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https://theintercept.com/2017/02/28/trump-surrogate-suggests-democrats-could-be-behind-bomb-threats-against-jews/
quote:Trump Surrogate Suggests Democrats Could Be Behind Bomb Threats Against Jews
Jewish community centers across the United States are operating in a climate of fear after a fifth wave of bomb threats aimed at Jews on Monday that targeted at least 13 community centers and eight schools in a dozen states.
A top Trump surrogate — hedge funder Anthony Scaramucci, who fundraised for the Trump campaign, joined his transition team, and was in the running for a senior role in the White House — took to Twitter on Tuesday to imply that these threats could be coming from Democrats, rather than from a radical far-right wing that has been emboldened by Trump’s rhetoric and staff choices.
In his first tweet, he referred to a report about Democratic Party-aligned activists who staged raucous protests at Trump events — a far cry from calling in bomb threats against a religious minority.
Scaramucci’s tweets are only the latest sign that the Trump administration, those close to the president, and the wider Republican Party are fundamentally unwilling to either acknowledge or challenge the wave of far-right hate crimes in the United States that has in recent months targeted a wide set of religious and racial minority groups.
Part of their strategy has been to deny any links between Trump’s rhetoric, far-right ideology, and the recent hate crimes.
Trump ally and former Pennsylvania Republican Sen. Rick Santorum appeared on CNN last week to imply, without evidence, that the wave of antisemitic hate crimes is largely coming from Muslim-Americans. Following a neo-Nazi march in Montana, Republican lawmakers there are advancing legislation to crack down on the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement that seeks to hold Israel accountable for human rights abuses — an implication that the Arab American-led movement is responsible for anti-Semitism.
The Trump administration reacted callously last week following a hate crime in Kansas that gained global attention, where a man shot and killed a man of Indian origin and wounded two others, believing them to be Iranian.
When asked whether there was any link between the shooter’s beliefs and Trump’s harsh rhetoric against Muslims, the White House declined to even consider the possibility. “Any loss of life is tragic,” Press Secretary Sean Spicer replied, “but I’m not going to get into, like, that kind of — to suggest that there’s any correlation [to Trump’s rhetoric] I think is a bit absurd.”
Spicer was also asked last week if Trump condemns Islamophobia in general, and he offered no comment, instead making an awkward and telling pivot to the administration’s agenda against “radical Islam.”
“If you come here or want to express views that seek to do our country or people harm, he’s going to fight it aggressively,” he replied — to a question about Islamaphobia. “So there’s a big difference between preventing attacks and making sure that we keep this country safe, so that there is no loss of life.”
Holy poo poo.
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- ded redd
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The entire goddamn administration is compromised.
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Mar 2, 2017 03:13
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- ded redd
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https://twitter.com/michaeldweiss/status/837142268905652226
loving hell, is this common knowledge? This is absurd.
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Mar 2, 2017 04:40
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I don't see it, what am I missing?
Smooth, creamy butter.
You are going to die, so why not spend the rest of your life over a fresh batch of Denny's pancakes?
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Mar 2, 2017 06:43
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https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/837374339733413888
He still wears that loving hat.
Edit: and I get preceded by something way worse.
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Mar 2, 2017 20:01
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Oh goody, can't wait for the next wave of Wahabbism cleric-inspired violence to start.
I'm thinking something with drones this time, they seem trendy enough.
I am so happy we live in an era where senile mushbrains can just go around inspiring radicalism without any accountability.
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Mar 2, 2017 20:35
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- ded redd
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I feel like any day now, a mic is going to pick up somebody in this administration whispering "Hail Hydra."
"Hail Evola" - Steve Bannon
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Mar 2, 2017 20:46
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- ded redd
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"Please write something snarky and liberate me from my living lie dear god!"
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Mar 2, 2017 20:49
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https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/837413733693550592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
I feel like this video should be immortalized for how unbelievable it is.
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Mar 2, 2017 22:33
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I'm sensing a pattern here...
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Mar 3, 2017 01:41
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Further confirmation that Steve Bannon is the most dangerous man in the world... and up really is down.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/02/us/politics/climate-change-trump.html
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Mar 3, 2017 04:37
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Geriatric man believes in reefer madness, has brain damage.
