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Parable Since: Aug, 2009
#276376: Apr 2nd 2019 at 3:03:34 PM

Trump's now saying he'll close the border only if Congress doesn't do something.

He's backtracking.

Oruka Since: Dec, 2018
#276377: Apr 2nd 2019 at 3:05:50 PM

"Claiming that he is going to do something, do nothing, and then claim victory for doing it has been his number one go to strategy since his first day in office."

I still hear echoes in my head of him screaming how he would fight for "L! G! B! T! Q!".

Vile.

Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#276378: Apr 2nd 2019 at 3:11:41 PM

and he held the flag backwards

not sure if I pothole that Arsen Murder And Jaywalking

have a listen and have a link to my discord server
RainingMetal (Handed A Sword) Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
#276379: Apr 2nd 2019 at 4:48:31 PM

I'm curious; why is the LGBT flag an upside down rainbow? And what does the Q stand for?

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Protagonist506 from Oregon Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#276381: Apr 2nd 2019 at 4:53:26 PM

Queer and the upside down rainbow is a symbol of gay pride

have a listen and have a link to my discord server
sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#276382: Apr 2nd 2019 at 4:58:08 PM

https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2019/04/02/day-803/

    Day 803: "Incompetent or corrupt." 
1/ Trump abandoned his plans to dismantle the Affordable Care Act a week after announcing that his administration agreed with a judge's ruling that the entire health care law should be eliminated. In a string of morning tweets, Trump promised that the "vote will be taken right after" the 2020 election "when Republicans hold the Senate and win back the House." Last week, after directing the Justice Department to support a full dismantling of the ACA on constitutional grounds, Trump urged Republicans to come up with a "spectacular" replacement to the ACA. He called the unwritten Republican proposal "truly great Health Care that will work for America," while promising to unveil the plan "at the appropriate time." He offered no details about when that might be. Mitch Mc Connell, meanwhile, said he had "a good conversation" with Trump and "made it clear to him we were not going to be doing [health care] in the Senate." (Politico / New York Times / Washington Post / Bloomberg / CNN / NBC News)

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/01/trump-health-care-reform-1247632

📌 Day 796: The Trump administration supports a federal appeals court ruling that the entire Affordable Care Act should be invalidated and thrown out. In a reversal, the Justice Department now says it agrees with the ruling of a federal judge in Texas that declared the ACA unconstitutional on the basis of a 2017 change in federal tax law that eliminated the penalty on uninsured people. Previously, the administration had pushed to remove the protections for people with pre-existing conditions. More than 20 million Americans are covered through the ACA's Medicaid expansion and its insurance exchanges. Trump, meanwhile,tweeted that "The Republican Party will become 'The Party of Healthcare!'" (CNN / NPR / Politico / Washington Post / Vox / Axios / Mother Jones / New York Times)

https://www.npr.org/2019/03/26/706869835/trump-administration-now-says-entire-affordable-care-act-should-be-repealed

2/ Trump walked back his threat to close the southwestern border over the increasing number of asylum seekers crossing into the US, saying "we're going to see what happens over the next few days." He added that "If we don't make a deal with Congress, the border's going to be closed […] 100 percent." Last week, Trump threatened that he "will be CLOSING….the Border, or large sections of the Border, next week." While Trump's top economic advisors have briefed him on the consequences of shutting down the border, he told reporters that "security is more important to me than trade." Mc Connell also cautioned that closing the border would be ill-advised and "have potentially catastrophic economic impact on our country, and I would hope we would not be doing that sort of thing." (Washington Post / Politico / Reuters/ NBC News / CNN / USA Today / ABC News)

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration/trump-takes-step-back-from-threat-to-close-border-with-mexico-idUSKCN1RE1PE

3/ Trump blamed Puerto Rico for being "a mess" and called its politicians "incompetent or corrupt" after the Senate blocked billions of dollars in disaster aid for states and territories devastated by natural disasters in recent months. Senators took test votes on two competing measures: Republicans rejected a recovery bill passed by the House, citing Trump's opposition to the bill's Puerto Rico funding. Democrats, meanwhile, rejected the GOP legislation, arguing that the proposed $600 million in nutritional assistance for Puerto Rico was not enough. Trump has been pressuring Democrats to support a disaster relief measure that does not include the money they want for Puerto Rico. (New York Times / ABC News)

https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-lashes-puerto-ricos-incompetent-corrupt-politicians-senate/story?id=62107652

A White House spokesman twice referred to Puerto Rico as "that country" while defending Trump's attacks on the leaders of the U.S. territory. Hogan Gidley later clarified his statement, saying that calling Puerto Rico a country was a "slip of the tongue." (Politico / Washington Post)

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/02/gidley-puerto-rico-country-1249076

poll/ 48% of American describe Trump as "aggressive" and 38% describe him as "mean." Trump scored high for being "insincere," "confident" and "creepy." On the attributes of being "sexy," "impartial," "handsome" and "physically fit," Trump scored between 0 and 4%. (New York Times)

