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turbinetree's JournalTrump throws a fit when reporters note his own numbers prove him wrong
By Dan Desai Martin - February 15, 2019
Trump blew a gasket and trashed crime statistics from his own administration as 'fake news.'
Trump came completely unglued on Friday when multiple reporters pointed out that his racist rhetoric about immigrants does not match up with federal government data, including from Trump’s own Department of Homeland Security.
“I use many stats,” Trump cried petulantly at one point when he was unable to come up with a specific rebuttal to the facts reporters cited.
The exchange came during a press conference in which Trump declared a national emergency to help him steal funds to build a wall along the southern border.
CNN’s Jim Acosta asked Trump to explain the discrepancy between his claims that there is a “national emergency” at the border, and data from the Department of Homeland Security showing “border crossings at a near record low.”
https://shareblue.com/trump-throws-fit-national-emergency-reporters-dhs-numbers-prove-him-wrong/
Jim Acosta CNN
and
Brian Karem, White House correspondent for Playboy
It was funny if it wasn't so serious on what the golfing asshole was doing..............
ACLU Plans To Sue Trump Administration Over Border Emergency Declaration
Source: Talking Points Memo
By Caitlin MacNeal
February 15, 2019 3:04 pm
Just a few hours after President Trump declared a national emergency at the southern border, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) announced Friday that it will file a lawsuit next week challenging the declaration.
“By the president’s very own admission in the Rose Garden, there is no national emergency. He just grew impatient and frustrated with Congress, and decided to move along his promise for a border wall ‘faster.’ This is a patently illegal power grab that hurts American communities and flouts the checks and balances that are hallmarks of our democracy,” Anthony Romero, the ACLU’s executive director, said in a statement Friday afternoon.
The ACLU said that it will argue in the lawsuit that the emergency powers Trump used to make the declaration cannot be used to build a border wall. Those powers were meant for “military construction projects, like overseas military airfields in wartime, that ‘are necessary to support’ the emergency use of armed forces,” the ACLU said in the statement.
It was widely expected that Trump’s decision to declare a national emergency in order to fund construction of a border wall would prompt legal challenges. Trump himself acknowledged in his Friday morning speech announcing the move that he will face lawsuits.
Read more: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/aclu-plans-lawsuit-trump-national-emergency
This is why I support the ACLU..............................
November 3, 2020 cannot get here fast enough......................
Trump Laments He'll 'Never' Get Nobel Prize: Obama Got It After '15 Seconds' In Office
By Nicole Lafond
February 15, 2019 11:49 am
President Trump is salty he hasn’t gotten the Nobel Peace Prize yet, unlike his predecessor who Trump said received the honor about “15 seconds” after being elected.
“Prime Minister Abe of Japan gave me the most beautiful copy of a letter that he sent to the people who give out a thing called a Nobel Prize. He said, ‘I have nominated you’ or ‘respectfully on behalf of Japan, I am asking them to give you the Nobel Peace Prize.’ I said, ‘Thank you. Many other people feel that way, too,'” he said after announcing a national emergency over his border wall.
“I’ll probably never get it, but that’s okay, they gave it to Obama,” he continued. “He didn’t even know what he got it for. He was there for about 15 seconds and he got the Nobel Prize. He said, ‘Oh, what did I get it for?’ With me, I probably will never get it.”
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-laments-never-get-nobel-prize-obama-got-after-15-seconds-office
What a whining sniffling asshole.......................seriously, a fucking malignant narcissistic psychopath, whining that a black man got a Nobel Peace Prize.....................during National Black History Month...............while in the Rose Garden, basically just fucking the Constitution again with his declaration of having American Taxpayers fund his fucking wall ...................
November 3, 2020 cannot get here fast enough.........................
The 20-year-old playbook that explains Republicans' attacks on the Green New Deal
Republicans’ meaningless words on climate action come from 2002 Bush and Luntz playbook
JOE ROMM
FEB 15, 2019, 8:11 AM
Republicans are gearing up to attack the Green New Deal — the latest effort by Democrats to address the growing climate crisis with a big push to deploy clean energy.