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Mar 3, 2017 05:23
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Was there really any doubt that nearly every congressional republican has made themselves complicit?
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Mar 3, 2017 05:32
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i bet he chose it because he thinks it makes him look tough or something
This is exactly why he did it.
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Mar 3, 2017 22:12
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https://twitter.com/ABC/status/837792207562244096
So here are some ideas --
Boring Outcome: Trump is a retard braggart and forgets all about this after jacking off all weekend long at Mar a lago.
Comedic Outcome: Initiates an investigation, dick-all comes of it.
Not-so-comedic Outcome: jails every single member of the Democratic party at the federal level and kicks off Civil War 2: Nuclear Boogaloo.
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Mar 4, 2017 00:02
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Donnie likes American battleships so much he wants to scrap the loving poo poo out of them.
http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/03/02/trump-military-build-up-threatens-to-cut-u-s-coast-guard-budget-cuts-department-of-homeland-security/
quote:Trump’s Military Buildup Threatens to Gut U.S. Coast Guard
While U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday touted a dramatic buildup of the U.S. military aboard the Navy’s newest carrier, the USS Gerald Ford, his government quietly unveiled plans to gut the the U.S. Coast Guard.
The Office of Management and Budget is targeting roughly 10 percent budget cuts for the tiny and always cash-strapped military branch. One Republican lawmaker now warns those cuts could cripple the under-resourced and overstretched Coast Guard’s efforts to protect 95,000 miles of American coastline and U.S. interests abroad, playing an especially big role in interdicting drug smugglers.
Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.), member of the House Armed Services Committee, railed at Trump’s budget plans.
“It’s nonsensical to pursue a policy of rebuilding the Armed Forces while proposing large reductions to the U.S. Coast Guard budget,” he wrote in a letter to the president Thursday. Cutting the Coast Guard’s budget would “serve to the detriment of U.S. national security and create exposures that will most certainly be exploited by transnational criminal networks and other dangerous actors,” he wrote.
The $1.3 billion cut to the U.S. Coast Guard in fiscal year 2018 includes a directive to scrap the building of a $500 million ship, the newest National Security Cutter (NSC).
There’s just one problem: The ship’s production is already underway. Shipbuilding company Huntington Ingalls announced it would build the latest cutter, the Coast Guard’s ninth, on Dec. 30. And now it, and its shipbuilding yard in Pascagoula, Mississippi, are adrift as the OMB directive came without warning.
“The impact of OMB’s direction to the Coast Guard is unknown at this time. We have already purchased long lead materials and have begun pre-production,” a spokesperson for Huntington Ingalls told Foreign Policy.
The Coast Guard is part of the Department of Homeland Security, but it’s still the fifth branch of the military.
Though it’s the smallest of the military branches, the Coast Guard punches above its weight, particularly on issues of importance to the Trump administration including illegal immigration, protecting U.S. borders, and drug interdiction. (For example, the Coast Guard seized 144.8 metric tons of cocaine in 2015 alone.) It guards the entire American coastline with a total force of 56,000 — just over the size of the New York City police force.
“We will continue to work with the administration to ensure that Coast Guard funding requirements are fully understood,” Lt. Cmdr. Dave French, a spokesperson for the Coast Guard, told FP. French declined to comment further on the proposed cuts, saying the Coast Guard was too early in the budget planning process to offer anything further.
And the Coast Guard has for years been trying to carry out its mission with aging equipment, making any budget cuts even more painful.
“The big Coast Guard challenge over the last 15-20 years is it’s been essentially operating with legacy ships that are 40, 50, 60 years old,” one congressional staffer familiar with the issue told Foreign Policy.
The new cutter in the crosshairs is part of a new flotilla meant to replace cutters that have been in use since the 1960s. “The acquisition of the NSC is vital to performing DHS missions in the far-offshore regions, including the harsh operating environment of the Pacific Ocean, Bering Sea and Arctic,” Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Paul Zukunft said in a statement.
For patrolling both the North and the South Poles, the U.S. Coast Guard has one heavy icebreaker, commissioned in 1976, and one medium icebreaker commissioned in 2000. Russia, by comparison, has 40, with 11 more in development. The Coast Guard is counting on getting more money — not less — to build a replacement for the nearly mothballed Polar Star.
