In May, Trump implied that Gonzalo Curiel, the federal judge presiding over a class action against the for-profit Trump University, could not fairly hear the case because of his Mexican heritage.
“He’s a Mexican,” Trump told CNN of Curiel. “We’re building a wall between here and Mexico. The answer is, he is giving us very unfair rulings — rulings that people can’t even believe.”
Curiel, it should be noted, is an American citizen who was born in Indiana. And as a prosecutor in the late 1990s, he went after Mexican drug cartels, making him a target for assassination by a Tijuana drug lord.
Even members of Trump’s own party slammed the racist remarks.
“Claiming a person can’t do their job because of their race is sort of like the textbook definition of a racist comment,” House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said in a reaction to Trump’s comments, though he clarified that he still endorses the nominee.
The comments against Curiel didn’t sit well with the American public either. According to a YouGov poll released in June, 51 percent of those surveyed agreed that Trump’s comments were not only wrong, but also racist.Fifty-seven percent of Americans think Trump was wrong to complain against the judge, while just 20 percent think he was right to do so.
When asked whether he would trust a Muslim judge, in light of his proposed restrictions on Muslim immigration, Trump suggested that such a judge might not be fair to him either.
So tell me why you repeatedly whitewash Trump's over 7500 documented lies, probably more in toto than all the other presidents since 1900? And why you whitewash his admitted sexual predation? And why you whitewash his adamant denials the neither he nor anyone in his administration had any contacts with Russia?
He is, after all the president we are currently victimized by, not Clinton.
And while you're at it, tell me why you think NASA and NOAA, the folks that took us to the moon and back, would be putting out fake news that the four hottest year on record, well above the 20th century average, have been the last four? And why, as the data continue to mount, they keep saying climate change is real and human-caused and you keepcalling it fake with no evidence to back you up? https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/2018-was-fourth-hottest-year-record-nasa-says-ncna967306
So tell me why you repeatedly whitewash Trump's over 7500 documented lies,
I don't.
I do think it is possible that a large number of his supposed lies are not actually lies, but I'm not interested enough to actually do research and find out.
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probably more in toto than all the other presidents since 1900?
Hardly a reasonable comparison when leftists whitewash the lies of previous presidents.
MontereyJack wrote:
And why you whitewash his admitted sexual predation?
No such predation.
MontereyJack wrote:
And why you whitewash his adamant denials the neither he nor anyone in his administration had any contacts with Russia?
I presume you mean during the campaign.
There is no reason to think that he had any contacts with Russia during the campaign.
Perhaps Manafort did. I don't know.
MontereyJack wrote:
And while you're at it, tell me why you think NASA and NOAA, the folks that took us to the moon and back, would be putting out fake news that the four hottest year on record, well above the 20th century average, have been the last four?
I have not speculated as to why they deliberately taint their data.
Does it even matter why they do it? The problem isn't why they do it, the problem is that they do it.
MontereyJack wrote:
And why, as the data continue to mount, they keep saying climate change is real and human-caused and you keepcalling it fake with no evidence to back you up?
I gave you four independent and reliable sources to back it up.
US President Donald Trump has said territory held by the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq could be "100%" liberated as early as next week.
"It should be announced, probably some time next week, that we will have 100% of the caliphate," he told a gathering of coalition partners.
However, he also cautioned that he wanted to "wait for the official word".
US military and intelligence officials say IS could stage a comeback without sustained counter-terrorism pressure.
Mr Trump shocked coalition allies in December when he declared that the group had been defeated, amid reports he wanted to pull out US soldiers within 30 days.
But he later slowed the withdrawal after several resignations from key defence officials and strong criticism from Republicans and allies abroad.
The global coalition against IS, now numbering nearly 80 nations, was formed in 2014 after the group overran swathes of territory and went on to launch terror attacks outside the region.
Every few years, I do a re-read of Politics and the English Language. Surely one of the finest essays I've ever bumped into.
This is in the news today.
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It seems even the best of writers get rejected - but not all of them can expect an apology 70 years later.
The British Council has apologised to George Orwell after rejecting an essay of his seven decades ago.
The author of 1984 and Animal Farm wrote the piece, entitled In Defence of English Cooking, in 1946.
But the council, which promotes British relations with other countries, told Orwell it would be "unwise to publish it for the continental reader".
The editor acknowledges it is an "excellent" essay, but "with one or two minor criticisms" - including that Orwell's recipe for orange marmalade contained "too much sugar and water".
In the essay, later published in the Evening Standard, Orwell describes the British diet as "a simple, rather heavy, perhaps slightly barbarous diet" and where "hot drinks are acceptable at most hours of the day".
