The suzerain Trump

[Svartalf]

Looks like he's suffering from the God syndrome

[Hermit]

What was driving recruitment for the last 8 years?

The blanket approach - namely regarding all Muslims as if they were terrorists.

Now they're getting more of the same with Trump's decree, only more broadly and systematically so.

[Tero]

You guys have 2 years to fix it or lose your seat. You will go down with Trump.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01KGFW01U/ref=cm_cd_asin_lnk
Or was it
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/r ... lls-234651

[Hermit]

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.

[pErvinalia]

Oh for the love of all that is....

she was referring to the Bowling Green Terrorists and misspoke. She's clarified that. Two Iraqis were arrested in Bowling Green for arms-related charges and other terrorism related charges. One of them is serving life in prison. She's already clarified her statement.

God damn ,there is no end to this ridiculous hysteria ....

How do you 'misspeak' by calling zero deaths a "massacre'? That's more than misspeaking. That's a failure of the synapses.

[cronus]

In Romania, the poorest of countries putting the US to shame, they are in full storming the capital mode.

https://theintercept.com/2017/01/31/sec ... en-powers/

[pErvinalia]

An examination of the harm a Trump presidency could do to the current balance of power in the world:

"An insurgent in the White House"

Without active American support and participation, the machinery of global co-operation could well fail. The World Trade Organisation would not be worthy of the name. The UN would fall into disuse. Countless treaties and conventions would be undermined. Although each one stands alone, together they form a system that binds America to its allies and projects its power across the world. Because habits of co-operation that were decades in the making cannot easily be put back together again, the harm would be lasting. In the spiral of distrust and recrimination, countries that are dissatisfied with the world will be tempted to change it—if necessary by force.

[. . .]

If Mr Trump truly wants to put America First, his priority should be strengthening ties, not treating allies with contempt.

[. . .]

A web of bilateralism and a jerry-rigged regionalism are palpably worse for America than the world Mr Trump inherited. It is not too late for him to conclude how much worse, to ditch his bomb-throwers and switch course. The world should hope for that outcome. But it must prepare for trouble.

The UN is largely useless now, thanks largely to the US treating it with disdain. And the WTO is hardly an organisation to be trumpeting (excuse the phrase).

[pErvinalia]

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[Tero]

Melissa McCarthy LOl
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/melissa ... nference/P

[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 pount 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.

[NineBerry]

[Tero]

Asshole tries to slap judges around because he is POTUS

But Trump’s denunciation of Robart was more personal and direct. Vice President Pence defended the president’s words in an interview with George Stephanopoulos that will air on ABC’s “This Week.”

“I think the American people are very accustomed to this president speaking his mind and speaking very straight with them,” Pence said.

He agreed with Stephanopoulos that Robart had the authority for his ruling and said “we’ll go through the process in the courts to get a stay of that order, so that, again, we can implement this action that is entirely focused on the safety and security of the American people.”

Other Republican leaders were mute, on both the decision and Trump’s language, and some in the GOP were unsettled by it.

“My advice to POTUS — attack the decision (it’s weak) not the judge,” Rep. Raúl R. Labrador (R-Idaho), who had backed Trump’s immigration order, wrote on Twitter. “Liberals are imploding, don’t make personal attacks the story.”

Democrats were not shy. “The president’s attack . . . shows a disdain for an independent judiciary that doesn’t always bend to his wishes and a continued lack of respect for the Constitution,” Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) said in a statement.

Leahy said Trump “seems intent on precipitating a constitutional crisis.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics ... 31c8641829

[cronus]

Distracting you all whilst he's organising ragnorak.

[Tero]

Go ahead Trump, try and stop this judge.
http://www.ksl.com/?sid=43065590&nid=14 ... -male-team

[Tero]

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.