“The highways of the Arctic are icebreakers,” Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) said in January. “Russia has superhighways, and we have dirt roads with potholes.”
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DHS is suggesting separating women and children at the border.
These people are loving sick
This is not an exaggeration.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-children-idUSKBN16A2ES?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=Social
quote:WASHINGTON Women and children crossing together illegally into the United States could be separated by U.S. authorities under a proposal being considered by the Department of Homeland Security, according to three government officials.
Part of the reason for the proposal is to deter mothers from migrating to the United States with their children, said the officials, who have been briefed on the proposal.
The policy shift would allow the government to keep parents in custody while they contest deportation or wait for asylum hearings. Children would be put into protective custody with the Department of Health and Human Services, in the "least restrictive setting" until they can be taken into the care of a U.S. relative or state-sponsored guardian.
Currently, families contesting deportation or applying for asylum are generally released from detention quickly and allowed to remain in the United States until their cases are resolved. A federal appeals court ruling bars prolonged child detention.
President Donald Trump has called for ending "catch and release," in which migrants who cross illegally are freed to live in the United States while awaiting legal proceedings.
Two of the officials were briefed on the proposal at a Feb. 2 town hall for asylum officers by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services asylum chief John Lafferty.
A third DHS official said the department is actively considering separating women from their children but has not made a decision.
HHS and the White House did not respond to requests for comment.
In a statement to Reuters, DHS said: "The journey north is a dangerous one with too many situations where children - brought by parents, relatives or smugglers - are often exploited, abused or may even lose their lives.
"With safety in mind, the Department of Homeland Security continually explores options that may discourage those from even beginning the journey," the statement said.
U.S. Representative Henry Cuellar, a Texas Democrat whose district includes about 200 miles (320 km) of the border with Mexico, slammed the proposal. "Bottom line: separating mothers and children is wrong," he said in a statement.
"That type of thing is where we depart from border security and get into violating human rights," he said.
About 54,000 children and their guardians were apprehended between Oct. 1, 2016, and Jan. 31, 2017, more than double the number caught over the same time period a year earlier.
Republicans in Congress have argued women are willing to risk the dangerous journey with their children because they are assured they will be quickly released from detention and given court dates set years into the future.
Immigrant rights advocates have argued that Central America's violent and impoverished conditions force mothers to immigrate to the United States and that they should be given asylum status. (Graphic: tmsnrt.rs/2m4aPAs)
LEGAL CONSIDERATIONS
Implementing the new policy proposal "could create lifelong psychological trauma," said Marielena Hincapie, executive director at the National Immigration Law Center. "Especially for children that have just completed a perilous journey from Central America."
Hincapie said the U.S. government is likely to face legal challenges based on immigration and family law if they decide to implement the policy.
The policy would allow DHS to detain parents while complying with a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals order from July 2016 that immigrant children should be released from detention as quickly as possible. That order said their parents were not required to be freed.
To comply with that order, the Obama administration implemented a policy of holding women and children at family detention centers for no more than 21 days before releasing them.
Holding mothers in prolonged detention could also strain government resources, said Randy Capps of the Migration Policy Institute, a Washington-based non-profit.
“You are talking about a pretty rapid increase in the detention population if you are going to do this," Capps said. "The question is really how much detention can they afford."
Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly last week ordered immigration agents to deport or criminally prosecute parents who facilitate the illegal smuggling of their children.
Many parents who arrive on the U.S.-Mexico border with their children have paid smugglers to guide them across the dangerous terrain.
It is one of the most outright evil policy proposals I have ever seen. The fact DHS is trying to feign humanitarian interest is grotesque.
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quote:Promising to modernize a Treasury unit that many conservatives have threatened to abolish, Mr. Mnuchin said he was certain that Mr. Trump understood the concept of “we add people, we make money.” Investing in the I.R.S., Mr. Mnuchin suggested, was a smart move because the agency’s work ultimately paid for itself through the revenue that it brought in.
The only thing dumber than Trump are the hires who think he'll do anything sensible or rational.
