Trump Demands Congress Investigate Obama For Netflix Documentary
Trump tried to distract from the impeachment investigation that is encircling him by demanding that Congress investigate Obama for his deal with Netflix.The difference between Obama and Trump is simple. Obama didn’t use the presidency to line his own pockets.
Obama’s book deal and his Netflix deal started after his presidency ended. Barack Obama wasn’t directing members of his administration to stay at his private businesses so that he could make money off of the taxpayers. Former President Obama didn’t profit off of members of the military staying at his private club in Scotland. If Congress were to investigate Obama’s book deal, they would need to investigate Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ book deal and the book deal that Trump could possibly get, if he is not serving in time in prison, after his presidency ends.
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Distraction? More like Trump’s neverending jihad against Obama which, as I’ve maintained from jump street, goes back to the 2011 White House Correspondents Dinner where the Donald was made the butt of jokes by Obama, and Trump, vindictive as the day is long, has neither forgiven or forgotten what went down that night. And when you’re on Trump’s **** list, it’s for life as he NEVER lets go of a grudge.
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This is absolutely the only reason why he is doing this. To show how far he will go, he has also been kicking around the idea commuting the sentence of convicted ex-governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich. Why? Because it was Obama's senate seat that Blago was trying to profit from went it was going to be vacated once he started serving as POTUS. Of course, Blago did appear on Celebrity Apprentice before he went to trial. But Trump wants to get back at Obama in any way he can. He has tried to say that Blago's crimes are no big deal, etc.
I'm hoping it will uncover how he was able to put together deals after his catastrophic bankruptcies with the Atlantic City casinos. It's probably going to be proved that his source of income will be traced to Russian oligarchs. And all Russian Oligarchs are at Putin's command. Lawrence O'Donnell did get into a bit of trouble for broadcasting that a Russian oligarch co-signed on his loans at Deutsche Bank before the source was verified. But this has been kicked around for years. They are probably waiting for solid proof in the US District Court for the Southern District of NY. They've been in on almost all the ongoing investigations of Trump's finances.
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There's no rule, although I think it is better to respect the time of others by not insinuating that there's an obligation to read multiple articles, and answer several detailed questions.
Obviously Douthat's selection represents his opinion. You're free to articulate that the things that were called racist are racist (presumably in the "this person should be shunned by polite society for following in the footsteps of Bull Connor" sense of the word, and not the "white liberal confesses to their own implicit biases and vows to be better" sense of racism.)
It's cherry-picking to go after randos on twitter, but someone writing for a major outlet should know better, so if there's multiple examples from MSNBC's top show, the Washington Post and Bloomberg Law over the course of two weeks, that does suggest liberals are consistently getting it wrong on a sensitive topic where allegations carry great moral weight.
As for your article, it's a grab-bag of allegations but does serve as a good summary of progressive concerns.
It seems odd to suggest that Republicans want more black and brown babies as part of a racist strategy.From this perch, (Republicans) pursued an agenda dedicated, in large part, to demonizing immigrants from Central America, the Caribbean, Africa, and the Middle East, while extolling the virtues of those from Europe; curtailing voting rights and seeking to reduce political representation for black and Hispanic people, for the express purpose of winning elections; and criminalizing abortion and reducing affordable health-care options in states where maternal and infant mortality rates are worse than in many less developed economies, especially for black women and children.
Immigration policy is complex, especially since Democrats are generally unwilling to express any preferred limiting principle. The Republican approach of wanting to replace family unification and lottery based systems with more skills based immigration gets closer to international norms, and is actually rather popular.
https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2...d-immigration/
With voting rights, Democrats largely go with policies that are in their self-interest, even if there are going to be costs associated. They live in high population density areas, so last minute registration and outreach is more cost-effective. Some voting precincts are going to be shut down because it's too expensive. There are some pushes to make Election Day a national holiday (I'm ambivalent about whether that'll make a difference) which neglect that a lot of elections are decided during the primary.
Cheney-Rice thinks it's a problem that half of Republicans think African-Americans are more likely to be violent or criminal, although the statistics don't exactly contradict this. There are complicating factors (poverty, generations-long consequences of poor policies such as exposure to lead paint in public housing or disparities in drug charges leading to young minority men developing criminal records which limit their professional opportunities) but it is sketchy to blame people for answering a simplistic poll question with information that is arguably accurate.