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/01/us/politics/trump-e-score-rating.html

    Notables 
The House Oversight and Reform Committee voted to subpoena the former White House personnel security director accused of overturning security clearances after a whistleblower complained that the Trump administration ignored national security concerns to approve clearances for 25 individuals whose applications were initially denied. Carl Kline will now be forced testify before the panel about his role in approving security clearances. (Washington Post / Politico)

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/02/house-oversight-committee-approves-subpoena-for-probe-into-white-house-security-clearances-1249332

The House Oversight Committee also voted to subpoena Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross for records related to the Commerce Department's decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. Ross testified before the committee in March, denying the citizenship question was intended to influence the allocation of congressional seats across the country. (Axios / Politico)

https://www.axios.com/wilbur-ross-subpoena-house-oversight-committee-cummings-2e909085-344c-4307-8aed-e2c6413e063e.html

A Chinese woman was charged with making false statements to the Secret Service after entering Mar-a-Lago with a thumb drive that contained "malicious software." Yujing Zhang was on the property on while Trump was playing golf at the Trump International course. Zhang told a receptionist she was there to attend an event (which did not exist), presenting documentation written in Chinese she claimed was her invitation to the event. After Secret Service agents were notified, Zhang claimed she was there to "go to the pool." Zhang was carrying two Republic of China passports, four cellphones, a laptop, a hard drive, and a thumb drive with malware on it. (CNBC / Washington Post / WPTV)

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/02/chinese-woman-charged-after-entering-trumps-mar-a-lago-resort.html

The Department of Homeland Security quietly disbanded its domestic terrorism unit last year, saying that the threat of "homegrown violent extremism and domestic terrorism," including the threat from white supremacists, has been "significantly reduced." The branch of analysts in DHS's Office of Intelligence and Analysis were reassigned to new positions. (Daily Beast)

https://www.thedailybeast.com/homeland-security-disbands-domestic-terror-intelligence-unit

Trump claimed for the third time that his father was born in Germany. Fred Trump was born in New York City, in the United States of America. Not Germany. (The Guardian / Washington Post)

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/17/trump-keeps-saying-his-father-was-born-in-germany-he-wasnt

Edited by sgamer82 on Apr 2nd 2019 at 5:58:43 AM

kkhohoho (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#276383: Apr 2nd 2019 at 5:12:50 PM

[up]

the border's going to be closed […] 100 percent."

What is this, the fourth time he's said that now?

TobiasDrake (•̀⤙•́) (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
(•̀⤙•́)
#276384: Apr 2nd 2019 at 5:25:52 PM

Trump abandoned his plans to dismantle the Affordable Care Act a week after announcing that his administration agreed with a judge's ruling that the entire health care law should be eliminated. In a string of morning tweets, Trump promised that the "vote will be taken right after" the 2020 election "when Republicans hold the Senate and win back the House." Last week, after directing the Justice Department to support a full dismantling of the ACA on constitutional grounds, Trump urged Republicans to come up with a "spectacular" replacement to the ACA. He called the unwritten Republican proposal "truly great Health Care that will work for America," while promising to unveil the plan "at the appropriate time." He offered no details about when that might be. Mitch Mc Connell, meanwhile, said he had "a good conversation" with Trump and "made it clear to him we were not going to be doing [health care] in the Senate."

Eeyup, called it. Mitch sat Trump down and told him to walk it back.

Trump hasn't entirely backtracked the claim, mind you. He's trying to use it to incentivize 2020 turnout. He did the same thing in 2018: "Yeah, we'll be doing that after the election. Guess you better vote for us if you want to see the plan come to fruition!"

It's like a weird mob shakedown of his own Cult of Personality. "Boy, it sure is a nice replacement healthcare plan for the ACA that I assure you I've cooked up here. Sure would be a shame if something happened to it."

Edited by TobiasDrake on Apr 2nd 2019 at 6:27:07 AM

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HailMuffins Since: May, 2016 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
#276385: Apr 2nd 2019 at 5:27:01 PM

"No no. He cheated his dead brother's son out of the inheritance. While the son needed to pay for the treatment of his own then toddler son's neurological disorder."

...Jesus.

KeybladeMaster Leader of the Harp Seals from Portland, TN Since: Feb, 2019 Relationship Status: Hello, I love you
Leader of the Harp Seals
#276386: Apr 2nd 2019 at 5:59:22 PM

[up] The more I find out about Trump, the more I realize he's essentially a real life Saturday morning cartoon villain.

Keyblade Master was here
Ramidel Since: Jan, 2001
#276387: Apr 2nd 2019 at 6:31:22 PM

@Rational Insanity: Hey now, don't go comparing Iran to North Carolina! tongue

Though it is funny when North Carolina is suffering from more religiously-inspired asshattery than an actual theocracy where gay men can be put to death.

