The Many Faces of US Politics...

[seafoid]

Hate speech now should be controlled. The soi disant dangerous f**got is a provocateur

But then you run into the problem of who gets to define what is hate speech.

Start off with Twitter

[screenexile]

Roll back on Obamas background check bill . . . "Make America Safe Again"

[sid waddell]

Hate speech now should be controlled. The soi disant dangerous f**got is a provocateur

But then you run into the problem of who gets to define what is hate speech.

Where do our Trumpets stand on free speech for, say, Abu Hamza, one wonders?

[Gabriel_Hurl]

So - this wall - doesn't really sound like much of a wall if you can see through it  - unless they are talking about a fence.

[screenexile]

So - this wall - doesn't really sound like much of a wall if you can see through it  - unless they are talking about a fence.

But we were promised a 'big, beautiful wall'

[Hardy]

I can't see the Mexicans paying for a half-assed wall like that.

[sid waddell]

It's an alternative wall.

[seafoid]

So - this wall - doesn't really sound like much of a wall if you can see through it  - unless they are talking about a fence.

But we were promised a 'big, beautiful wall'

It will be designed to.prevent Americans from leaving.

[seafoid]

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/02/corporate-dark-money-power-atlantic-lobbyists-brexit

Trump's extraordinary plan to cut federal spending by $10.5tn was drafted by the Heritage Foundation, which called it a "blueprint for a new administration". Vought and Gray, who moved on to Trump's team from Heritage, are now turning this blueprint into his first budget.
This will, if passed, inflict devastating cuts on healthcare, social security, legal aid, financial regulation and environmental protections; eliminate programmes to prevent violence against women, defend civil rights and fund the arts; and will privatise the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Trump, as you follow this story, begins to look less like a president and more like an intermediary, implementing an agenda that has been handed down to him.

[seafoid]

http://www.bradford-delong.com/2017/02/statement-for-the-bbc-on-the-disruption-of-berkeley-speaker-event-on-february-1-2017.html

If the members of the Berkeley Republican Club believe that their invited speaker has ideas about politics and moral philosophy that are--even potentially--great, I really wish that they would explain why they think they are great. They have a duty to the university to do so. But perhaps they invited their speaker because they hoped he would make African-American, Asian, Hispanic, Muslim, and other minority members of the university feel small and unsafe. If so they need to examine their consciences and pray to their gods, and think hard about whether they understand the purpose of a university.
For a university is not just a safe space for ideas to be expressed, and a place where such ideas are then to be examined and assessed, but it is also a safe space for scholars. All members of the university have a duty to make all other members feel welcome, and feel that they belong. Violations of that basic courtesy also cast doubt on whether people understand the purpose of a university, and, indeed, whether their time ought to be spent outside one.

[Declan]

Day 13 - This is exhausting

1.Donald Trump White House Dress Code Policy? Female Staffers Must 'Dress Like Women,' President Says

2. A draft of an executive order says the government will not force individuals or organizations to engage in activities that may "violate their conscience." The draft, titled, "Establishing a Government-Wide Initiative to Respect Religious Freedom," from two sources.
If signed, the order would appear to allow employers to deny employee health coverage for contraception and abortion. It also would permit federally funded adoption and family services organizations to discriminate against same-sex couples.Further, it would protect the tax-exempt status of any religious organization or privately held company that "believes, speaks, or acts (or declines to act) in accordance with the belief that marriage is or should be recognized as the union of one man and one woman, sexual relations are properly reserved for such a marriage, male and female and their equivalents refer to an individual's immutable biological sex as objectively determined by anatomy, physiology, or genetics at or before birth, and that human life begins at conception and merits protection at all stages of life."

3. - DONALD TRUMP'S ADVISOR Kellyanne Conway has told US TV that the President's controversial travel ban would avoid events like the "Bowling Green massacre" – an event which never happened. Speaking to MSNBC's Chris Matthews, Trump's former campaign manager said that Barack Obama had banned travel for Muslims in light of the massacre in Kentucky. But both parts of her answer are untrue."I bet it's brand new information to people that President Obama had a six-month ban on the Iraqi refugee program after two Iraqis came here to this country, were radicalised and they were the masterminds behind the Bowling Green massacre."Most people don't know that because it didn't get covered."

In 2011, two Iraqi refugees were arrested in Bowling Green on terrorism charges. When US authorities looked into the case, it transpired one of their fingerprints had been found on a roadside bomb used to attack American troops in Iraq.That led to an Obama-ordered review of 57,000 asylum applications. Because of the intensive nature of the work, applications from Iraq were slowed down. However, no ban was ever ordered, nor was there any massacre or planned massacre in Bowling Green. The two men arrested, Waad Ramadan Alwan and Mohanad Shareef Hammadi were suspected of plotting to send money and weapons back to Iraqi insurgents, not attack America.