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There is a chicken and egg thing with liberal concerns about racism. Zak-Cheney praises liberals for sounding "the alarm about where the GOP was headed when much of the conservative intelligentsia was busy using op-ed pages and cable-news appearances to launder its descent" but it was also a convenient allegation for the left to make. It was made against Bush, Romney and McCain, which meant swing voters were less likely to care when the same charge was made against Trump.
A very uncomfortable question for Republicans is whether in a divided country they could survive by shooing away racists, just as Democrats might not be able to survive if they shoo away minority voters who have low opinions of other races.
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An explosion rocked a Russian research facility known for housing the smallpox virus
An explosion Monday caused a fire at the State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology, a biological research facility in Siberia known for being one of the two centers in the world housing samples of live smallpox virus. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta is the only other place known to maintain live samples of the deadly pathogen.
According to the head administrator of Koltsovo city, where the research center, commonly called the Vector Institute, is located, the explosion occurred during scheduled maintenance work. The incident doesn’t pose a threat to the surrounding community, Nikolai Krasnikov told the Russian TASS news agency. According to TASS, there were no biohazard substances involved. One worker was injured and taken to a hospital with burns. Russia Today reported that emergency responders were treating the explosion and fire as a major incident, given the sensitive work of the Vector Institute.
The Vector Institute is known for producing top-notch epidemiological research. According to TASS, researchers recently wrapped up successful trials on an Ebola vaccine earlier this year. Despite that reputation, there have been questions raised about the institute. A high-ranking Soviet bioweapons official who defected to the United States in the 1990s claimed that smallpox had been moved to the Vector Institute in order to conduct bioweapons research.
The world’s other smallpox repository, the CDC, has also faced questions about its safety processes and infrastructure. In 2016, USA Today published an investigation on failures at the centers, including a 2009 incident where scientists in biohazard suits could see light seeping into a decontamination chamber where workers who’d just done work with deadly pathogens were supposed to be doused in a chemical shower.
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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/somet...b076eaaae270acWhen my brother called to tell me about the arrest of former Bordentown Township police chief Frank Nucera Jr. last week, I burst into tears.
Nearly 13 years ago, my father was hit by a car and killed in Bordentown, NJ. Nucera apparently wasn’t the chief back then, but he was on the force – a police force that assumed things about my dad that weren’t true, neglected my father’s well-being and gave a pass to the person who killed him
Nucera is now facing a federal hate crime charge and a federal civil rights charge stemming from other alleged incidents, but this didn’t just start and end with him. As I have long maintained for over a decade, that entire police department must be investigated to reveal its culture of prejudice and how it treats certain segments of society as second-class citizens. The sad reality is that this isn’t even confined to just the Bordentown Township Police Department; there are voiceless victims across the country who suffer in silence and never receive a semblance of justice.
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A teen allegedly wanted to ‘shoot 400 people for fun.’ Cops found an AK-47 in her bedroom
Alexis Wilson was working an afternoon shift at the local Pizza Inn in McAlester, Okla., on Sunday, when she pulled a co-worker aside to boast about her new gun.
The slight 18-year-old with large brown eyes clutched her iPhone and pressed play on a video of her shooting a newly purchased AK-47, according to an incident report. Then Wilson told the other teenage waitress how much she resented the people at her old school — allegedly adding that she wanted to “shoot 400 people for fun.”
The chilling conversation shook Wilson’s co-worker. She reported it to a manager, who called the McAlester police.
On Monday, the Pittsburg County Sheriff’s Office said Wilson was charged with a felony for making a terrorist threat against McAlester High School.
“In today’s times, you can’t say stuff like that,” Pittsburg County Sheriff Chris Morris told KTUL. “We’re going to take it serious and investigate it to the fullest extent and make an arrest if possible because we do not want any of our schools getting shot up — nobody does.”
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On this date in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, as well as 2018, that "Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day" published profiles of the U.S. House Representative from Colorado’s 5th Congressional District, Doug Lamborn, who first won office in 2007 by gay-baiting and claiming his primary opponent “supported the homosexual agenda” (which wasn’t the case). Lamborn was also named the most conservative member of Congress in 2010 by the National Journal, which makes sense when you realize he was one of the original member of the GOP to push legislation fueled by FOX News’ “War on Christmas”, as well as being the guy the guy who co-sponsored a bill to try to defund National Public Radio. Plus, long before Mitt Romney ever talked about defunding PBS and speaking ill of Big Bird, Rep. Lamborn did it first. Lamborn even once gave an interview where he described being associated with President Obama “like touching a tar baby”, which he defended by saying he had no idea “tar baby” was a racial slur. That may be part of the reason that he once called for American generals to resign to protest President Obama's foreign policy or the time he made a spectacle of himself back in 2012 by announcing that he was boycotting President Obama's State of the Union Address, then complaining when the media actually reported it, and saying he was being "unfairly singled out". Lamborn has also took to claiming President Obama was doing nothing to prevent Christian persecution around the globe because he was too busy supporting LGBT causes, instead.
