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AmbarSonofDeshar Since: Jan, 2010
#178351: Mar 17th 2017 at 9:46:08 AM

Donald Trump announced he is sending the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-FAM) and the Heritage Foundation to the 61st annual United Nations Commission on the Status of Women as part of the U.S. delegation this month. Both groups have long records of fighting against expanded rights for women and the LGBTQ community; and one of them has even been declared a hate group.

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#178352: Mar 17th 2017 at 9:50:56 AM

I guess we shouldn't be surprised given that we've got a pussy-grabbing fan of the late and un-lamented Phyllis Schlafly in the WH.

Disgusted, but not surprised
TheWanderer Student of Story from Somewhere in New England (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
Student of Story
#178353: Mar 17th 2017 at 9:53:24 AM

~Pushover Media Critic

You can't really ask people to summarize several weeks worth of news for you, especially when there's no much. Here's a good resource to use to get a day by day summary of the news. Otherwise, a number of news sites use have a system where you can look through their archives and see the current or past headlines and stories. Here are ones for Vox and The Atlantic for example. You may find those useful.

edited 17th Mar '17 9:53:35 AM by TheWanderer

| Wandering, but not lost. | If people bring so much courage to this world...◊ |
PushoverMediaCritic I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out. from the Italy of America Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out.
#178354: Mar 17th 2017 at 10:05:44 AM

I was asking for a summary of one week's worth of events. Most weeks in all of history haven't been packed with as much bullshit as every week under the Trump administration has been.

On Trump's hate groups:... why hasn't anyone even attempted to assassinate him? I'm not calling for it, I'm just confused why I haven't heard reports of a single actual attempt. Given how Donald Trump might be the most hated person on Earth right now, you'd think someone would be stupid enough to try.

edited 17th Mar '17 10:06:27 AM by PushoverMediaCritic

thatindiantroper Since: Feb, 2015
#178355: Mar 17th 2017 at 10:07:10 AM

[up] Because killing the President is very, very hard ?

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#178356: Mar 17th 2017 at 10:07:59 AM

[up][up] Could we not go down this road any further on this thread? It's honestly kind of disturbing.

edited 17th Mar '17 10:08:07 AM by M84

Disgusted, but not surprised
unknowing from somewhere.. Since: Mar, 2014
#178357: Mar 17th 2017 at 10:08:59 AM

And people are perplex about is erratic behivor, we dislike him for bieng asshole but no into "I have to kill him" levels.

"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"
thatindiantroper Since: Feb, 2015
#178358: Mar 17th 2017 at 10:12:38 AM

Not to mention a successful presidential assassination is the perfect excuse to declare martial law.

speedyboris Since: Feb, 2010
#178359: Mar 17th 2017 at 10:16:51 AM

The last thing we need is for him to turn into a martyr. No, he needs to be removed through the proper method: By defeating him in the 2020 election. Or impeachment, if we want him gone sooner.

edited 17th Mar '17 10:18:51 AM by speedyboris

CrimsonZephyr Would that it were so simple. from Massachusetts Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
Would that it were so simple.
#178360: Mar 17th 2017 at 10:17:37 AM

Mosque bombed; ordered by Trump; 57 people dead, probably more; US equated with Assad and Russia by Syrians on the ground; allegedly to strike back at ISIS; only killed innocent people during prayer.

Send our president to the Hague and throw away the key.

"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."
M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#178361: Mar 17th 2017 at 10:25:47 AM

[up] Anyone who would still defend Trump after this can go fuck themselves IMHO.

Disgusted, but not surprised
PushoverMediaCritic I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out. from the Italy of America Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out.
#178362: Mar 17th 2017 at 10:26:07 AM

I reiterate my question.

CrimsonZephyr Would that it were so simple. from Massachusetts Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
Would that it were so simple.
#178363: Mar 17th 2017 at 10:28:28 AM

Because no one is willing to throw away their future because of Trump; can we move on?

This talk of assassination bothers me. I'm a brown man, I don't want to give DHS a reason to break down my door.

edited 17th Mar '17 10:28:49 AM by CrimsonZephyr

"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."
thatindiantroper Since: Feb, 2015
#178364: Mar 17th 2017 at 10:29:28 AM

[up][up] I reiterate my point. It's really fucking hard.