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Mar 4, 2017 03:33
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Edit: I'll piss on your corpse for this, Marx!
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Mar 5, 2017 03:59
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As far I'm aware there is no proof his phones were tapped
Clapper, as a matter of fact, was on with Chuck Jones earlier and denied the Trump Tower wiretapping. Not exactly a gold standard, and it's not like it'll stop Trump's babby brains from sticking his dick into a blender.
Conservative media has become a living, breathing Ouroboros. The only question now is what happens when it finally reaches the point of fully eating itself.
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Mar 5, 2017 17:37
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I was looking for this article, so thank you for that. Everything in there is generally quite terrifying, but this caught my eye:
quote:In two meetings of Mr. Trump’s national security deputies in the Situation Room, the most recent on Tuesday, all those options were discussed, along with the possibility of reintroducing nuclear weapons to South Korea as a dramatic warning.
Surely nothing can go wrong with... this...
God drat it all.
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Mar 5, 2017 18:50
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I guess Master Levin is canon, after all.
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Mar 5, 2017 21:02
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What are the odds he attempts to fabricate evidence?
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Mar 5, 2017 21:37
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https://twitter.com/mikiebarb/status/838502630452248576
Assuming Comey has been acting purely in the interest of the Trump faction (and the Russian intermediaries involved therein), it would be the most stunning flavor of schadenfreude I can think of if Trump were to try and brute force his way past the director and somehow manage to sabotage himself in the process.
On the other hand, 'lol'.
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Mar 5, 2017 22:41
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With how caught up he is trying to investigate the rest of the government, I can almost see Trump ignoring this development.
So here's the real question: is this the worst case scenario, or the best?
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Mar 6, 2017 01:04
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Never expect a genuine showing of ethics, morality, or otherwise redeeming human features from congressional republicans. Ever.
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Mar 6, 2017 23:04
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His views with respect to the 'War on Terror' are... well, I wouldn't call it 'forever war', but it sounds an awful lot like forever war.
Edit: That interview is almost word for word the exact same line of justification used in leaks on the proposed policy. Christ, Wolf, you're a wimpy poo poo and all but at least try to call genocide when it's voiced on open air.
ded redd fucked around with this message at 23:38 on Mar 6, 2017
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Mar 6, 2017 23:35
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So if you were curious as to whether the AHCA has a chance of passing:
https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/838908081643859968
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Mar 7, 2017 01:52
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https://twitter.com/ericgeller/status/838925285147951104
Nothing to see here.
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Mar 7, 2017 04:55
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39% say repeal, and that same 39% say repeal and replace. Am I to interpret this 39% as unwilling to distinguish any importance between these two positions?
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Mar 7, 2017 19:32
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Hell of a gap with the numbers on Russian policy. Hardly surprising, but at least it's not in the 40's like the rest of those no's.
Anyway it hardly matters when congressional republicans have trapped themselves inside of a manufactured reality more even more insane and nonsensical than the one they fostered for their base.
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Mar 8, 2017 19:11
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what's the press conference about, wasn't there one just yesterday?
Yeah, but Price stole his thunder; Spicer has to go full on Emeril Lagasse today.
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Mar 8, 2017 19:26
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A while back I raised the possibility that Breitbart would turn on its former boss. Well:
https://twitter.com/oliverdarcy/status/839576007120158720
https://twitter.com/oliverdarcy/status/839577255340834817
https://twitter.com/oliverdarcy/status/839578848773693440
I don't know if I'm completely right yet, but I'm feeling pretty right.
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https://twitter.com/ChadSDay/status/839584565572300805
I mean, no duh, but still...
quote:WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, who was fired from the White House last month, has registered as a foreign agent with the Justice Department for work that may have aided the Turkish government in exchange for $530,000.
Flynn's lawyer said in paperwork that he was voluntarily registering for work that "could be construed to have principally benefited the Republic of Turkey."
Flynn's consulting firm, Flynn Intel Group Inc., previously disclosed to Congress its work for a company owned by a Turkish businessman. But it had not filed with the Justice Department, which requires more extensive transparency. The new filings show Flynn's firm was paid $530,000.
Trump fired Flynn last month for misleading key administration officials about his contacts with Russia's ambassador to the U.S.
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