All Purpose News and Politics Thread Part IV: The Center Cannot Hold

[SquirrelMan]

Well, the Dow lost 173 points today, slipping back below 26,000 after retaking that psychologically significant line yesterday. The index is barely up from 12 months ago.

[BeastieRunner]

Well, the Dow lost 173 points today, slipping back below 26,000 after retaking that psychologically significant line yesterday. The index is barely up from 12 months ago.

That's what happens when you don't cut rates.

Or raise rates.

Or which way is Trump for again? He's answered both ways.

BTW: There's a payroll tax cut inbound, which the last SEVEN TIMES has led to economic drops of 3-5%.

Does he WANT the economy to tank?

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Law enforcement have arrested two more white nationalists who were planning mass shootings against minorities, one from Washington state looking to go to Florida to attack Hispanics in Miami, another in Alabama who was planning on going to Memphis attack African Americans.

And yes, both were Trump supporters.

But, hey! The REAL threat is Antifa! Trump said as much!

[Dalak]

But, hey! The REAL threat is Antifa! Trump said as much!

Well mass shootings result in more harm to people (Rarely rich ones, usually brown) than property, while Antifa protests are far more disruptive to right-wing activities and usually result in far more property damage. OF COURSE they see Antifa as more of a threat to them.

[Robotman]

Law enforcement have arrested two more white nationalists who were planning mass shootings against minorities, one from Washington state looking to go to Florida to attack Hispanics in Miami, another in Alabama who was planning on going to Memphis attack African Americans.

And yes, both were Trump supporters.

Damn those violent video games!

[JCAll]

Apparently its been going on for days, but news is getting around about fires in the Amazon.
It it time to start talking about protecting the rainforests again?

[Tami]

Apparently its been going on for days, but news is getting around about fires in the Amazon.
It it time to start talking about protecting the rainforests again?

Not as long as the Brazilian Government is run buy a Trump devotee.

[Tami]

Italy’s Government Collapses, Turning Chaos Into Crisis

ROME — After 14 months of bickering, Italy’s government collapsed on Tuesday, plunging a key European nation already hobbled by financial fragility and political chaos into a renewed period of crisis and uncertainty.

During the government’s short tenure, the nationalist-populist coalition struck fear into the heart of the European establishment. It antagonized the European Union, flouted its budgetary laws, demonized migrants and embraced President Vladimir V. Putin’s Russia and his strongman politics.

But any relief could be short-lived among critics who have accused the government of isolating and weakening Italy as it drastically reoriented the country’s place in Europe.

The government coalition of the hard-right, anti-migrant League party and the anti-establishment Five Star Movement came apart after a mutinous power play by Matteo Salvini, the League leader and the country’s increasingly popular interior minister.

[Tami]

Trump Cancels Denmark Meeting Because He Can’t Buy Greenland

President Trump has reportedy mused to his aides about buying Greenland from Denmark, an idea so silly his own aides aren’t sure if the president means it seriously. Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen called the idea “an absurd discussion,” noting, among other problems, that Greenland has autonomy and cannot simply be sold off by Denmark.

Now, Trump is cancelling a planned meeting with the Danish — either because he’s angry Denmark won’t sell him a country that it can’t sell, or because its prime minister pointed out that his idea is crazy, or both:

[Malvolio]

I think this is Trump's ego more than anything else. Someone probably told him recently that Greenland is the world's largest island, so now he wants to build a hotel there, just so he can say he has the biggest hotel on the biggest island.

[Kusanagi]

Some of these have been mentioned but it's important not to pretend these are 'lone wolves'

Thwarted mass shootings/white supremacist attacks since El Paso

[InformationGeek]

And here's Trump snapping at Jewish people for being disloyal to him.

BREAKING: President Trump: “I think any Jewish people that vote for a Democrat – I think it shows either a total lack of knowledge, or great disloyalty.”

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Trump Cancels Denmark Meeting Because He Can’t Buy Greenland

Trump was called out on his stupidity by a woman, clearly something his fragile ego couldn’t handle, thus his having cancelled that meeting. It saddens me that the presidency has been reduced to a circus by this moron.

[Iron Maiden]

And here's Trump snapping at Jewish people for being disloyal to him.

Disloyal to who or what? Disloyal to America? Trump? Or more dangerously, does Trump think he is the personification of America? I hope the sane people in Congress are reading up on the 25th Amendment

[Gray Lensman]

Disloyal to who or what? Disloyal to America? Trump? Or more dangerously, does Trump think he is the personification of America? I hope the sane people in Congress are reading up on the 25th Amendment

The answer increasingly seems to be yes. 'I am the State', although the last family that had such a motto didn't end well.