4. The US House of Representatives has voted to remove an Obama-era regulation on background checks that aimed to prevent the mentally ill from obtaining firearms.
The Republican-led House voted 235 to 180 largely upon party lines to bar efforts by the Social Security Administration (SSA) to bar disability recipients with mental disorders from owning guns.
The legislation now heads to the Senate.

5. White House nixed Holocaust statement naming Jews

The State Department wrote a message that recognized Jewish victims, but the White House used its own that didn't.
The State Department drafted its own statement last month marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day that explicitly included a mention of Jewish victims, according to people familiar with the matter, but President Donald Trump's White House blocked its release.
The existence of the draft statement adds another dimension to the controversy around the White House's own statement that was released on Friday and set off a furor because it excluded any mention of Jews. The White House has stood by the statement, defending it as an "inclusive" message that was not intended to marginalize Jewish victims of the Holocaust.

6. A man was detained at Dulles Tuesday because he visited Iran 3 years ago. He's the former prime minister of Norway.

[seafoid]

Day 13 - This is exhausting

1.Donald Trump White House Dress Code Policy? Female Staffers Must 'Dress Like Women,' President Says

2. A draft of an executive order says the government will not force individuals or organizations to engage in activities that may "violate their conscience." The draft, titled, "Establishing a Government-Wide Initiative to Respect Religious Freedom," from two sources.
If signed, the order would appear to allow employers to deny employee health coverage for contraception and abortion. It also would permit federally funded adoption and family services organizations to discriminate against same-sex couples.Further, it would protect the tax-exempt status of any religious organization or privately held company that "believes, speaks, or acts (or declines to act) in accordance with the belief that marriage is or should be recognized as the union of one man and one woman, sexual relations are properly reserved for such a marriage, male and female and their equivalents refer to an individual's immutable biological sex as objectively determined by anatomy, physiology, or genetics at or before birth, and that human life begins at conception and merits protection at all stages of life."

3. - DONALD TRUMP'S ADVISOR Kellyanne Conway has told US TV that the President's controversial travel ban would avoid events like the "Bowling Green massacre" – an event which never happened. Speaking to MSNBC's Chris Matthews, Trump's former campaign manager said that Barack Obama had banned travel for Muslims in light of the massacre in Kentucky. But both parts of her answer are untrue."I bet it's brand new information to people that President Obama had a six-month ban on the Iraqi refugee program after two Iraqis came here to this country, were radicalised and they were the masterminds behind the Bowling Green massacre."Most people don't know that because it didn't get covered."

In 2011, two Iraqi refugees were arrested in Bowling Green on terrorism charges. When US authorities looked into the case, it transpired one of their fingerprints had been found on a roadside bomb used to attack American troops in Iraq.That led to an Obama-ordered review of 57,000 asylum applications. Because of the intensive nature of the work, applications from Iraq were slowed down. However, no ban was ever ordered, nor was there any massacre or planned massacre in Bowling Green. The two men arrested, Waad Ramadan Alwan and Mohanad Shareef Hammadi were suspected of plotting to send money and weapons back to Iraqi insurgents, not attack America.

4. The US House of Representatives has voted to remove an Obama-era regulation on background checks that aimed to prevent the mentally ill from obtaining firearms.
The Republican-led House voted 235 to 180 largely upon party lines to bar efforts by the Social Security Administration (SSA) to bar disability recipients with mental disorders from owning guns.
The legislation now heads to the Senate.

5. White House nixed Holocaust statement naming Jews

The State Department wrote a message that recognized Jewish victims, but the White House used its own that didn't.
The State Department drafted its own statement last month marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day that explicitly included a mention of Jewish victims, according to people familiar with the matter, but President Donald Trump's White House blocked its release.
The existence of the draft statement adds another dimension to the controversy around the White House's own statement that was released on Friday and set off a furor because it excluded any mention of Jews. The White House has stood by the statement, defending it as an "inclusive" message that was not intended to marginalize Jewish victims of the Holocaust.

6. A man was detained at Dulles Tuesday because he visited Iran 3 years ago. He's the former prime minister of Norway.

Bannon is in charge

[J70]

But hey... at least Hillary isn't president... or something...

[stew]

But hey... at least Hillary isn't president... or something...

She hates you, she hates your class and the **** should be in prison you dumb bitch, what part of this is difficult for you to comprehend?
Dolt!

[Estimator]

The fact that Conway wasn't even challenged by the interviewer regarding the "Bowling Green" Massacre is very worrying.