Oregon governor: I'll say no if Trump asks me to deploy National Guard troops to Mexico border
I wonder how long it'll be before @realDonaldDumbass snaps back at Gov. Brown. We all know that's coming, it's only a question of when.Oregon Gov. Kate Brown (D) said she would reject a request from President Trump to dispatch National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border.
"If @realDonaldTrump asks me to deploy Oregon Guard troops to the Mexico border, I'll say no," Brown tweeted.
"As Commander of Oregon's Guard, I'm deeply troubled by Trump's plan to militarize our border."
She added: "There's been no outreach by the President or federal officials, and I have no intention of allowing Oregon's guard troops to be used to distract from his troubles in Washington."
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‘All It Takes Is One Mistake’: Worries Over Plan to Send National Guard to Border
A little over a year ago, when news surfaced of a Trump administration memo that proposed mobilizing as many as 100,000 National Guard troops to round up unauthorized immigrants at the southern border, a White House spokesman quickly denounced the reports as “irresponsible.”
“That is 100 percent not true,” Sean Spicer, the press secretary at the time, told reporters aboard Air Force One. “There is no effort at all to round up, to utilize the National Guard to round up illegal immigrants.”
At the Pentagon, where officials had greeted the news grimly, there were sighs of relief: Military leaders have long opposed sending National Guard troops to the border.“There is a significant opportunity cost,” said James G. Stavridis, a retired four-star admiral who commanded United States forces in Europe and Latin America, adding that troops sent to the border with Mexico — ostensibly an American ally — would “miss important training opportunities for their real primary mission — combat.”
But the idea that Mr. Spicer called inconceivable a year ago is back in play.
On Wednesday, White House officials said that President Trump planned to mobilize the National Guard to the southern border. The announcement came a day after Mr. Trump surprised some of his top advisers by saying that he wanted to send in the military to do what the immigration authorities, in his view, could not: secure the border from what he characterized as a growing threat of unauthorized immigrants, drugs and crime from Central America.
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I think you hit on the same thing I have strong feelings about. When I look at a politician, or a candidate for a political position, I look at them like I was an employer trying to hire the person that was best for the position. I don't fawn over anyone either, I don't think anyone should deify any politician. I supported Hillary Clinton because I considered the resumes of all the candidates and from that determined that she was the best choice for the job.
We see in Trump the danger of people following a politician blindly simply because of the 'cult of personalty' effect. If you want to like a politican, then like them for the work they did, or tried to do. For their accomplishments, for how they handled themselves in the job.
You can like someone's ideas on issues, that doesn't in of it's self make them qualified for political office. There are a lot of smart people in the country with smart ideas on how to fix problems and deal with issues. But, when voting for a political candidate, you have to also consider the whole package. You have to consider if they can and will do the job they are being hired to do. If they are mentally, physically, emotionally, and intellectually up for the challenges of the position.
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Just like all of Trump's scandals in the past would ruin him when the Clinton machine got their hands on him...
Very few people care about what Bernie Sanders thought about Nicaragua and Sandinistas in the 80s (I do because it shows he's an actual New Left socialist deep down despite some of the right wing crap he's spouted since) but to most it's irrelevant noise and most people would recognise he wasn't a communist for wanting modest social democratic reforms (if anything it would make socialism more popular by making it a synonym to social democracy to most people).
Of course if he was the nominee he'd struggle because the Republicans were always favourites to win the Presidency after 8 years of the Democrats and Obama. Not to mention you'd have the entire liberal intelligentsia, and media attacking Sanders and declaring him no better than Trump during the election like they did with Corbyn. But Sanders would have had a better chance than Clinton because he isn't nearly as out of touch or despicable as she was (so long as Bloomberg didn't run as a spoiler).
Obama was clearly a top 20 or top 10 president, even though his own party was often hesitant to follow him and Republicans decided it's better to break the government and damage the country than work with him.
The changes he made to healthcare and LGBTQ rights, the discussion about racism he encouraged scared the Kochs and the Mercers so much they put incredible amounts of money into efforts to damage the Democratic party and its candidates - from the astro turfed Tea Party to Cambridge Analytica.
Sanders never showed him a shred of respect. Matter of fact, he suggested a primary challenge to sabotage Obama's reelection.
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Hillary was right!
First of. Sanders is not a Democrat running for office. He is currently an Independent.
Second of, the people of Vermont are very generous considering he is not really doing much work for them.
Sanders Was most absent in votes compared to Serving 10+ Years in 2016
And it didn't pick up much once the election year was over. Here is his 2017 report card.
"How does the Green Goblin have anything to do with Herpes?" - The Dying Detective
Hillary was right!
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How exactly has he divided the party? I'd like a genuine answer.
There is no such thing as the perfect candidate. Which is why I'm open to someone not named Bernie Running, but like Him. I don't need More Liberal schills. Indepedent or not. Seems to me the only people truly dividing the party are those not wanting to move into the future.
Here's the video of the speech he gave since "Liberals" tend to just react on emotion and the effort of Ruby Cramer who has never written a positive thing about Bernie, nor a critical thing about Hillary.
YOU tell me how the audience reacted yesterday.
YES, Bernie can do wrong and he has.
He doesn't support the Protests against Israel, while also claiming to be even handed in support of the Two state solution. I hope this is the case.
Bernie doesn't have the Greatest record on Gun Reform, which is prmarily because of his state. On National Gun reform he's much better.
Bernie in the beginning of his campaign did not go after the symbolism of the black vote, simply trying to tie everything into economics, which is in reality a huge issue for us blacks, but the optics didn't look great at first.
Bernie supported a person who was Pro-Life, which is their right, however as part of the Democratic Party or at the LEAST Progressive independence, that can't be a thing in the future.
Bernie is actually not as strong as I'd like on Immigration issues. I wish he had done some more work to advance DACA back when the Democrats held the house.
He's gotta stop using the Iraq War vote as a thing. Although it does allow him the ability to grow on issues like Korea and China.
I wish he was more pursuant to nationalizing Marijuana nationwide instead of state by state.
There are others but i'm hungry. :P
His Politics are not stuck in the 60's If they were why are young people so enthusiatic about him?
Why does he need to pick a side when the Democrats don't want to hear anything he has to offer, But always want his vote?
Despite terrible policy positions, Bernie was right on the Dems last 15 years and he is right about Amazon too:
http://www.businessinsider.com/berni...too-big-2018-4Sen. Bernie Sanders thinks Amazon has gotten so large that it requires closer scrutiny of its "power and influence."
On CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday, the anchor Jake Tapper asked Sanders whether Amazon had gotten too big.
"Yeah, I do, I do," said Sanders, the independent senator from Vermont who ran as a Democratic presidential candidate in 2016.
"This is an issue that has got to be looked at," he added. "What we are seeing all over this country is the decline in retail. We're seeing this incredibly large company getting involved in almost every area of commerce. And I think it is important to take a look at the power and influence that Amazon has."
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Grant Morrison: “Adults...struggle desperately with fiction, demanding constantly that it conform to the rules of everyday life. Adults foolishly demand to know how Superman can possibly fly, or how Batman can possibly run a multibillion-dollar business empire during the day and fight crime at night, when the answer is obvious even to the smallest child: because it's not real.”
Agreed My mother was an RN and even if she had an issue with white people she knew her role was to CARE for people, not their skintone. Which is why she pursued medicine and worked in Hospitals and later nursing homes of Primarily white people. She didn't give a shit if they were racist or not. They needed help and she was there.
THIS Beyoo... Is beyond help and I love how Racist and Homophobic Conservatives use Patreon and such to support their hatred for others. They should shut this shit down and refund those people their money for being stupid.