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I've said it before, and I'll say it again: The greatest trick the devil can play is convincing people he doesn't exist.
Leviticus 19:34https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2019/07/16/day-908/
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/16/pelosi-trump-racism-resolution-1417365
2/ Trump – again – denied that his racist tweets were racist, urging House Republicans to "not show 'weakness'" and reject the condemnation resolution. Trump called the resolution a "con game" and claimed that his tweets "were NOT Racist," because "I don't have a Racist bone in my body!" Trump then accused the four Democratic congresswomen – Ayanna Pressley, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar – of "spewing some of the most vile, hateful, and disgusting things ever said by a politician in the House or Senate." (New York Times / Washington Post / The Guardian / Politico)
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/16/trump-attack-progressive-congresswomen-1416579
3/ Kellyanne Conway responded a White House reporter's question about Trump's racist tweets with "What's your ethnicity?" Andrew Feinberg had asked Conway which countries Trump was referring to when he suggested that Ayanna Pressley, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar should "go back" to where they came from. All four congresswomen are U.S. citizens. (Daily Beast / NBC News)
4/ The Justice Department will not bring federal civil rights charges against the New York Police Department officer accused of fatally choking Eric Garner. Attorney General William Barr made the decision not to bring charges due to concerns that prosecutors could not successfully prove the officer acted willfully following a dispute between a Justice Department team from New York and the Civil Rights Division in Washington. Daniel Pantaleo will never face criminal prosecution for Garner's death, despite bystanders filming the arrest as Garner gasped: "I can't breathe." (New York Times / CNN / Politico)
5/ The Trump administration will begin enforcing a new regulation that taxpayer-funded family planning clinics must stop referring women for abortions – effective immediately. Health and Human Services formally notified the clinics that it will begin enforcing the new rule on Monday, in addition to a requirement that clinics maintain separate finances from facilities that provide abortions. A separate requirement that both kinds of facilities cannot be under the same roof is scheduled to take effect next year. (CBS News / Associated Press)
Trump's former campaign communications chief hired numerous prostitutes and visited "hand job" massage parlors as recently as a few months ago. Jason Miller made the admission while testifying on in Washington D.C. in connection to his lawsuit against Gizmodo, accusing the media company of defaming him with a story citing an allegation he slipped an "abortion pill" to a stripper he impregnated. (Mediate)
The House Oversight Committee is expanding an investigation into the use of personal email by Education Secretary Betsy De Vos. Chairman Elijah Cummings said the move came after "disturbing new revelations" released by the Education Department's inspector general in May about De Vos' use of personal email while on the job. (Politico)
Trump named healthcare economist Tomas Philipson as the acting chair of his Council of Economic Advisers. Philipson was already a member of the council, and teaches the economics of healthcare at the University of Chicago. He also served as a top economist at the FDA and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Philipson replaced White House economist Kevin Hassett, who announced his departure on Twitter last month. (NPR)
The revenue from Trump's tariffs on $250 billion worth of Chinese goods is not enough to cover the cost of the bailout for farmers, nor will it be enough to compensate all of the other industries hurt by the ongoing trade war. The tariffs will have brought in $20.8 billion as of Wednesday, but Trump has already committed to paying $28 billion to the farmers hurt by the trade war. The government hasn't provided similar bailouts to other businesses or industries that have lost contracts and revenue as a result of Chinese retaliation. (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/15/business/trade-war-tariffs-revenue.html
The Department of Agriculture will relocate 547 employees from the Economic Research Service and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture to an office building in Kansas City. Employees called the move an effort to "eviscerate" the agency and "silence" researchers doing work that runs counter to the administration's goals. The Trump administration claimed the move would save taxpayers money by bringing researchers closer to the farmers they serve. (NBC News)
The Interior Department will relocate 81% of its headquarters staff to west of the Rockies by 2020. Trump hasn't nominated a permanent director for Bureau of Land Management after more than two-and-a-half years in office. (Washington Post)
Rep. Al Green plans to file articles of impeachment against Trump tonight, forcing a floor vote before the House departs for its August recess. Democrats have viewed Robert Mueller's appearance on Capitol Hill as a potential inflection point to begin impeachment proceedings. Green's move, however, will force House Democrats to take a position sooner than expected. Green has forced two votes on impeachment in the past, one in 2017 and one in 2018, while Republicans controlled the House. (Washington Post / Politico)
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/16/al-green-impeachment-house-democrats-1416845
Also seeing a Reuters notification that former U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens has died at age 99.
https://thehill.com/homenews/news/453428-former-justice-john-paul-stevens-dies-at-age-99
Wikipedia says that while officially registered as a Republican, he was considered liberal-leaning by the time he died. Is that true?
