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LOLGOP ‏@LOLGOP 1h1 hour ago
We'll soon learn if CPAC believe that having sex with kids is more disgusting than insuring them.

President Donald Trump should be given a chance to prove himself, Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe says.

He went on to express his support for Mr Trump's America-first policy, saying "America for Americans" and "Zimbabwe for Zimbabweans".

It is unusual for the veteran head of state to publicly back any US president.

The US imposed sanctions such as travel bans and an assets freeze on Mr Mugabe and his allies in 2001.

The sanctions were imposed over allegations of human rights abuses and election rigging.

What we're seeing is the greatest power grab in American history -- a full-scale coup aimed at controlling what is truth, and what is fiction. Trump and his Oval Office crew are seeing the unchallenged right to create "alternative facts," to set the terms of what is true without regard to any sense of objective reality and especially without regard to "the very, very dishonest media." And the ability to manufacture reality is the essence of totalitarianism.

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1/2: One of the most under-examined aspects of Trump is his involvement w/ street-level mobsters like Felix Sater:

Terrible! Trump's three flight to Mar-a-Lago only costed $10 million of taxpayer money.

Trump’s three Mar-a-Lago trips since the inauguration have probably cost the federal treasury about $10 million, based on figures used in an October government report analyzing White House travel, including money for Coast Guard units to patrol the exposed shoreline and other military, security and staffing expenses associated with moving the apparatus of the presidency.

Palm Beach County officials plan to ask Washington to reimburse tens of thousands of dollars a day in expenses for deputies handling added security and traffic issues around the cramped Florida island whenever Trump is in town.

In New York, the city is paying $500,000 a day to guard Trump Tower, according to police officials’ estimates, an amount that could reach $183 million a year.

This month, The Post reported that Secret Service and U.S. Embassy staffers paid nearly $100,000 in hotel-room bills to support Eric Trump’s trip to promote a Trump-brand condo tower in Uruguay.

“This is an expensive way to conduct business, and the president should recognize that,” said Tom Fitton, president of the conservative group Judicial Watch, which closely tracked President Barack Obama’s family vacation costs and said that it intends to continue the effort for the Trump administration.

Three suspected neo-Nazis were arrested in January after a Gothenburg Asylum centre became the target of a homemade bomb attack, leaving one person seriously injured.

Security services said all three suspects had previously been members of the Nordic Resistance Movement (NMR), a group that openly promotes racist and anti-Semitic views and has vocally opposed non-white immigration to the country.

Fair bit of coverage on this. Here's one
https://www.aol.com/article/finance/2017/02/15/trump-s-third-consecutive-mar-a-lago-weekend-could-cost-taxpayer/21714609/
Also the Independent and Politico.

According to Politico, each trip's estimated $3 million price tag is based on a similar four-day trip that Obama took in February 2013.

This is a problem for small-government, fiscal conservatives. A runaway government addicted to spending, with deficits and debt all around, is taking on another massive cost both at the local and the federal level. The sad part is that conservatives who frequently got on to Barack Obama for that Hawaii vacation (and every other vacations) will say nothing about this cost, which far exceeds the Obamas.

Fitton is right that all this is a known quantity to Donald Trump. He knows what these things cost, and yet he is determined to spend a lot of time in the “Winter White House” at Mar-a-Lago, as well as New York, and he knows his family’s lifestyle won’t get any less extravagant.

It’s unfortunate, because there will inevitably be good fiscal conservatives who will otherwise twist themselves in complex (and illegal in some states) ways just to defend it.

YA mean that the news photogs faked the pictures??

old europe wrote:

Look at that, one more anchor over at another ultra-liberal mainstream media outlet doesn't like Trump's attacks on the press:

Quote:

Fox News anchor Chris Wallace warns viewers: Trump crossed the line in latest attack on media

“But when he said that the fake news media is not my enemy, it's the enemy of the American people, I believe that crosses an important line.”

Wallace is wrong. Fake news is an enemy of the people.

The people can decide if, and when, the shoe fits.

I don't know who came up with this cutesy euphemism fake news... But we should get back to calling it exactly what it is... Yellow Journalism.



"Just two years after Pulitzer took it over, the World became the highest circulation newspaper in New York, aided in part by its strong ties to the Democratic Party. Older publishers, envious of Pulitzer's success, began criticizing the World, harping on its crime stories and stunts while ignoring its more serious reporting — trends which influenced the popular perception of yellow journalism. Charles Dana, editor of the New York Sun, attacked The World and said Pulitzer was "deficient in judgment and in staying power."

Like the pictures of the Presidential couples getting on Air Force One...