But because the public has long been supportive of both climate action and clean energy — and the momentum behind calls for action only continues to grow — the GOP has to pretend that they have a plan of their own.
So that means you can expect many conservatives critical of the plan to start using talking points from a playbook developed two decades ago by Republican word-meister and messaging expert Frank Luntz — a plan built around repeating the poll-tested words “technology” and “innovation” over and over and over.
In fact, some leading House Republicans have already started doing this. Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), and Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL) published an a op-ed this week on the conservative website Real Clear Policy that argues “Republicans Have Better Solutions to Climate Change.”
https://thinkprogress.org/republican-opposition-green-new-deal-conservative-luntz-innovation-technology-playbook-f6506e98e69f/
And just think Frank Luntz is going to be given air time in this next election to word smith his BS and have panels ........................
Not this time Luntz.........................your just like Lee Atwater in my book
Here are 2 people who opposed closing borders via executive order: Donald Trump and Mike Pence
This is awkward.
RYAN KORONOWSKI
FEB 15, 2019, 10:58 AM
President Donald Trump announced Friday that he would declare a national emergency to get his wall built on the southern border. But his decision to take executive action flies in the face of what he said as a candidate in 2016, when he assured people he would not be “opening our borders or closing our orders based on executive orders.”
During a January 2016 Fox News interview, Trump said:
All I’m saying is I’ll make great deals and we’ll get them done and we don’t have use to executive orders and all the stuff that Obama is using which at some point, I would imagine the courts are going to overrule in one form or another. But we’re not going to be opening our borders or closing our orders based on executive orders. We’re going to do it. We will get along well.
After a months-long fight with Congress over whether he would receive funding for his proposed border wall, Trump announced at the White House on Friday, “So we’re going to be signing today and registering national emergency and it’s a great thing to do. Because we have an invasion of drugs, invasion of gangs, invasion of people and it’s unacceptable.”
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-national-emergency-declaration-despite-campaign-comments-dafe3c92f348/
So in other words the AMERICAN TAXPAYERS are going to be funding this illegal action....................so for all of the trump trolls ............................fill in the blank......................
November 3, 2020 cannot get here fast enough..................
Following national emergency announcement, Trump goes golfing
Source: Think Progress
The president's public schedule contradicts his rhetoric about a crisis at the southern border.
ADDY BAIRD
FEB 15, 2019, 10:52 AM
President Donald Trump will head to his Mar-a-Lago resort and golf club Friday afternoon, hours after declaring a national emergency in order to build a wall on the southern border, according to his public schedule.
The move is not entirely surprising, given Trump’s past behavior in regards to the manufactured crisis.
Last year, the president sent troops to the border, in response to what he said was a worsening humanitarian and national security situation, only to pull them back a short while later, and then, without reason, send troops back again earlier this month. In January, Trump also delivered a televised address to the nation, laying out the supposed “crisis,” but did not declare a state of emergency, instead allowing the partial government shutdown — which began after Trump rejected a bill to fund his border wall because it did not include enough money — to drag on for more than a month.
Trump’s trip to Mar-a-Lago comes one day after lawmakers passed a funding bill to avert another partial government shutdown following the record-breaking 35-day shutdown that began last December and continued through late January. The deal includes $1.375 billion for new fencing on the border, about a quarter of the $5.7 billion Trump has repeatedly demanded for a wall. It also increases the Department of Homeland Security budget to $49.4 billion, $1.7 billion more than last year.
Read more: https://thinkprogress.org/trump-state-of-emergency-golf-trip-d56eba94b169/
November 3, 2020 cannot get here fast enough.....................
The Republican Flip-Flop to back the National Emergency........................
November 3, 2020 cannot get here fast enough...........................
National emergency dashes hopes for 5 ecologically sensitive sites spared by the spending bill
"The exemption in the spending bill will not likely save us in a state of emergency situation."
