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

[Kevinroc]

Thinking the President could really conceivably be a pure figurehead position moving forward.

That's really what the GOP wants. And then this racist clown's antics dominate the news and implicate every other member of his party as a racist clown.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Yes, she was. (Prime Minister, not President.)

It's funny, because Norwegians would be great immigrants. But it's because Norway is a heavily taxed, democratic socialist welfare state. The antithesis of what Trump and the GOP are doing to this country.

Norway has had the highest Human Development Index ranking in the world since 2009, a position also held previously between 2001 and 2006. It also has the highest inequality-adjusted ranking. Norway ranks first on the World Happiness Report, the OECD Better Life Index, the Index of Public Integrity, and the Democracy Index.

Hmmm... why would they want to come here?

Your guess is as good as mine, maybe better. However, it doesn't take Stephen Hawking to figure out why Trump would prefer Norwegians over people from Africa and Haiti, lighter colored skin, yo.

[Scott Taylor]

That's really what the GOP wants. And then this racist clown's antics dominate the news and implicate every other member of his party as a racist clown.

Don't kid yourself that the desire would be party-specific. Its what any "power behind the throne" politico would want. A huge distraction up in front in the public eye while they just wheedle away in the background without scrutiny.

We all better stop this.

[PaulBullion]

I'd have thought nobody could possibly be that bad at hiding the fact that they're racist, that he must just be playing it up for his base. But no, he's just an idiot and thinks he's so smart that nobody could ever figure it out, but we all see right though him like glass.

He moved right from "when you're a star, they let you" to "when you're the president, they let you get away with everything!"

And why wouldn't he think so? Enough voters let him get away with everything. The Electoral College let him get away with everything. The GOP in the House and the Senate let him get away with everything. Fox News lets him get away with everything.

[PaulBullion]

Don't kid yourself that the desire would be party-specific. Its what any "power behind the throne" politico would want. A huge distraction up in front in the public eye while they just wheedle away in the background without scrutiny.

We all better stop this.

Enough with the "both sides" bullshit. It is so very tiresome indeed.

[Joker]

Your guess is as good as mine, maybe better. However, it doesn't take Stephen Hawking to figure out why Trump would prefer Norwegians over people from Africa and Haiti, lighter colored skin, yo.

Oh, yeah,no doubt.

[Dalak]

Thinking the President could really conceivably be a pure figurehead position moving forward.

That's really what the GOP wants. And then this racist clown's antics dominate the news and implicate every other member of his party as a racist clown.

Don't kid yourself that the desire would be party-specific. Its what any "power behind the throne" politico would want. A huge distraction up in front in the public eye while they just wheedle away in the background without scrutiny.

We all better stop this.

The Texas Governorship is mostly toothless, so it's not like it would be new to American politics. As for Party-Specific I like the in-theory way the US government should work even if I hate what's been done in-practice. While rational people are willing to work with people they dislike personally to get goals done, those people don't seem to exist anymore on the GOP side since showing that sort of behavior gets them primaried and thrown out as RINOs (Unless it's the Dems submissively coming to them).

And the 'huge distraction hiding the background' is what we've been seeing for quite a while now, or haven't you been reading about how the Tax bill is working out already?

[worstblogever]

Sen. Lindsay Graham just put out his statement, he didn't deny Trump said Haiti and Africa were s***hole statements, and seemed to confirm what Durbin said, that he stood up to Trump.

[PaulBullion]

Sen. Lindsay Graham just put out his statement, he didn't deny Trump said Haiti and Africa were s***hole statements, and seemed to confirm what Durbin said, that he stood up to Trump.

Wondering if that is gonna affect this hugely biased online twitter poll:
https://twitter.com/ProgressPolls/st...67342522286080

But I doubt it.

[Scott Taylor]

Enough with the "both sides" bullshit. It is so very tiresome indeed.

Lord Acton gives you a big thumbs down.

[Kevinroc]

Trump’s history of breaking decorum with remarks on race, ethnicity

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...nicity-n837181

A career intelligence analyst who is an expert in hostage policy stood before President Donald Trump in the Oval Office last fall to brief him on the impending release of a family long held in Pakistan under uncertain circumstances.

It was her first time meeting the president, and when she was done briefing, he had a question for her.

"Where are you from?" the president asked, according to two officials with direct knowledge of the exchange.

New York, she replied.

Trump was unsatisfied and asked again, the officials said. Referring to the president's hometown, she offered that she, too, was from Manhattan. But that's not what the president was after.

He wanted to know where "your people" are from, according to the officials, who spoke under condition of anonymity due to the nature of the internal discussions.

After the analyst revealed that her parents are Korean, Trump turned to an adviser in the room and seemed to suggest her ethnicity should determine her career path, asking why the "pretty Korean lady" isn't negotiating with North Korea on his administration's behalf, the officials said.

Trump's a racist. Trump's a racist. Trump's a racist.

[Scott Taylor]

And the 'huge distraction hiding the background' is what we've been seeing for quite a while now, or haven't you been reading about how the Tax bill is working out already?

Oh yes I know. I see it in local politics as well, where some big issue gets everyone riled up while behind the scenes some critical service gets defunded. A very old political game.

[JBatmanFan05]

Some in Africa agree about their state of affairs:

"President Donald Trump is absolutely right," says Mamady Traore, a 30-year-old sociologist in the West African nation of Guinea. "When you have heads of state who mess with the constitutions to perpetuate their power. When you have rebel factions that kill children, disembowel women as saints, who mutilate innocent civilians."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/latest-af...090539965.html

[PaulBullion]

Lord Acton gives you a big thumbs down.

The "both sides" bullshit is a big part of what keeps Republicans from being stopped from dismantling our democracy. But sure, let your cynicism destroy the country. You'll feel great about yourself.

[Scott Taylor]

The "both sides" bullshit is a big part of what keeps Republicans from being stopped from dismantling our democracy. But sure, let your cynicism destroy the country. You'll feel great about yourself.

I have absolutely no cynicism that wasn't earned by years of experience. There are bad people in circles of power, it comes with the territory. I am willing to vote either side if it is best for the Country. Are you?