the report concluded, amounted to “a pattern or practice of unconstitutional conduct.” To end this cycle of abuses, the report prescribed an array of institutional changes to eliminate investigative holds, such as imposing new department protocols and overhauling training regimens.

The case wasn’t merely about Ville Platte. The Justice Department lawyers viewed it as a template. Similar policing practices exist in scores of towns and villages across the country, and Justice Department officials selected Ville Platte precisely because it was a pure embodiment of a widespread problem. They hoped it would provide a model for reform at other police departments.

Justice Department officials planned to negotiate a consent decree — a long-term reform plan supervised by a federal judge — with local officials. Systemic police reform was a defining feature of the Obama-era Justice Department, which considered judicial oversight key to dislodging unlawful practices as firmly entrenched as investigative holds were in Ville Platte.

But Jeff Sessions, who took office as attorney general just months after the Justice Department report, has a different view. He considers his predecessors’ reform efforts, particularly via consent decree, to be gross federal overreach that denigrates and demoralizes police. Sessions all but declared that the Justice Department was getting out of the business of meaningful police reform. There would be no consent decree in Ville Platte. Instead, the result is what former Justice Department officials say is an anemic reform plan, announced in June, that largely leaves the future of policing there to the police.

 

[Cray]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45403855

Colin Kaepernick to be face of new Nike ad campaign

An American football star who sparked a furore by kneeling during the national anthem has been unveiled as the new face of a major advertising campaign.

Former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick will front Nike's "Just Do It" 30th anniversary campaign, reports said.

In 2016 Kaepernick refused to stand for the anthem in protest at police violence against African-Americans.

Many other players followed suit but the protest has divided the country.

President Donald Trump has called players who "disrespect" the US flag "sons of bitches" and called for them to be sacked.

Shots fired...

 

[Aquila ka Hecate]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45403855



Shots fired...

I find this very telling.

Nike - who would drown their own grandmothers rather than lose money - have decided what the "right side of history" is.

However much I personally dislike megacorps and their advertising, this is a giant neon sign saying something like Trump is going down. Soon.

 

[greg0205]

^ Conservatives immediately took to Twitter to destroy their Nike gear as they expressed their 1A rights by raging against Kaep and Nike expressing theirs.

As a liberal I feel owned.

 

[Cray]

I find this very telling.

Nike - who would drown their own grandmothers rather than lose money - have decided what the "right side of history" is.

Yup, they stood by Lance Armstrong right up until the point where they saw where the wind was blowing then dropped him like a hot potato.

 

[Cray]

^ Conservatives immediately took to Twitter to destroy their Nike gear as they expressed their 1A rights by raging against Kaep and Nike expressing theirs.

Lol, destroy something you already bought, that'll teach 'em...

 

[greg0205]

Lol, destroy something you already bought, that'll teach 'em...

It’s something ain’t it.

 

[rietrot]

^ Conservatives immediately took to Twitter to destroy their Nike gear as they expressed their 1A rights by raging against Kaep and Nike expressing theirs.

As a liberal I feel owned.

Meh. Anyone on twitter has such a short attention span they'll probably forget why they destroyed their stuff and go and buy new nike stuff next week.