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Utter Cad.
Such as creeping fascism?
Current Affairs Donald Trump POS: Judgement cometh and that right soon
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Such as creeping fascism?
Real issues like poverty and giant corporations running the world for their own financial benefit.
peteblue
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Indeed....
peteblue
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Have we heard anything from Hilary Clinton about this ?....
Edit, found it....
"I stand with the people gathered across the country tonight defending our values & our Constitution. This is not who we are," Clinton tweeted.
Is this what democracy is now, a series of tweets......
So having an issue against actual far right people is OTT?
Coz last time I checked it was ok to take a stand against that.
Clint Planet
Utter Cad.
I did mean this is what Trump et al should concentrate on instead of the right wing populist stuff currently being spewed out by his administration.
Getting closer, Groucho. Don't forget to pack your guitar.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/s...perconductor-harvard-university-a7548221.html
peteblue
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Then do something about it......
peteblue
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Sorry. I edited the post. My question was about what the American politicians doing about it......
Watching the news these days is to stare at a screen, confused, as the TV anchor shouts at the viewer, “Aren’t you mad about this tweet?!”
In the short time since President Trump was elected, and in the even shorter time since he was sworn into office, the public has been made to endure a parade of media obsessions that barely qualify as news and certainly aren’t scandals.
Since Election Day, Trump has saved hundreds of jobs in Indiana, convinced business CEOs to commit to new investments in the economy, started negotiations with foreign countries and signed a raft of executive orders to undo Barack Obama’s legacy.
There’s plenty to scrutinize there, but it’s Trump’s side gig as a culture commentator on Twitter that preoccupies journalists, who swear his murmurings about ratings for the new “Apprentice” are a looming threat to the republic.
After Meryl Streep wept over the election results at the Golden Globes this month, Trump on Twitter called her “one of the most over-rated actresses in Hollywood.”
Leaving aside that that’s objectively true, undermining an actress’s talent isn’t particularly consequential, even if it’s coming from the then-president elect.
But cable news was stacked with segment after segment analyzing why Trump would tweet that, what it meant and is this okay?!
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/medias-self-regard-backfires/article/2613218
oh, and this...
Trump didn’t select seven “Muslim-majority” countries. US President Barack Obama’s administration selected these seven Muslim-majority countries.
The Department of Homeland Security targeted these seven countries over the last years as countries of concern. In February 2016 “The Department of Homeland Security today announced that it is continuing its implementation of the Visa Waiver Program Improvement and Terrorist Travel Prevention Act of 2015 with the addition of Libya, Somalia, and Yemen as three countries of concern, limiting Visa Waiver Program travel for certain individuals who have traveled to these countries.” It noted “the three additional countries designated today join Iran, Iraq, Sudan and Syria as countries subject to restrictions for Visa Waiver Program travel for certain individuals.” It was the US policy under Obama to restrict and target people “who have been present in Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, at any time on or after March 1, 2011 (with limited government/military exceptions).” This was text of the US Customs and Border Protection in 2015 relating to “the Visa Waiver Program and Terrorist Travel Protection Act of 2015“. The link even includes the seven nation list in it: “Iraq, Syria, Iran, SUdan, Somalia or Yemen.” And the media knew this back in May 2016 when some civil rights groups complained about it. “These restrictions have provoked an outcry from the Iranian-American community, as well as Arab-American and civil-liberties groups, who say the restrictions on dual nationals and certain travelers are discriminatory and could be imposed against American dual nationals.”
https://sethfrantzman.com/2017/01/2...lim-ban-possible-and-the-media-wont-tell-you/
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peteblue
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And I agreed with you.....
The child is also being detained.
http://www.businessinsider.com/mo-f...d-trump-seems-to-have-made-me-an-alien-2017-1
"On 1st January this year, Her Majesty The Queen made me a Knight of the Realm. On 27th January, President Donald Trump seems to have made me an alien.
"I am a British citizen who has lived in America for the past six years — working hard, contributing to society, paying my taxes and bringing up our four children in the place they now call home. Now, me and many others like me are being told that we may not be welcome. It’s deeply troubling that I will have to tell my children that Daddy might not be able to come home — to explain why the President has introduced a policy that comes from a place of ignorance and prejudice."
"I was welcomed into Britain from Somalia at eight years old and given the chance to succeed and realise my dreams. I have been proud to represent my country, win medals for the British people and receive the greatest honour of a knighthood. My story is an example of what can happen when you follow policies of compassion and understanding, not hate and isolation."
How do you know I'm not?
That's not really the point is it? You seem to think we shouldn't take a stand against the far right? Or at least you're happy to call efforts to do something about it "OTT".
That's seems odd to me.
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