Alasdair Donaldson, British Council senior policy analyst, said: "It seems that the organisation in those days was somewhat po-faced and risk-averse, and was anxious to avoid producing an essay about food (even one which mentions the disastrous effects of wartime rationing) in the aftermath of the hungry winter of 1945."
He added: "Over 70 years later, the British Council is delighted to make amends for its slight on perhaps the UK's greatest political writer of the 20th Century, by re-producing the original essay in full - along with the unfortunate rejection letter."
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I'm guessing this dumb-**** xenophobe really really really does not like his Pope very much.
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Consumer Protection Bureau Aims To Roll Back Rule For Payday Lending
February 6, 20192:23 PM ET
DANIELLA CHESLOW
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is targeting one of the hallmarks of the Obama administration: a rule that would protect the most vulnerable borrowers from the ballooning debt that can accrue with payday loans.
The rule never actually took effect. And now the consumer protection bureau is proposing to take it off the table.
The agency's chief, Kathy Kraninger, said in a statement that pulling back the rule would encourage competition in the payday lending industry and help improve credit options for borrowers in need.
Critics say the consumer protection bureau is siding with the very industry it is supposed to regulate and is scrapping a rule that would have protected borrowers from skyrocketing interest rates.
The way payday loans work is that payday lenders typically offer small loans to borrowers who promise to pay the loans back by their next paycheck. Interest on the loans can have an annual percentage rate of 390 percent or more, according to a 2013 report by the CFPB. Another bureau report from the following year found that most payday loans — as many as 80 percent — are rolled over into another loan within two weeks. Borrowers often take out eight or more loans a year.
A rule cracking down on payday loans was first proposed in 2016. President Obama touted the rule as the end of predatory lending. He warned payday lenders in a speech: "If you're making that profit by trapping hardworking Americans into a vicious cycle of debt, you've got to find a new business model."
The rule would have required lenders to determine whether customers could pay off their loans. It would also limit payday lenders to only two attempts to withdraw money from borrowers' accounts, a move designed to target the fees that payday lenders charge.
Under the Trump administration, the consumer protection bureau reversed course. The rule was supposed to kick in back in January 2018 — but it never did. Instead, then-CFPB Director Mick Mulvaney delayed the rule.
On Wednesday, bureau officials said they plan to nix the part of the rule that requires payday lenders to check borrowers' ability to pay. And they plan to delay the rest of the rule until 2020.
A senior CFPB official said the bureau's decision stems from a concern that there is not enough evidence showing that payday lending is unfair and abusive enough to necessitate the rule. Also, the official, who spoke to journalists on condition of anonymity, said that if the rule had kicked in, some two-thirds of borrowers wouldn't qualify for a payday loan.
Consumer advocates say the move hurts borrowers.
"The people in power have chosen to side with payday lenders over consumers," said Kyle Herrig, senior adviser to the consumer advocacy group Allied Progress.
Herrig said the payday rule under discussion was written after five years of research that included examining millions of loan records.
"That research concluded the ability-to-repay standard was critical to protecting consumers from falling into the debt trap," Herrig said.
Advocacy groups said removing the protections will leave minority communities particularly at risk.
"With little accountability for their actions, payday lenders have long preyed upon communities of color and drained them of their hard-earned savings," Hilary Shelton, NAACP Washington bureau director, said in a statement. "We strongly urge Kathy Kraninger to reconsider her decision to weaken the payday lending rule and allow it to move forward as planned without delay."
Marisabel Torres, senior policy analyst at UnidosUS, said her advocacy group and "thousands of Latinos" joined a national campaign calling for a strong payday lending rule.
The CFPB was created to protect consumers from losses like those suffered in the Great Recession. Its first director, Richard Cordray, took aggressive steps to regulate banks and other financial institutions.
Republicans accused Cordray of wielding too much power. President Trump's first pick to head the agency, Mulvaney, had called it a "sick, sad joke" and as a congressman proposed a bill to abolish it. Mulvaney had accepted campaign donations from payday lenders, and NPR has reported that under his leadership, the agency loosened its oversight of the industry.
Payday lenders including Select Management Resources, Advance America and Check Into Cash Inc. have also donated substantially to Trump's inaugural committee. The industry's trade group, the Community Financial Services Association of America, held its annual conference at Trump National Doral Golf Club near Miami in August 2018.
Critics say the consumer protection bureau is siding with the very industry it is supposed to regulate
Appointees in the Trump administration behaving in this manner?! Impossible! Slander!
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Climate change is the overlooked driver of Central American migration
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“Migration stories are always complex,” Sutter says. “It's not untrue that violence is driving people out; it’s not untrue that poverty is driving people out. But it is also true that climate change and severe drought are causing people to move from Central America, and from other [regions]. And I think that we have to look at that in a clear-eyed way and think about what that means.”