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#178365: Mar 17th 2017 at 10:33:40 AM

More details on how AHCA will screw over older Americans.

tl;dr: An age tax that will screw people in their 50s to mid 60s.

Calling the AHCA a clusterfuck is an insult to clusterfucks.

edited 17th Mar '17 10:36:06 AM by M84

Disgusted, but not surprised
AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#178366: Mar 17th 2017 at 10:36:13 AM

We've gone through this whole assassination discussion before. It was disturbingly callous and the fact that Trump is a horrible man and president doesn't make it any less disturbingly callous. Plus, hey, actually successful attempts don't actually seem to make things better, they just make people more scared.

We need to be better than to wish for someone's death like this.

carbon-mantis Collector Of Fine Oddities from Trumpland Since: Mar, 2010 Relationship Status: Married to my murderer
Collector Of Fine Oddities
#178367: Mar 17th 2017 at 10:39:44 AM

@Mosque, pentagon is claiming that while it did conduct an air strike in the area, photos of a destroyed mosque (all provided to media by Salafist group Ahrar al-Sham) are fake and the mosque claimed to be destroyed is still standing. They are currently not denying the casualty count.

edited 17th Mar '17 10:41:31 AM by carbon-mantis

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#178368: Mar 17th 2017 at 10:41:31 AM

For once I am actually hoping that a piece of "fake news" actually is fake news. Which of course means it's probably real.

edited 17th Mar '17 10:41:52 AM by M84

Disgusted, but not surprised
LinkToTheFuture A real bad hombre from somewhere completely different Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
A real bad hombre
#178369: Mar 17th 2017 at 10:46:22 AM

I haven't seen that reported anywhere else. Not on CNN, not on NYT, not on WSJ, not on BBC, and not on r/all, for whatever that's worth. Seems to me like it's more likely than not to be fake news.

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." -Thomas Edison
thatindiantroper Since: Feb, 2015
#178370: Mar 17th 2017 at 11:17:00 AM

If it is, good. But if it gets picked up by wider sources and then turns out to be false then it'll help Trump cement his fake news narrative.

edited 17th Mar '17 11:17:21 AM by thatindiantroper

sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#178371: Mar 17th 2017 at 11:24:56 AM

http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-trump-property/

Russian elite invested nearly $100 million in Trump buildings

MIAMI/MOSCOW – During the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald J. Trump downplayed his business ties with Russia. And since taking office as president, he has been even more emphatic.

“I can tell you, speaking for myself, I own nothing in Russia,” President Trump said at a news conference last month. “I have no loans in Russia. I don’t have any deals in Russia.”

But in the United States, members of the Russian elite have invested in Trump buildings. A Reuters review has found that at least 63 individuals with Russian passports or addresses have bought at least $98.4 million worth of property in seven Trump-branded luxury towers in southern Florida, according to public documents, interviews and corporate records.

TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#178372: Mar 17th 2017 at 11:52:40 AM

Okay, did anyone watch this conference with Merkel and Trump? Not only did Trump at one point, refuse to shake her hand, he doubled down AGAIN on the Wiretapping claim. He looked at Merkel directly, saying "At least we have something in common, perhaps." in reference to the wire tap.

Merkel appropriately looks confused AF.

New Survey coming this weekend!
thatindiantroper Since: Feb, 2015
#178373: Mar 17th 2017 at 11:54:54 AM

Having to meet Trump is enough to make any world leader regret their life choices.

Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#178374: Mar 17th 2017 at 11:59:21 AM

Eh, they're used to meeting idiots, tyrants, and egotists. That's part of daily life as a world leader. What they aren't used to is that kind of thing coming from a U.S. President.

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Zarastro Since: Sep, 2010
#178375: Mar 17th 2017 at 12:01:54 PM

I feel really sorry for the Queen if she has to meet him once Trump travels to the UK. Such a classy lady should not have to endure a meeting with a vulgar man like him in her old age.

edited 17th Mar '17 12:02:19 PM by Zarastro


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