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September 23, 2019

Top Trump Admin Staff Turnover Hits Record 78%

NBC News reports:

The top echelon of the Trump administration has become a high-speed revolving door — with turnover in 78 percent of the positions, a new study has found. And 31 percent of those White House “A-Team” jobs have turned over more than once, the study by the Brookings Institution shows.

“It’s historic, it’s unprecedented, it’s off the charts,” the study’s author, Kathryn Dunn Tenpas, told NBC News. “I’ve never seen this kind of turnover before.” In just 32 months, President Donald Trump’s rate of change has surpassed “all of his predecessors who served four-year terms,” she said.


[link:https://www.joemygod.com/2019/09/top-trump-admin-staff-turnover-hits-record-78/|]

From the comment section @ the link...the comment that wins today's internet...

Lee Grupsmith-Pedersen • 18 minutes ago
If that revolving door spins any faster, people will start getting windmill cancer..


September 23, 2019

Oompa Loompa community in uproar after more photos emerge of Donald Trump wearing 'orangeface'

The Oompa Loompa community have responded in anger after yet more photos of an ‘oranged up’ Donald Trump have emerged.

There has been an incessant supply of photos and video footage of the US President wearing bright orange face paint during his election campaign and his current presidency, and the short citizens of Loompaland have today called for his habit of doing so to end.

“We all know that ‘blacking up’ is racist and offensive to all, but why are we not calling out the leader of the free world on his daily habit of ‘orangeing up’?” questioned spokesperson for the Oompa Loompa community, Simon Williams.


[link:https://newsthump.com/2019/09/20/oompa-loompa-community-in-uproar-after-more-photos-emerge-of-donald-trump-wearing-orangeface/|]

Hehe. See what they did there? Not only is his orange face ridiculous he is also a fucking racist... orange face/ black face juxtaposition for the Orange Supremacist in Chief..
Marvellous bit of satire!
September 23, 2019

MAGAT's when faced with foreign interference in election...unsurprisingly depressing...



Where the fuck do you go with this? I want to say that the stupid burns but this is not stupidity it is a wilful disregard for the truth.
September 23, 2019

Tom Tomorrow: Those lovable scamps...



[link:https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/9/23/1886812/-Cartoon-Those-lovable-scamps|]

Normalising Nazi's is how they get away with the shit they do.
September 23, 2019

Irony & Shame are officially on life support

https://twitter.com/BettyBowers/status/1175801702219505664

"We need to be worried about the children of American politicians promoting corruption overseas."

-- Donald J. Trump, without a hint of shame or irony.


We need to get both irony and shame into resuscitation - the only remedy...

September 23, 2019

UK's Johnson says he'll tell Trump health service won't be part of trade talks

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he intends to tell President Trump that the country’s state-funded health service will not be a part of future trade talks.

Johnson told reporters while flying to New York for the United Nations General Assembly that he would tell Trump “that when we do a free trade deal, we must take sure that the (National Health Service) is not on the table, that we do not in any way prejudice or jeopardize our standards on animal welfare and food hygiene in the course of that deal, and that we open up American markets,” according to The Associated Press.


[link:https://thehill.com/policy/international/trade/462554-uks-boris-johnson-says-hell-tell-trump-health-service-wont-be-part|]

I call bollocks. Firstly, Boris would sell his soul, never mind the NHS for a trade deal with Pappa Trump. Secondly, this far right canard is all about deregulation - animal welfare??? like he gives a shit about that... but hell he talks out of both sides of his gob...

September 23, 2019

Indeed.



Heh
September 23, 2019

Right-winger compares Greta Thunberg to the Nazis

Greta Thunberg is attempting to save the world for future generations, a stance that surely shouldn’t split people along political lines.

In 2019, however, the teenager is the subject of bullies online for having the temerity to try and save the planet. The latest attack on Thunberg comes courtesy of Donald Trump stan and far-right provocateur, Dinesh D'Souza. He took to Twitter with this audacious claim over the weekend

Children—notably Nordic white girls with braids and red cheeks—were often used in Nazi propaganda. An old Goebbels technique! Looks like today’s progressive Left is still learning its game from an earlier Left in the 1930s


[link:https://www.indy100.com/article/greta-thunberg-nazis-dinesh-dsouza-right-wing-9116311|]

Not going to link the tweet. You can find it in the body of the article. Insane nasty though


September 23, 2019

Since our leaders seem to think it is OK to steal democracy whenever they want, I have a plan...

The hard right and the hard left have hijacked the political discourse in the UK and they are not representative of most of us. Let’s face it we are a middle of the road nation and until austerity Britain and then Brexit, moderation was the key, irrespective of the party which you supported. Now – not so much.

You know they chunter on about taking back control? Well, I have a plan to do exactly that…

Step One. All centre left in Labour and all centre right in the Conservative party resign their parties’ whip and cross the floor.

Step Two. Along with those who have already been expelled, or quit, from the two main parties, alongside the Liberal Democrats, the Greens and the SNP, form a collation to create a moderate majority.

Step Three. This collation engages with the mother and the father of the House to lead them through this current democratic crisis.

Step Four. The collation calls for a vote of no confidence in the current Prime Minister. Which he will, of course lose. Corbyn will insist that he gets the chance to form a government that has the confidence of the House. He too will lose.

Step Five. A government of national unity is formed with a joint PM role for the mother and the father of the House (so no-one can bitch that the left or right has more power).

Step Six. They ask for an extension to Brexit for a period no less than 12 months.

Step Seven. They have a second referendum during this period and if Brexit wins again they bring forth a credible long term plan to exit sensibly and like grownups.

Step Eight. They call a general election. The political landscape will have changed significantly, and the old parties will be washed out. Which cannot be a bad thing.

Look. The Moderate Majority TAKING BACK CONTROL
Heh

September 22, 2019

Results of Summer Season Comp are up in GD

Well that was a close run thing!!!



Link here! https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212485621

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About Soph0571

I am a Brit. I am a working class child of the troubles in Belfast who now lives a life of privilege. I am an anti-racist, progressive monster for truth. If I fail in being that monster, call me out....
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