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Edited by MarqFJA on Jul 16th 2019 at 4:12:17 PM
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.![]()
You're right. Technically that counts as armchair psychology because he does not have a diagnosis. However, there are reputable sources who firmly believe it and I see no reason not to treat it as fact at this point.
"That final vote on the resolution condemning Trump's rhetoric as "racist comments that have legitimized increased fear and hatred of new Americans and people of color" passed largely along party lines, 240-187"
Note that when they say largely along party lines, they mean the number of Republicans who condemned Trump could be counted on one hand.
I couldn't agree more.
Considering that Pelosi later said “I stand by my statement. I’m proud of the attention that is being called to it, because what the president said is completely inappropriate against our colleagues" I think it's very unlikely that she' walk back from them.
Hopefully, the House rules can be amended and those racist wretches in the House GOP can be shown that we won't be silent about blatant and unacceptable racism.
"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji YangSo Stevens' death is technically more of a loss for the Democrats than it is for the GOP, right?
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.The thing I find really ironic with Conway's remarks today (namely, this bit where she asks a reporter his ethnicity
before clarifying that she's Irish/Italian) is this - both groups were marginalized in much the same manner as those from Central and South America are now.
'Unfit to be president': Full text of House impeachment resolution on Trump – Read the full text of Rep. Al Green's House impeachment resolution
Am interesting op-ed that suggests a way to tell when Trump is being more dishonest than normal.
'Sir' alert: This one word is a telltale sign Trump is being dishonest
Lots of people do call Trump "sir," of course. But the word seems to pop into his head more frequently when he is inventing or exaggerating a conversation than when he is faithfully relaying one. A "sir" is a flashing red light that he is speaking from his imagination rather than his memory.
In poker parlance, it's a tell.
Trump has told false "sir" stories on all manner of subjects: health care, the Middle East, the courts, unions and — just last week — both tariffs and social media. But no genre of Trump story is more reliably sir-heavy than his collection of suspiciously similar tales about macho men breaking into tears of gratitude in his presence.
In a speech in January, Trump painted a colorful picture of the "strong, tough" farmers, ranchers and builders who stood behind him in 2017 as he signed an executive order to rescind a water regulation. "Half of them were crying," he told the American Farm Bureau Federation, especially one man so tough he might not have cried even "when he was a baby."
"He was crying," Trump repeated. "He said, 'Sir, you gave me back my life. You gave me back my property.'" Touching if true. Absolutely not true.
The signing ceremony happened on camera. The video, still available on the White House's You Tube channel, shows that nobody standing behind Trump was crying.
Edited by sgamer82 on Jul 17th 2019 at 6:14:17 AM
The nomination back in 2016 or the one for this round? I'm genuinely curious.
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The 2016 one. Formally, Trump hasn’t secured the 2020 nomination yet, but we all know that he effectively has.
It's telling that the GOP put that rule in after Trump was nominated. It really says a lot about their priorities.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"A Federal Judge has signed an order, agreed to by both the Justice Department and the opposing Parties, that blocks the Trump Administration from ever adding the Citizenship Question to the Census
, so even if Trump were to win re-election in 2020, this order bars his Administration from adding the Question to the Census. As of now, only Congress can add it during Trump's remaining years.
So that's a victory in and of itself; even if Trump remains President in 2021, he can't legally try to recast the Census with the Question on it.
And in today's weird news: a videogame historian has spotted Microsoft's failed peripheral, the Xbox Kinect, as a security tool at Newark International Airport.

You know, when I was younger I was led to believe things like politics weren’t so black and white. I suppose with my parents, things could have been much worse, except...
Edited by ShinyCottonCandy on Jul 16th 2019 at 7:02:47 AM
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