RainingMetal (Handed A Sword) Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
#276388: Apr 2nd 2019 at 7:18:09 PM

Yes, I know the upside down rainbow is for gay pride, but how did that come to be? Why not a right-side-up rainbow?

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DeMarquis (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#276389: Apr 2nd 2019 at 7:19:24 PM

So far, Trump hasn't done one darn thing that affected anything in real life. He isnt going to start now.

I'm done trying to sound smart. "Clear" is the new smart.
MarqFJA The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer from Deserts of the Middle East (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer
#276390: Apr 2nd 2019 at 7:22:10 PM

[up][up]Actually, it seems that either order is acceptable, and in fact according to Wikipedia, it's "typically flown horizontally, with the red stripe on top, as it would be in a natural rainbow."

Also, according to the same article, it went through multiple revisions (originally it had eight stripes), some of which were simply due to unavailability of the right fabrics (e.g. during 1978–79 it lost the hot pink stripe).

Edited by MarqFJA on Apr 2nd 2019 at 5:24:35 PM

Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.
PhysicalStamina i'm tired, my friend (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Coming soon to theaters
i'm tired, my friend
#276391: Apr 2nd 2019 at 7:22:51 PM

So far, Trump hasn't done one darn thing that affected anything in real life.

...you wanna tell us what alternate dimension you're posting from, chief?

i'm tired, my friend
Draghinazzo (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
#276392: Apr 2nd 2019 at 7:23:20 PM

[up]Agreed. I'm having some real trouble parsing that statement.

Edited by Draghinazzo on Apr 2nd 2019 at 10:23:37 AM

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#276393: Apr 2nd 2019 at 7:24:38 PM

So far, Trump hasn't done one darn thing that affected anything in real life. He isnt going to start now.

...Bwuh?

Disgusted, but not surprised
LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#276394: Apr 2nd 2019 at 7:28:05 PM

Yeah, I'm going to need further clarification on that, too.

Steven (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
#276395: Apr 2nd 2019 at 7:31:56 PM

I'm gonna call bullshit too because that mindset is the reason why we are in this effing mess in the first place.

Remember, these idiots drive, fuck, and vote. Not always in that order.
Soban Since: Aug, 2009 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
#276396: Apr 2nd 2019 at 7:35:21 PM

That's a little baffling to me too, as I while I don't think he hasn't done as much damage as some here think and perhaps some good (In much the same way that a bull in a china shop might accidentally break a truly horrendous looking piece of china.) He hasn't done nothing, and much of it can only be reversed with a lot of hard work in the future if ever.

DeMarquis (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#276397: Apr 2nd 2019 at 7:36:00 PM

Name one policy that stuck, and don't include the Republicans in Congress. I mean just Trump himself. Everything he has tried to do has either failed, or was just empty symbolism.

Ok, one exception, the defunding of certain gov't agencies. I'm sure that had real consequences somewhere. But everything else, from the Wall to dismantling Obamacare to his Muslim immigration ban, to obstructing justice, even separating families at the border was eventually stopped, reversed, failed, or never started in the first place.

Ok, one other success: two Supreme Court appointments, even though I think that those choices were made by others behind the scenes (he basically just copy/pasted a pre-existing list).

But that's it, really. Everything else has been theater. Symbolic gestures to placate a core base that just wants theater anyway.

I'm done trying to sound smart. "Clear" is the new smart.
AzurePaladin She/Her Pronouns from Forest of Magic Since: Apr, 2018 Relationship Status: Mu
She/Her Pronouns
#276398: Apr 2nd 2019 at 7:37:29 PM

[up] So...how about cutting the amount of people allowed to immigrate from certain countries in the Middle East? Or banning Trans people from the military? Or the increase in ICE raids? Or putting more children in camps along the border? Or-

But I digress.

Edited by AzurePaladin on Apr 2nd 2019 at 10:38:29 AM

The awful things he says and does are burned into our cultural consciousness like a CRT display left on the same picture too long. -Fighteer
wisewillow She/her Since: May, 2011
She/her
#276399: Apr 2nd 2019 at 7:38:12 PM

[up][up]The children in camps, the MASSIVE number of appointments to the federal courts, the effects on businesses and workers from his random tariffs...

Edited by wisewillow on Apr 2nd 2019 at 10:41:13 AM

PhysicalStamina i'm tired, my friend (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Coming soon to theaters
i'm tired, my friend
#276400: Apr 2nd 2019 at 7:39:02 PM

Right, sure, let's just ignore the sharp uptick in hate crimes that just happened to coincide with his campaign and eventual victory, as well as the death of net neutrality at the hands of Trump-appointed FCC chair Ajit Pai, to say nothing of the above.

Edited by PhysicalStamina on Apr 2nd 2019 at 10:39:56 AM

i'm tired, my friend

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