The suzerain Trump

[Svartalf]

[Tero]

Republican dirty tricks, dems dragging their heels:

Trump, though, has only four Cabinet secretaries confirmed, although several more — including attorney general nominee Jeff Sessions — are expected to clear this week.

Democrats say it's Trump's own fault for the slow pace. Democrats claim if Trump had picked better qualified candidates for these posts, the slowdown wouldn't have happened.

“They are extraordinarily fringe Cabinet nominees driving this conversation,” insisted liberal Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), a central advocate of slowing Trump’s agenda.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/s ... ons-234622

[Brian Peacock]

Sanders: Trump is a fraud

"This guy ran for president of the United States saying, 'I, Donald Trump, I'm going to take on Wall Street -- these guys are getting away with murder.' Then suddenly, he appoints all these billionaires," Sanders said.
Trump selected Steve Mnuchin, a former Goldman Sachs trader and hedge fund manager, as his treasury secretary nominee; Wilbur Ross, a billionaire former banker, to lead the Commerce Department; and Gary Cohn, a top Goldman Sachs executive, to lead his National Economic Council.
Trump begins dismantling Obama financial regulations
Sanders said Trump's Cabinet appointments and advisers directly contradict his pledge to re-institute the Glass-Steagall Act, a regulation that separated commercial and investment banks, which was repealed under Bill Clinton.
Trump signed an executive order on Friday that sets the stage for rewriting US financial regulation in an effort to encourage more lending to American businesses.
he White House also signaled a possible shake-up of the structure of financial regulators, especially the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Trump wrote that regulation must "restore public accountability," a backhand reference the CFPB, which some Republicans have painted as a rogue regulator that lacks oversight.
"He is a good showman, I will give you that -- he is a good TV guy," Sanders said of Trump. "But I think he is going to sell out the middle class, the working class, of this country."
"It is hard not to laugh to see President Trump alongside these Wall Street guys," Sanders said.

Well, they are the MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE after all.

[pErvinalia]

[JimC]

[Tero]

State dept has canceled 100 000 muslim visas. No travel ban or judge needed to block them.

[L'Emmerdeur]

"Refugees are already vigorously vetted. I know because I vetted them: A former immigration officer describes the long, grueling process of gaining refugee status in the United States."

The order bans entry for citizens of seven countries for 90 days, suspends all refugee admissions for 120 days, halves the total number of refugees allowed into the United States this year and bars refugees from Syria indefinitely. It demands “a uniform screening standard and procedure,” “questions aimed at identifying fraudulent answers and malicious intent,” “a mechanism to ensure that the applicant is who the applicant claims to be” and “a mechanism to assess whether or not the applicant has the intent to commit criminal or terrorist acts.”

Whoever wrote this order is evidently not aware that these screenings, procedures and questions already exist.

During nearly four years as an immigration officer, I conducted in-person interviews with hundreds of refugees of 20 different nationalities in 10 countries. I saw countless refugees break down crying in my interview room because of the length and severity of the vetting process. From that experience and numerous security briefings, it’s clear that the authors of Trump’s order are unfamiliar with the U.S. immigration system, U.S. laws, international law and the security threats facing our nation. I can’t speak for all refugee and asylum officers, but I can say that those who have been working in immigration for years from opposite ends of the political spectrum are appalled by these new policies.

[Animavore]

I found this site called Why Trump is Great. It goes into a lot of detail about the some of the great things coming for the US. It's quite the eye-opener.

http://whytrumpisgreat.com/

[Brian Peacock]

Very informative

[Forty Two]

Republican dirty tricks, dems dragging their heels:

Trump, though, has only four Cabinet secretaries confirmed, although several more — including attorney general nominee Jeff Sessions — are expected to clear this week.

Democrats say it's Trump's own fault for the slow pace. Democrats claim if Trump had picked better qualified candidates for these posts, the slowdown wouldn't have happened.

“They are extraordinarily fringe Cabinet nominees driving this conversation,” insisted liberal Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), a central advocate of slowing Trump’s agenda.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/s ... ons-234622

[Tero]

He just signs things without reading it:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/02 ... tings.html

[Animavore]

Best comment, "I can't wait for the SNL skit on this." A lot of delicate snowflakes in the comment section. Probably all incels.

[Forty Two]

The good thing about having a Republican President is that SNL can joke about the President again. Over the last 8 years, SNL hasn't been willing to caricature or joke much about Obama - http://nypost.com/2014/08/24/why-comedi ... ent-obama/

Good thing Trump and Spicer are female minorities, because if they were white males they'd never be treated the way they're being treated....

[Brian Peacock]

Let's have a look what countries the perpetrators (or their parents) of terrorist acts in the US come from:

The San Bernardino shooting that killed 14 people was carried out by an American-born US citizen of Pakistani descent and a lawful permanent US resident of Pakistani descent. The Orlando nightclub shooter who murdered 49 people was an American-born US citizen of Afghan descent. The Boston marathon bombers, who identified as ethnic Chechen, came to the US from Kyrgyzstan and grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, before carrying out attacks that left three dead. The militant who killed four Marines during a shooting spree in Tennessee was a Kuwaiti-born US citizen whose parents were Palestinian and Jordanian.

Faisal Shahzad, the attempted Times Square bomber, was Pakistani-American. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the infamous “underwear bomber,” was Nigerian. Richard Reid, whose 2001 attempt to blow up an airplane with explosives hidden in his shoes is the reason we still have to stand barefoot in the TSA line more than 15 years later, was born in the UK to a white English mother and a mixed-race Jamaican immigrant father. Nidal Hasan, who killed 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009, was born in Virginia to Palestinian parents.

And the 9/11 hijackers? Fifteen were from Saudi Arabia, two were from the United Arab Emirates, one was from Lebanon, and one was Egyptian.

Makes sense then that Trump decrees that visa applicants from the following countries will come under special scrutiny: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. Trump sure has a nouse for discovering the very sources of the problem, and hitting them hard and effectively.

I put this point earlier, but it was rebuffed in the same manner that treacle rebuffs a pea.

I'm still waiting to discover how admitting child refugees fleeing a war zone actually threatens the American people.

Still waiting 42. Also, are you prepared to admit that the Syrian refugee program has been suspended indefinitely, not for 120 days as you suggested, and that it will be rebooted if-and-only on the whim of the prez?

[Tero]

60 000"terrorists" Trump left in their camps now struggling
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/201 ... travel-ban