E.A. CRUNDEN
FEB 15, 2019, 11:51 AM
A spending bill allotting money to President Donald Trump’s border wall efforts shields five major ecologically or economically sensitive landmarks along the Rio Grande in Texas from any construction, including the National Butterfly Center and a beloved state park. But residents worry that a national emergency would make no such accommodations, once more imperiling vulnerable ecosystems on the border.
“We are very concerned about the state of emergency declaration,” said Marianna Treviño-Wright, the executive director of the National Butterfly Center. The center, located near the border city of Mission, Texas, has emerged as a major opponent of the wall, which would put the vulnerable animals and wildlife it protects in danger.
Thursday night momentarily brought the center some relief, when Congress moved to avert a second partial government shutdown. Lawmakers passed a 1,159-page spending bill containing more than $1.3 billion for the president’s wall, albeit not the $5.7 billion initially requested. The amount contained in the spending bill allows for 55 barriers based in the Rio Grande Valley — directly threatening state landmarks.
But Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) said last-minute language added to the bill shielded five Texas landmarks. Along with the National Butterfly Center, exemptions are included for Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park, home of the World Birding Center, and the historic Catholic chapel La Lomita.
https://thinkprogress.org/spending-bill-texas-trump-national-emergency-butterfly-center-wall-661f918aab3a/
Army calls base housing hazards 'unconscionable,' details steps to protect families
Source: Reuters
U.S.FEBRUARY 15, 2019 / 12:06 PM / UPDATED 3 HOURS AGO
Joshua Schneyer, Andrea Januta, Deborah Nelson
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Deeply troubled by military housing conditions exposed by Reuters reporting, the U.S. Army’s top leadership vowed Friday to renegotiate its housing contracts with private real estate firms, test tens of thousands of homes for toxins and hold its own commanders responsible for protecting Army base residents from dangerous homes.
In an interview, the Secretary of the Army Mark Esper said Reuters reports and a chorus of concerns from military families had opened his eyes to the need for urgent overhauls of the Army’s privatized housing system, which accommodates more than 86,000 families.
The secretary’s conclusion: Private real estate firms tasked with managing and maintaining the housing stock have been failing the families they serve, and the Army itself neglected its duties.
“You’ve brought to light a big issue that demands our attention,” Esper said Friday morning at the Pentagon. “It is frankly unconscionable that our soldiers and their families would be living in these types of conditions when we ask so much of them day in and day out.”
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-military-army/army-calls-base-housing-hazards-unconscionable-details-steps-to-protect-families-idUSKCN1Q4275
And then the current "commander in chief"
wants to take money out of programs to try and build a wall......................and the corporations that are suppose to clean up these housing issues is doing what...................just imagine if they build a wall and get there hands on that money..................
November 3, 2020 cannot get here fast enough....................
Starbucks Paid Its Median Worker $12,754 and 52 Pounds of Coffee
By Anders Melin, Jenn Zhao and Jason Perry
Updated: February 15, 2019
Starbucks Corp. has disclosed for the first time how much it pays its median employee: $12,754 a year—and 52 pounds of coffee, one for each week.
The figure, included in a Jan. 25 regulatory filing, represents the compensation for an unidentified part-time barista in California, counting salary and restricted stock. Chief Executive Officer Kevin Johnson, by comparison, received $13.4 million for 2018, including a $1.46 million salary, a bonus and equity awards.
The 2010 Dodd-Frank Act requires public companies like Starbucks to disclose the pay gap between rank-and-file workers and their CEOs, a measure intended to highlight income inequality in the U.S. That topic has become a focal point in the nascent campaigns of those seeking to challenge President Donald Trump in 2020, including former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz.
Schultz, a billionaire who’s touring the country to promote his autobiography and explore a White House run, has said he favors raising taxes on wealthy people like himself to make sure they “pay their fair share.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/ceo-pay-ratio/?srnd=premium
And then Shultz, says that the democrats need a centrist........................eat me
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