"The butt of global jokes": who might this be? (Talk Trump)

[Seabass]

Trump clashes with Trump administration's "alarmist" report on climate change. Trump wants great climate!

U.S. Climate Report Warns of Damaged Environment and Shrinking Economy
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/23/clim ... eport.html

[Animavore]

More Trump stupidity.

The culprit turned out to be E. coli, a powerful pathogen that had contaminated romaine lettuce grown in Yuma, Arizona, and distributed nationwide. At least 210 people in 36 states were sickened. Five died and 27 suffered kidney failure. The same strain of E. coli that sickened them was detected in a Yuma canal used to irrigate some crops.

For more than a decade, it’s been clear that there’s a gaping hole in American food safety: Growers aren’t required to test their irrigation water for pathogens such as E. coli. As a result, contaminated water can end up on fruits and vegetables.

After several high-profile disease outbreaks linked to food, Congress in 2011 ordered a fix, and produce growers this year would have begun testing their water under rules crafted by the Obama administration’s Food and Drug Administration.

But six months before people were sickened by the contaminated romaine, President Donald Trump’s FDA – responding to pressure from the farm industry and Trump’s order to eliminate regulations – shelved the water-testing rules for at least four years.

https://www.wired.com/story/the-science ... A1dnay2wk8

[Tero]

Why do republicans always want to bankrupt us?
1 cut taxes
2 build weapons
3 fund it using social program money
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/ ... ons-966502

[JimC]

The environment is full of lefty liberals! SAD!

[DRSB]

Or maybe dumber? Trump himself has reduced the message to so short a tweet even whites without college can understand them.
Hillary:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/ ... ump-threat

This is why he has 66 mln twitter followers.

[Scot Dutchy]

Dems on the attack:

Trump at bay: failure looms as Democrats load 'subpoena cannon'

In his Florida fortress, facing a blizzard of investigations, the president acts like a man backed into a corner

[Tero]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/th ... story.html
The Latest: US agents shoot tear gas at migrants
U.S. agents shot the gas, according to an Associated Press reporter on the scene. Children were screaming and coughing in the mayhem.
Twitter: Ana Zuniga, 23, from Honduras cradled 3-year old daughter with red burning eyes. “We ran but when you run the smoke smothers you more.” Said US agents began launching gas when migrants opened small hole in concertina wire at bottom of Tijuana River. She didn’t see anyone get thru.
Illegal crossings are at a record low:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartande ... ecord-low/.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/20/us/p ... ning-.html
This times article links directly to Border Patrol statistics. The rate of arrests (typically used as a proxy for illegal border crossings) has been on a decline for aabout the last 10 years.

[Tero]

More on the gassing
https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5bfb ... ba24a5/amp

[Animavore]

Well. Fucking. Said.

[L'Emmerdeur]

The bogus line about $110 billion in arms sales to Saudi Arabia that Trump has repeatedly blithered as he attempts to justify giving a pass to the murderous Saudi regime appears to have been a product of his son-in-law's wet dreams.

'Jared Kushner pushed to inflate Saudi arms deal to $110 billion: Sources'

President Donald Trump's reluctance to hold Saudi leadership accountable for the brutal murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi stemmed from a partly aspirational $110 billion arms deal between the U.S. and Saudia Arabia that was inflated at the direction of Trump's son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner, according to two U.S. officials and three former White House officials.

[Brian Peacock]

There's nothing illegal about pulling figures from your rectum. 84% of Democrats do it at least 12 times a day.

[Scot Dutchy]

Maybe Trump and his family are thinking of moving to Saudi Arabia to set up the Trump dynasty?

[Brian Peacock]

Hmm. He doesn't drink alcohol and he always has is wife walk three paces behind him - you might be on to something.

[Scot Dutchy]

He would be very suited to the Saudi world. Men have all the power even though they are idiots. Wife flogging is allowed as well.

[Tero]

Whether Trump gives gift to himself of GM or Big Coal, no guarantees:
This year, General Motors received a $514 million tax break as a result of Trump’s tax giveaway to the wealthy. But instead of using that money to raise wages, increase benefits or add more jobs it is doing the exact opposite. Today, GM announced that it would be laying off nearly 15,000 workers and close plants in Michigan, Ohio and Maryland to “increase the long-term profit and cash generation" of the company. That is outrageous. Let’s be clear. GM is not a poor company. It is not going broke. So far this year, GM has made a profit of $6 billion and had enough money to spend $100 million on stock buybacks to enrich its wealthy shareholders. Last year, it gave its CEO a $22 million compensation package – 295 times more than the average GM worker makes. Under Trump, it has also received $600 million in lucrative federal contracts
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