Needless to say, Doug Lamborn has been getting a lot of grief at his town hall meetings. And then he was implicated as someone who benefited from stock advice from fellow Congressman Chris Collins, whose stock advice really amounts to insider trading, although unlike Collins, Lamborn avoided being directly indicted.
He managed to survive the scandal of fraudulent signatures to get on the ballot, to fend off two primary challengers in the form of fellow CSGOPOTDs Owen Hill, and Darryl Glenn, before holding off Democrat Stephanie Rose Spaulding in the general election with 57% of the vote. Now in his 7th term in office, Lamborn has continued his feud with PBS, complaining not just about Sesame Street and Big Bird, but getting his knickers in a twist and trying to defund PBS because the teacher on the cartoon Arthur had the titular character’s teacher, Mr. Ratburn, married to another man (anthropomorphic animal man, but GASP, A MAN!). Lamborn’s fury, as follows:
… Get bent, Lamborn. And stop whining all the time about the Green New Deal without seeming to even know what it IS, and labeling everything you don’t like “socialism”.
Anyway, it’s probably not a shock to anyone that Lamborn continues to rack up a highly conservative voting record, now in the minority:
- January 22nd, 2019: Lamborn cannot be arsed to vote against HR 676, which would prevent Donald Trump from doing the unthinkable and walking away from our allies in NATO to appease the Russians. Just a reminder, Lamborn is a high-ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee who seems indifferent about the United States’ biggest adversary.
- January 23rd, 2019: Rep. Lamborn voted against HR 648, because he was gleeully enjoying the longest government shutdown in history.
- February 28th, 2019: Doug Lamborn votes against HR 1112, a bill which would have required universal background checks on all firearm purchases, and close the gun show loophole.
- March 7th, 2019: Lamborn votes against HR 183, a resolution to condemn anti-Semitism as a hateful extension of intolerance.
- March 14th, 2019: Rep. Lamborn votes against HJR 46, which sane members of Congress voted for to reject Donald Trump’s “national emergency” regarding the U.S. border and his attempts to reallocate funds for a border wall without Congressional approval.
- April 4th, 2019: Doug Lamborn is one of 158 Republicans who choose to vote against the re-authorization of the Violence Against Women Act, likely because they feel the 2nd Amendment remaining absolute is more important than preventing people with a history of domestic abuse from owning a firearm (which statistics show, makes them more likely to use those firearms against women in their lives).
- May 17th, 2019: Lamborn votes against The Equality Act, which would have prevented discrimination towards Americans based on their gender identity or sexual orientation.
- June 4th, 2019: Rep. Lamborn votes against the Dreamers Act, because he’s too xenophobic and partisan to care about immigration reform.
- July 16th, 2019: Doug Lamborn is one of 187 Republicans who vote against a resolution to condemn Donald Trump for his racist statements that four people of color in Congress should “go back where they came from”.
Make no mistake, Doug Lamborn has become one of the Republicans embracing the GOP becoming the “Party of Trump”, as evidenced by his recent Twitter post commending Donald Trump for choosing to have U.S. Space Command housed at Peterson Air Force, where he bizarrely referred to “space warfighters”, which we can only assume is related to the fever dream of Trump’s Space Force. Otherwise, we have no idea, because we're currently not having a war in space for anyone to fight in.
We understand that Colorado’s 5th is one of the more conservative districts in the state, but we can only hope Colorado keeps trending blue enough to oust this stooge sooner, rather than later. We would settle for 2020.
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Respectfully, that's now how I read it:
This would increase the deaths of black and brown babies (and women). The mortality rates in those states are already 'worse than in many less developed economies' and that's with (some) access to those options already in place - take them away and the deaths will go up. So less black and brown babies rather than more.From this perch, (Republicans) pursued an agenda dedicated, in large part, to ... criminalizing abortion and reducing affordable health-care options in states where maternal and infant mortality rates are worse than in many less developed economies, especially for black women and children.
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