We Need To Talk About Donald

[Animavore]

I mean in your sig.

[pErvinalia]

Yeah he did. He's a piece of work, isn't he?

[Brian Peacock]

Do you remember those Trump extremists posting pictures of Cheeto-dick holding up a rainbow flag and saying this was evidence he's for LGBT rights.

http://www.gq.com/story/trump-lgbt-executive-orders

Ow! Lied to again. You fucking gullible twats.

Yeah, during his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention Trump said, "As your president I will do everything in my power to protect our LGBTQ citizens from the violence and oppression of a foreign, hateful ideology... believe me... (cheers) ...and I have to say, as a Republican, it is so nice to hear you cheering for what I just said... thank you... thank you."

On Jan 31 this year Sean Spicer quelled rumours that the president was going to overturn the standing order, saying, "President Donald J. Trump is determined to protect the rights of all Americans, including the LGBTQ community. President Trump continues to be respectful and supportive of LGBTQ rights, just as he was throughout the election. The president is proud to have been the first ever GOP nominee to mention the LGBTQ community in his nomination acceptance speech, pledging then to protect the community from violence and oppression. The executive order signed in 2014, which protects employees from anti-LGBTQ workplace discrimination while working for federal contractors, will remain intact at the direction of President Donald J. Trump."

And then...

Presidential Executive Order on the Revocation of Federal Contracting Executive Orders: March 27, 2017


Section 1. Revocation. Executive Order 13673 of July 31, 2014, section 3 of Executive Order 13683 of December 11, 2014, and Executive Order 13738 of August 23, 2016, are revoked.

Sec. 2. Reconsideration of Existing Rules. All executive departments and agencies shall, as appropriate and to the extent consistent with law, consider promptly rescinding any orders, rules, regulations, guidance, guidelines, or policies implementing or enforcing the revoked Executive Orders and revoked provision listed in section 1 of this order.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-of ... -executive

[Tero]

Trump lectures women on Anthony. She was courageous. So courageous. She was terrific.

“Since the very beginning, women have driven, and I mean, each generation of Americans, towards a more free and more prosperous future,” Trump said. “These patriots are women like the legendary Abigail Adams, right? Who, during the founding, urged her husband to remember the rights of women. She was very much a pioneer in that way. We’ve been blessed with courageous heroes like Harriet Tubman who escaped slavery. And went on to deliver hundreds of others to freedom, first in the underground railroad and then as a spy for the union army. She was very, very courageous, believe me. Around we’ve had leaders like Susan B. Anthony. Have you heard of Susan B. Anthony? I’m shocked that you’ve heard of her — who dreamed of a much more fair and equal future and an America where women themselves as she said helped to make laws and elect the lawmakers, and that’s what’s happening more and more.”

[Tero]

Trump says 'We must fight' hard-line conservative Freedom Caucus in 2018 midterm elections

Done Vote Democrat.

[Brian Peacock]

Sam Harris : The Russia Connection (with Anne Applebaum)

Predominantly talking about the 'open secret' of Paul Manafort's connection with Putin, Trump's business connections with the Russian Kleptocracy, and the international manipulation of FAKE NEWS!!.

[Tero]

Government runs out of $ Apr 28. I have a plan. We take Trump's American Express card. We use that until he spits out the truth on Russia.

[Brian Peacock]

The Freedom Caucus will hurt the entire Republican agenda if they don't get on the team, & fast. We must fight them, & Dems, in 2018!

(everyone's drinking water, except the president who has a rum and coke)

The rich white guys that comprise the 32-person strong Freedom Caucus all hold safe Republican seats. None of them have ever been challenged by moderate Republicans in primaries - their only real challenger have come from candidates even further to the right than they are - so they ain't going nowhere. Trumpcare failed because 24 so-called moderate Republicans from purple districts figured out that removing a total of 14 million Americans form health coverage would probably get them slapped in the face by the Democrats at election time.

[Brian Peacock]

Trump’s lawyers go after 17-year-old girl’s cat website

IN AN effort to practise her coding, a 17-year-old girl from San Francisco designed a silly website about kittens. The online world is filled to the brim with content about cats, so it seemed like a harmless and inconsequential exercise, right?

Well evidently US president Donald Trump disagrees.

Lucy is the young girl behind the website called kittenfeed.com but despite its modest traffic, it has attracted the ire of her commander in chief.

That’s because the only thing the website offered visitors was the ability to virtually scratch at photos of Mr Trump’s head using the paws of a kitten.

The teenager built the website in February for a laugh while applying for web developer jobs, she said. It was originally called trumpscratch.com but a few weeks ago she received a cease and desist letter from The Trump Organisation, according to Observer which claims to have seen the letter.

The document informed Lucy that her website infringed on the “internationally known and famous” Trump trademark.



But even the name change to kittenfeed.com has not been sufficient to appease Mr Trump’s lawyers and Lucy has reportedly been sent a second threatening letter because the site harboured a link that took users to an Amazon page where they could buy an anti-Trump T-shirt.

Lucy — like many others on social media since the story broke — has been left bewildered by the actions of the Trump Organisation.

“I really just want people to be aware that this is a president who’s clearly more concerned about what people think of him than doing things of substance,” she told Hollywood Reporter.

“The fact that as president he still has teams going around bothering to shut down silly sites like mine is outrageous.”

The so-called leader of the free world has a lot of issues to deal with — a nuclear North Korea, controversial national healthcare reform, an FBI investigation into his team’s ties with Russia, climate change and an increasingly emboldened China, just to name a few.

But his team has clearly still found time to sweat the small stuff.

“Literally all my site is, is punching him with kitten paws. A president should not have the time or care to hire people to shut sites like mine down,” Lucy said.

She has complied with the requests of the letters but has taken a further swipe at her billionaire president by adding a new tagline to the website: “Trump seems tough at first, but he gets weaker with every scratch.”

However at the time of writing, the website has been taken down.

http://www.news.com.au/technology/onlin ... 0e418d09c0

[Hermit]

^ Did Seth really say that?

http://rationalia.com/forum/viewtopic.p ... g#p1638972

[JimC]

^ Did Seth really say that?

http://rationalia.com/forum/viewtopic.p ... g#p1638972

You have the soul of an archivist!

(which is actually a compliment...)

[JimC]

As your president I will do everything in my power to protect our LGBTQ citizens from the violence and oppression of a foreign, hateful ideology.

His sole motivation here was to maintain the rage against muslims...

[Brian Peacock]

Yeah, and notice that he didn't commit to protecting "our LGBTQ citizens from the violence and oppression of a domestic, hateful ideology."

[Animavore]

Mike Flynn Offers to Testify in Exchange for Immunity

Former national security adviser tells FBI, the House and Senate intelligence committees he’s willing to be interviewed in exchange for deal, officials say


WASHINGTON—Mike Flynn, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, has told the Federal Bureau of Investigation and congressional officials investigating the Trump campaign’s potential ties to Russia that he is willing to be interviewed in exchange for a grant of immunity from prosecution, according to officials with knowledge of the matter.

As an adviser to Mr. Trump’s presidential campaign, and later one of Mr. Trump’s top aides in the White House, Mr. Flynn was privy to some of the most sensitive foreign-policy deliberations of the new administration and was directly involved in discussions about the possible lifting of sanctions on Russia imposed by the Obama administration.

He has made the offer to the FBI and the House and Senate intelligence committees though his lawyer but has so far found no
takers, the officials said.

Continues...

[Brian Peacock]

He did nothing that Sessions didn't do. This doesn't let him off the hook, it just skewers Sessions on the same barb. Surely Sessions' position is made even more untenable by this development?