Kara Spengler
Queer OccupyE9 Sluni-Goon, any/all pronouns
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Or maybe just not return him?
Or maybe just not return him?
That's the happiest I've seen Melania look in quite a while.
hummmm, should be an interesting morning.
Yeah, I saw this on twitter. Glad to hear it worked.Gay teen played a joke on Trump by getting people to book MAGA rally tickets and then not turn up
A gay teenager has trolled the US president by getting his followers to book free tickets to Trump’s rally and then not turn up.www.indy100.com
More fascism:
Trump Allies Target Journalists Over Coverage Deemed Hostile to White House (Published 2019)
A loose network of conservatives says it has dossiers of offensive social media posts and other problematic public statements by hundreds of journalists.www.nytimes.com
President Trump has suggested multiple times to senior Homeland Security and national security officials that they explore using nuclear bombs to stop hurricanes from hitting the United States, according to sources who have heard the president's private remarks and been briefed on a National Security Council memorandum that recorded those comments.
A different senior administration official, who has been briefed on the president's hurricane bombing suggestion, defended Trump's idea and said it was no cause for alarm. "His goal — to keep a catastrophic hurricane from hitting the mainland — is not bad," the official said. "His objective is not bad."
"What people near the president do is they say 'I love a president who asks questions like that, who’s willing to ask tough questions.' ... It takes strong people to respond to him in the right way when stuff like this comes up. For me, alarm bells weren't going off when I heard about it, but I did think somebody is going to use this to feed into 'the president is crazy' narrative."
Trump didn't invent this idea. The notion that detonating a nuclear bomb over the eye of a hurricane could be used to counteract convection currents dates to the Eisenhower era, when it was floated by a government scientist.
The idea keeps resurfacing in the public even though scientists agree it won't work. The myth has been so persistent that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S. government agency that predicts changes in weather and the oceans, published an online fact sheet for the public under the heading "Tropical Cyclone Myths Page."
The page states: "Apart from the fact that this might not even alter the storm, this approach neglects the problem that the released radioactive fallout would fairly quickly move with the tradewinds to affect land areas and cause devastating environmental problems. Needless to say, this is not a good idea."
She guess in to enumerate the parallels to the movie, lol.Trump suggested dropping nuclear bombs into hurricanes to stop them from hitting the U.S.
Blinks...just...how do you even process this?
By understanding that Trump is literally an idiot.Trump suggested dropping nuclear bombs into hurricanes to stop them from hitting the U.S.
Blinks...just...how do you even process this?
He should start with his own companies..and his daughter's companies .. and his wife's companies... get them out of china and back to the US... just sayingStill more fascism:
Trump claims he has 'absolute right' to order US companies out of China under 1977 law - CNN Politics
President Donald Trump claimed he has the "absolute right" to "order" US companies to stop doing business with China that would involve using his broad executive authority in a new and unprecedented way under a 1977 law.www.cnn.com
Emmanuel Macron invited an unannounced surprise guest to a location next to Biarritz, to have some private talks with him. It was the foreign minister of Iran, Javad Zarif. Especially the White House didn't knew about it.
Trump was not amused and declined to comment - he didn't even tweeted aobut it.
Iranian foreign minister Javad Zarif arrives in Biarritz in surprise visit to G7 leaders summit
Javad Zarif, the Iranian foreign minister, unexpectedly flew into Biarritz on Sunday in a dramatic twist to a G7 leaders summit that is already riven by divisions over Russia, China and trade.www.telegraph.co.uk
Meanwhile Japan is going to buy some of the excess corn the American farmers are sitting on due to the fact that the Chinese don't want it any longer. My opinion is that even after the trade war China won't buy it any more.
There were reportedly lively discussions at Saturday night’s dinner of local Basque cuisine when European leaders including Mr Johnson pushed back at Mr Trump's suggestion that Russian president Vladimir Putin, who was suspended from the G7 after annexing Crimea in 2014, should be readmitted to the forum.
Somewhat technical explainer of his wide-reaching powers (clearly no one in 1979 thought about how "checks and balances" would work out with someone like Trump in the Oval Office and Mitch McConnell running the Senate):He hereby orders! Wow. This is what happens when someone never suffers for their behavior over a 70+ year time period.
Companies that do no business with China whatsoever are few and far between. I reckon that Walmart alone would have empty shelf after empty shelf were they to follow his orders, not to mention most computer/cell phone manufacture would come to a screeching halt. Note that I am not saying that is a good thing that we are so reliant upon their labor and goods, but we put ourselves there largely by large American companies choosing to use the cheaper labor of Chinese workers, most notably to have higher and higher profit margins. It has benefited consumers in the way of lower prices, but ultimately hurt them as once that door was opened jobs began to leave, as well.
The vast majority of money made from using China has been to the upper, say, 10%. Does he really believe they will give that up upon his command? The genie of American businesses seeking out cheap labor across the globe is out of the bottle and has been for at least 30 years give or take. If not China, then they will move to the next because what they seek is to exploit labor no matter where.
He's just pissed that they have enough power to stand up to him. He would prefer that countries he/they exploit have no power.
To me, its seemed like all of that is doing the minimum that Congress is really demanding while attempting to keep Putin placated. I think quitting INF was what Putin wanted us to do.It seems like a contradiction - which it might not be, depending on the goals of that step.
Yes, I have read that, unfortunately, he can attempt to do this, but holy cow, does he have any idea how crippling this could be to this country? At this point, our economies are incredibly linked. He's not smart or interested in learning enogh to have read anything about these powers. I wonder who is whispering in his ear. I do know that Bannon considered China the biggest threat on the planet, but he's long gone.Somewhat technical explainer of his wide-reaching powers (clearly no one in 1979 thought about how "checks and balances" would work out with someone like Trump in the Oval Office and Mitch McConnell running the Senate):
What Comes After Tariffs: An IEEPA Primer
The Trump administration released its latest escalation in the budding trade war with China on July 10: a 195-page list of $200 billion worth of Chinese goods thatwww.lawfareblog.com
Putin?I wonder who is whispering in his ear.
The idea was examined during the Eisenhower administration and discarded for stupidity. I remember Trump reportedly saying (during a NSC briefing) that we ought to be able to use nukes because hey "what are they for?". I got the impression that he's never even seen the films from the nuke tests we did in the 50s and 60s, nor watched/read any analysis of Hiroshima or Nagasaki as far as the impact on civilians. Or if he did, his brain can't wrap around the idea of "other people".Trump suggested dropping nuclear bombs into hurricanes to stop them from hitting the U.S.
Blinks...just...how do you even process this?
I am guessing he is not because he already controls them and knows it would be a stupid idea?He should start with his own companies..and his daughter's companies .. and his wife's companies... get them out of china and back to the US... just saying
In truth, its because in Trump's eyes - rules are for other people. Its the same with his continuing to employee undocumented workers at his own companies.I am guessing he is not because he already controls them and knows it would be a stupid idea?