All-purpose news and politics thread: Two Steps Beyond!

[Tami]

I said something like this before, it won't be long before the only one in the White House will be Trump.

The talk of security clearances lately has made me wonder, should a person be President if they can't get a Security Clearance? If they can't pass the FBI background check? Why not make that a qualification of everyoen runniong for the office. The FBI shoudl start checking their backgroudns as soon as they start campaigining. If they fail, then they can't be qualified for the job.

[worstblogever]

I said something like this before, it won't be long before the only one in the White House will be Trump.

The talk of security clearances lately has made me wonder, should a person be President if they can't get a Security Clearance? If they can't pass the FBI background check? Why not make that a qualification of everyoen runniong for the office. The FBI shoudl start checking their backgroudns as soon as they start campaigining. If they fail, then they can't be qualified for the job.

Rumor is someone... either John Kelly or Don McGahn are actively finding ways of side-stepping policy on classified info and background checks to give out that information as they please. Whether it's through a legal loophole, or they're committed a crime?

Why, how could anyone think with this administration it's the latter?

[InformationGeek]

Well this horrible.

The Trump administration is proposing to save billions in the coming years by giving low-income families a box of government-picked, nonperishable foods every month instead of food stamps.

White House OMB Director Mick Mulvaney on Monday hailed the idea as one that kept up with the modern era, calling it a "Blue Apron-type program" — a nod to the high-end meal kit delivery company that had one of the worst stock debuts in 2017 and has struggled to hold onto customers. Mulvaney said the administration’s plan would not only save the government money, but also provide people with more nutritious food than they have now.

[SUPERECWFAN1]

Well this horrible.

Everyone knows the idea is for them to starve to death. The box will come with a few cans of food at best and the food will be expired and rotten.

[worstblogever]

Everyone knows the idea is for them to starve to death. The box will come with a few cans of food at best and the food will be expired and rotten.

I mean, think about the number of meals under-delivered to Puerto Rico over the past few months. Can't trust these f***ers to feed the poorest Americans, not at all.

[4saken1]

I'm pretty sure the debate over whether white privilege actually exists would be settled if we could just get every conservative to go ask their black friend about it.

[Tami]

Everyone knows the idea is for them to starve to death. The box will come with a few cans of food at best and the food will be expired and rotten.

Sounds like what happened in Puerto Rico

[aja_christopher]

I'm pretty sure the debate over whether white privilege actually exists would be settled if we could just get every conservative to go ask their black friend about it.

If you don't have one, you can always sub in a Larry Elder or Ben Carson article that you read.

Make sure they aren't past their expiration dates though -- wouldn't want a Colin Powell situation on your hands.

[Tendrin]

In a now-deleted post — but captured forever in a screenshot — Roxbury Township Deputy Mayor Rick Blood (R) likened Trump’s harsh deportation policies to getting rid of a raccoon infestation in the basement.


“You’ve been on vacation for two weeks, you come home, and your basement is infested with raccoons,” Blood wrote in part. “Hundreds of rabid, messy, mean raccoons have overtaken your basement. You want them gone immediately. You call the city, 4 different exterminators, but nobody can handle the job. But there is this one guy and he guarantees you to get rid of them, so you hire him.”
“Here’s why we want Trump… The country is a mess because politicians suck, the Republicans and Democrats can be two-faced & gutless, and illegals are everywhere,” Blood went on. “We want it all fixed!… This country is weak, bankrupt, our enemies are making fun of us, we are being invaded by illegals, we are becoming a nation of victims where every Tom, Ricardo, and Hasid is a special group with special rights… The raccoons have got to go.”

*facepalms*

*sighs*

https://thinkprogress.org/roxbury-de...source=twitter

[numberthirty]

If you don't have one, you can always sub in a Larry Elder or Ben Carson article that you read.

Make sure they aren't past their expiration dates though -- wouldn't want a Colin Powell situation on your hands.

Would not miss this band.

[BeastieRunner]

He might as well have just gone straight to the N-word.

[Tendrin]

'*special rights*'.

Vomitous.

[KNIGHT OF THE LAKE]

The point is that these are American -- not "Chinese" or "Japanese" -- actors who can't even get "Asian" roles in the country of their birth: the reason behind this is discrimination, not because this is a "predominately white" country.

Anyway, this argument is getting redundant again -- if you don't see the irony in thinking that "Asian-American" lead actors can't "cater" to "predominately white" audiences because they aren't "white" isn't racist against Asian-Americans, then I don't know what else to tell you at this point.

It just shows that you are so used to being "catered to" (as a "white" person) that you don't even see such blatant racism as an issue -- there's absolutely no reason why an Asian-American actor would have to be "white" to appeal to a "general" audience, anymore than Black Panther would, for example.

Well, there is one reason... but it's being dodged repeatedly.

No the point is that at the end of the day a studio in any country is going to err on the side of catering it's entertainment to the majority. It's not racist or controversial. It's what every country does. Asians make up something like 5% of the population in the U.S.

Black Panther is also different. Black Panther is a character where he HAS to be African.

For the Death Note movie they set it in Washington state and took it out of Japan. There was no in story reason for Light to be Asian if the story wasn't set in Japan. If they made a Death Note movie and kept everything the same, then yeah Light and L should be Asian. However they didn't. They changed it and set it in America. So they made Light and L part of the two most prominent racial groups in America and made most of the cast part of the majority racial group in America.

And this isn't an American thing either. When Bollywood gets the rights to a film, what ethnic group do you think the characters end up being?

Yeah in a perfect world studios wouldn't care. But no they are going to say, what makes this the easiest to relate to the market we are in? And then everything in the movie goes accordingly.

[BeastieRunner]

'*special rights*'.

Vomitous.

You found a real winner there.

[Tendrin]

You found a real winner there.

Too low rank for WBE, thankfully, and liable to stay that way after that nonsense...

...I hope.