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tclittle Professional Forum Ninja from Somewhere Down in Texas Since: Apr, 2010
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#281901: May 30th 2019 at 9:40:05 PM

Tweet: Cruz agrees to work with Ocasio-Cortez on anti-lobbying bill to ban any former members of Congress from becoming lobbyists for life.

"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."
HallowHawk Since: Feb, 2013
#281902: May 30th 2019 at 11:01:37 PM

Something Trump predicted to himself two decades ago.

Things really are wrong if not only Trump won but that he was right about how he'd win.

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#281903: May 30th 2019 at 11:04:59 PM

[up] That quote is bogus.

Politifact's fact check on it

This is why you shouldn't get your news from random tweets.

Edited by M84 on May 31st 2019 at 2:05:19 AM

Disgusted, but not surprised
tclittle Professional Forum Ninja from Somewhere Down in Texas Since: Apr, 2010
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#281904: May 30th 2019 at 11:05:10 PM

[nja]That quote is fake. Snopes article on it.

Despite People‘s comprehensive online content archive, we found no interview or profile on Donald Trump in 1998 (or any other time) that quoted his saying anything that even vaguely resembled the words in this meme. Trump appeared somewhat regularly in the magazine’s pages before he came to star on The Apprentice, but the bulk of the magazine’s celebrity-driven coverage of him back then centered on his marriages to, and divorces from, Ivana Trump and Marla Maples.

Edited by tclittle on May 30th 2019 at 1:05:29 PM

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#281905: May 31st 2019 at 2:21:42 AM

Goddamnit, one of his ex-wives was named Ivana? As if his comments about and interactions with his daughter, Ivanka, weren't already creepy enough.

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#281906: May 31st 2019 at 2:27:19 AM

Ivana is Ivanka's mother.

Disgusted, but not surprised
Pseudopartition Screaming Into The Void from The Cretaeceous Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
Screaming Into The Void
#281907: May 31st 2019 at 6:08:01 AM

Wow, those tariffs really seem like a smart move when you're trying to finalize a trade agreement with Mexico.

It's not just the Mexican tariffs that are probably going to raise food prices, flooding and other extreme weather in the Midwest is going to have a severe impact on the growing season there. Severe weather patterns like this are linked to climate change, so also don't assume that this is going to be a single season problem.

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#281908: May 31st 2019 at 7:46:36 AM

It's going to be hard to undo the damage, too. We can remove the tariffs, but convincing people to actually lower prices rather than pocket the difference is an entirely different beast.

It's the same reason trickle-down doesn't work. When you give people more money, what happens is that those people have more money and they are very happy.

Edited by TobiasDrake on May 31st 2019 at 8:47:25 AM

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#281909: May 31st 2019 at 7:50:05 AM

Trickle down economics results in a trickle not a river to the people.

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carbon-mantis Collector Of Fine Oddities from Trumpland Since: Mar, 2010 Relationship Status: Married to my murderer
Collector Of Fine Oddities
#281910: May 31st 2019 at 9:28:11 AM

Tariffs are going to totally fuck the manufacturing sector too. We get a load of raw materials and components from Mexico that go through final assembly stateside.

ironballs16 Since: Jul, 2009 Relationship Status: Owner of a lonely heart
#281911: May 31st 2019 at 10:53:38 AM

[up][up]

And that trickle is suspiciously yellow-colored...

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#281912: May 31st 2019 at 10:54:30 AM

-Spits out the tea-

thanks for that

have a listen and have a link to my discord server
AzurePaladin She/Her Pronouns from Forest of Magic Since: Apr, 2018 Relationship Status: Mu
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#281914: May 31st 2019 at 11:23:43 AM

I just checked back through when I was gone, and I'm surprised no one has brought this up. And, to be honest, kinda disappointed.

Transgender Rights are under attack from multiple fronts across the United States.

The Trump administration is moving to make it even easier to discriminate against Trans people in health care, on top of previous moves. It is at the point where a doctor can now cite religion and refuse treatment to Trans people. Not just for Trans related healthcare, but for anything. In the hospital? Better hope your doctor is willing to treat you and not just leave you for dead.

Additionally (and the one that scares me most), the Department of H.U.D. is moving to allow homeless shelters to force Trans people in them to use accommodations for bathrooms and sleeping based on birth sex and not gender identity. This I fear will have a freezing effect on homeless Trans people (and Trans people are more likely to be homeless than the average person) from visiting these shelters, making them more likely to die.

Moreover, the Justice department is pushing to make it legal to be able to fire someone on account of them being Trans. This could make it harder for Trans people, particularly poorer Trans people, to be able to come out and keep some degree of financial security.

This is on the backdrop of multiple Trans women of color being found murdered recently, particularly in the city of Dallas. Violence against Trans people and especially Trans people of color continues unabated, and the Republicans continue to try to push us under rather than help.

