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Duterte is the kind of president Trump wants to be, with a dash of Putin and a big side order of Kim.
Disgusting.
What's the point of being a "strong leader" if you don't have any discretion?
I liked it better when Questionable Casting was called WTH Casting Agency
And a little of Erdogan as well.
edited 24th May '17 4:01:28 PM by Rationalinsanity
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Because discretion is for the weak and losers, duh. To be a true "strong leader," you can't have anything holding you back from doing what is right and/or necessary.
"That's all he wanted": Devout Catholic Sean Spicer gets cut from Trump's visit with Pope Francis
Ha!
edited 24th May '17 4:09:42 PM by JBC31187
Cutting Spicer from the visit to the Pope just seems like a jerk move.
I liked it better when Questionable Casting was called WTH Casting Agency
Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign?
Well that security cooperation was good while it lasted. No idea what specifically it helped keep from me, but that was kinda the point...
Carson may have been commenting on this:
For the first time, poor people receiving housing subsidies may be required to work
The largest of Trump's $6.2 billion in proposed cuts to HUD is the elimination of the four-decade-old Community Development Block Grant program, which provides cities with money for affordable housing and other community needs, such as fighting blight, improving infrastructure and delivering food to home-bound seniors. The $3 billion in block grants, which benefit 1,250 state and local recipients, make up half of the cuts to HUD.
The Trump administration, in making its case to terminate the block grant program, argues that it "has not demonstrated results." Its purpose is so broad, its nature so flexible, that it has become too challenging to measure the program's impact in terms of improving communities, the administration says.
Also slated for the cutting board: other grant programs worth more than $1 billion meant to help hundreds of communities improve neighborhoods with distressed public housing, expand the supply of affordable housing, and assist low-income home buyers willing to help build their own houses.
In addition to shuttering the grant programs, the budget proposes cutting the $37 billion rental assistance program by $2 billion through "policies that encourage work and self-sufficiency, including increases to tenant rent contributions," the document said.
Rental reforms for 2018 would include raising tenant rent contribution from 30 percent of adjusted income up to 35 percent of gross income, establishing a minimum rental payment of $50 a month and eliminating utility reimbursements. Exemptions would be made for hardships.
By 2019, the agency plans to present more comprehensive changes that include a "a path for work-able families to move toward self-sufficiency," according to the proposal.
The budget does not offer further details about how work requirements, which would require statutory change, would be introduced. Elsewhere in the budget, the administration requests that Congress grant it blanket authority to change statutory or regulatory requirements for HUD programs.
Diane Yentel, president of the National Low Income Housing Coalition, said only six percent of households receiving federal subsidies include able-bodied adults who don't already work and who are not caring for young children or dependents with disabilities. Establishing work requirements for this small population would require already underfunded state and local housing agencies to institute cumbersome monitoring and enforcement systems, she said.
HUD's rental assistance programs provide housing subsidies for 4.5 million low-income households through vouchers, public housing or rental assistance for specific housing developments. The rental programs make up 85 percent of the agency's $41 billion budget request.
And in further schadenfreude news:
Lawmakers In West Virginia Celebrate Legalisation Of Raw Milk By Drinking It And Getting Sick
Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign?
Ok, there's saving face and then there's... what he said.
And then:
RE that information about the Manchester bombing, I find it darkly amusing that somehow Donald Trump managed to be a villain (obviously not the villain) in that attack.
While amusing, that milk story seems to be from last year.
Why did they want to legalize it in the first place? Money?
I liked it better when Questionable Casting was called WTH Casting Agency
Probably, but I'd imagine that the GOP's free market mania played a big part in it.
That milk story is at least a year old and has an 'unproven' status on Snopes.
If my post doesn't mention a giant flying sperm whale with oversized teeth and lionfish fins for flippers, it just isn't worth reading.
Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign?
About that theory that the Commander-in-Chief just follows the last person he spoke to: Trump 'determined to pursue peace' after Pope meeting
This is only if you want to read of us salting a wound: Texas sheriff defends Facebook post on Manchester attack
Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018
Ah, dammit. I'll pay more attention next time.
Asgore Adopts Noelle
Holy crap! If that's true. I hope the Journalist is okay.
If that's true, doesn't that mean Quist will win? I mean, the Republican Candidate might go to jail for assault. Even if they drop Gianforte, who are they going to replace him with? Can they even replace him at this point?
The election is tomorrow.
On the raw milk thing: it actually can be a huge advantage to cheesemakers to have it available, otherwise they have to have their own cows or be unable to make certain types of cheese. It shouldn't be drunk straight up, however.
The special election is literally tomorrow. Currently the polls seem to be wildly inconsistent, most polls have been showing Greg Gianforte (R) with a comfortable lead, but there are other polls, taken at basically the same time and from equally reputable sources, that show Rob Quist (D) with a similarly comfortable lead.
My gut feeling is that the incident might make undecideds break towards Rob Quist, which he'll probably need to secure a win, but it's hard to say how it will impact Gianforte's supporters.
I saw that story and also did some googling on Gianforte. What a fucking asshole.
Until now all I knew of the election was the fact that the Democrat running, Quist, was Sanders backed, and there was some controversy over whether he was getting enough DNC support (any DNC support?) I feel bad I didn't send Quist a donation.
Asgore Adopts Noelle
Certainly sounds like Gianforte did assault a News Reporter. That's just disgusting. Hopefully the people of Montana don't give this Criminal a seat.
Also, remember how Jeff Session's 'forgot' to mention he had contacted 2 Russian Diplomats during his Under Oath Senate Hearing to become the Attorney General? He 'forgot' to mentions those meetings when applying for Security Clearance as well.
Bah, some scum will vote for him because of this assault.
Its the conservative/reactionary way lately.
I'll take Felonies for $600 Alex.
edited 24th May '17 5:37:24 PM by Rationalinsanity
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.