Though at times, even the Democrats aren't great on these issues. I don't usually use New Republic, but this helped encapsulate some of my frustrations with left-leaning folks and Democrats when it comes to these issues.

Its not just the military anymore, the attacks are coming against our basic needs. Please support us here too.

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wisewillow She/her Since: May, 2011
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#281915: May 31st 2019 at 11:26:53 AM

These attacks on trans people are unconscionable. We need to push back hard; call your state and federal representatives ASAP.

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#281916: May 31st 2019 at 11:31:52 AM

Republicans attacking a vulnerable minority is sadly par for the course, still, it's certainly something worth drawing attention to.

Democrats, on the other hand, who fail to properly support Trans interests are unconscionable. They need to get their act together, no one should be thrown under the bus especially not in the counterproductive desire to court bigots.

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AzurePaladin She/Her Pronouns from Forest of Magic Since: Apr, 2018 Relationship Status: Mu
She/Her Pronouns
#281917: May 31st 2019 at 12:57:49 PM

Sadly, its not always just to court bigots. Sometimes, they are merely bigots in and of themselves.

There have been times that courting bigots happens. Roy Cooper in North Carolina, for instance, I've never truly forgiven over his actions after the 2016 elections. Yet sometimes, like with the cases with Warren and Harris, its because they genuinely didn't see us as deserving of the same or humane treatment. Bigotry is not merely the purview of the Republicans, only much much more so.

And people can change - Warren has changed a lot, Harris...tried to dodge as much of the blame as possible, Sanders put up a flag outside his office. Yet so many times, even when Democrats choose to push more for Trans rights, that support stops when it comes to helping the incarcerated or the homeless or sex workers, or to taking a stronger stance on racism and how it intersects the lives of Trans POC.

These issues are harder to grapple with than just supporting letting Trans people into the military, yet a lot of commentators tend to focus on the military - and not the rest of this stuff.

When I said a while back "the military ban is a show of intent" this is what I meant. That was the opening act. Here comes the bigger issues.

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#281918: May 31st 2019 at 2:39:31 PM

I think that Kamala Harris also displays a trans flag outside of her office now as well.

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LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#281919: May 31st 2019 at 2:39:45 PM

It was brought up by the way, but there wasn't a lot of comment on it. It just kind of seems how it goes at this point: Trump administration tries to do something awful, a little discussion, then things sort of move on because we find out like the next day they're trying to do something else awful.

AzurePaladin She/Her Pronouns from Forest of Magic Since: Apr, 2018 Relationship Status: Mu
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#281921: May 31st 2019 at 3:16:04 PM

[up][up] Right, but these aren't just some random bad things. They're rather significant policy shifts.

They are angling to set Transgender rights to square one, and I don't see a whole lot of discussion outside of the trans-centric spaces I inhabit. This isn't "a regular Tuesday" for Trump, its a concerted move attacking our employment rights, healthcare, and housing. Things a lot of people rely on for survival.

We're at code red right now, the NYT is still publishing Transphobic articles, and it feels like the wider world would prefer to ignore us. Ya know?

Doesn't it at least merit some discussion?


Also, the by now obligatory "Manning is still in jail while Barr and company go free" comment from me while I'm here.

Edited by AzurePaladin on May 31st 2019 at 6:16:33 AM

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#281922: May 31st 2019 at 3:26:57 PM

Yeah, this is bigger than just the typical everyday awfulness from the Trump administration.

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#281923: May 31st 2019 at 3:31:36 PM

It's worth discussing in depth, but a lot of things worth discussing in-depth don't get it because there's so much.

Which isn't an excuse, I think just the reasoning. I don't know how much it matters but does Trump, personally care about this, or are there specific members of his administration making this their thing? I know the go to is Pence, but is there anyone else?

Wyldchyld (Old as dirt)
#281924: May 31st 2019 at 3:33:45 PM

So, let me get this straight.

Trump is holding a rally on the 18th June in Orlando to announce his run for a second term (you know, that term he's been running for ever since 21st January 2017), and tickets to the event are being sold on his personal website (according to WHOIS, the domain is owned by The Trump Organisation).

And all of his rallies as president go through this website for ticket sales.

I know there are emoluments cases going through the courts (whether or not they're still held up, I don't know), but isn't this an example of that?

I guess they might want to look into how the DeVos family is benefiting, too, given that they own the place the rally is being held at.

Edited by Wyldchyld on May 31st 2019 at 11:42:38 AM

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AzurePaladin She/Her Pronouns from Forest of Magic Since: Apr, 2018 Relationship Status: Mu
She/Her Pronouns
#281925: May 31st 2019 at 3:42:20 PM

[up][up] Carson is in charge of HUD, a move there would have been by him.

And IIRC eroding the healthcare provisions are part of Trump's push to remove Obama era protections, while the employment rules have been in the sight of Conservatives in general for a while now.

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