NEW YORK (AP) — Eric Trump says critics of his father are “not even people.”
President Donald Trump’s son told Fox News host Sean Hannity on Tuesday that he’s “never seen hatred like this” and “morals have flown out the window” when it comes to attacks against his father.
Eric Trump took special aim at the Democratic Party, which he says is “imploding.” He calls Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez “a total wackjob.” Trump says Democrats “have no message of their own” and are trying to obstruct “a great man” in his father and his family.
Wednesday, June 07, 2017
Real People Steal Money From Cancer Charities
So I guess I'm not a real person.
Differences
There are a lot of rules about TV in the UK - so Sky News is not like Fox - but their tabloids and, frankly, most of the rest of the print media is much worse. It's like Fox News in print run by people who actually work hard and are (some of them) smart, and also horrible and evil.
Tuesday, June 06, 2017
Oh Jeffy Jeff
Trump/Sessions rift is real. I'm told Sessions even offered to resign. Asked about that, his spokesperson declined to comment
— Jonathan Karl (@jonkarl) June 6, 2017
Meeeeeeeeeeeee
Okay then.
Trump said his vision was a wall 40 feet to 50 feet high and covered with solar panels so they'd be "beautiful structures," the people said. The President said that most walls you hear about are 14 feet or 15 feet tall but this would be nothing like those walls. Trump told the lawmakers they could talk about the solar-paneled wall as long as they said it was his idea.
Jeffy Jeff
The thing about Trump is that he turns on everybody except *maybe* family (and them, too, probably, they just stick around for a variety of reasons we can guess).
What a way for Jeffy Jeff to end his career!
WASHINGTON — Few Republicans were quicker to embrace President Trump’s campaign last year than Jeff Sessions, and his reward was one of the most prestigious jobs in America. But more than four months into his presidency, Mr. Trump has grown sour on Mr. Sessions, now his attorney general, blaming him for various troubles that have plagued the White House.
The discontent was on display on Monday in a series of stark early-morning postings on Twitter in which the president faulted his own Justice Department for its defense of his travel ban on visitors from certain predominantly Muslim countries. Mr. Trump accused Mr. Sessions’s department of devising a “politically correct” version of the ban — as if the president had nothing to do with it.
In private, the president’s exasperation has been even sharper. He has intermittently fumed for months over Mr. Sessions’s decision to recuse himself from the investigation into Russian meddling in last year’s election, according to people close to Mr. Trump who insisted on anonymity to describe internal conversations. In Mr. Trump’s view, they said, it was that recusal that eventually led to the appointment of a special counsel who took over the investigation.
What a way for Jeffy Jeff to end his career!
Missing Story
One thing that's completely missing from all discussions of Corbyn and Labour - even positive coverage of Corbyn! - is that one big reason Labour is behind is their complete collapse in Scotland in 2015.
In 2010, Labour had 41 seats in Scotland, the Lib Dems had 11, the SNP had 6, and Tories had 1.
In 2015, the SNP won 56 seats, 1 Labour, 1 Lib Dem, 1 Tory.
Corbyn didn't do that. Miliband (and circumstances) did.
If Labour could count on 40 more seats from Scotland, matching 2010, then...Yes I know there's a weird presumption that a Labour-SNP coalition is possible but nobody actually talks about it because, well, can't really win votes in England campaigning with the Scottish NATIONAL party.
In 2010, Labour had 41 seats in Scotland, the Lib Dems had 11, the SNP had 6, and Tories had 1.
In 2015, the SNP won 56 seats, 1 Labour, 1 Lib Dem, 1 Tory.
Corbyn didn't do that. Miliband (and circumstances) did.
If Labour could count on 40 more seats from Scotland, matching 2010, then...Yes I know there's a weird presumption that a Labour-SNP coalition is possible but nobody actually talks about it because, well, can't really win votes in England campaigning with the Scottish NATIONAL party.
Nothing To Be Done
You can certainly improve suburban transit to certain job centers, a bit, but only a bit. All the "wah our local transit authority doesn't serve the suburbs enough" complaining misses the point that the suburbs are just not built for mass transit. They're built for cars. Reasonably fast and reasonably frequent service to within .5-.75 miles of job centers in the suburbs just isn't realistic, let alone to/from suburban residential areas.
Fixing this requires infill development, which most areas don't want.
Fixing this requires infill development, which most areas don't want.
Generation Lead
If you the lead-crime link is true, then the lead-asshole link should also be true. The behavioral impact of lead which leads to criminal behavior should also be linked to lower level asshole behavior. And given differential treatment of racial groups by law enforcement, one person's asshole behavior is another person's crime.
Assholes everywhere, just not every asshole gets treated as a criminal, and not all criminality causes racial groups to be labeled super predators.
Three recent papers consider the effects of lead exposure on juvenile delinquency and crime rates, using three very different empirical approaches and social contexts. All have plausible (but very different) control groups, and all point to the same conclusion: lead exposure leads to big increases in criminal behavior.
Assholes everywhere, just not every asshole gets treated as a criminal, and not all criminality causes racial groups to be labeled super predators.
The Guy Won't Pay
That's the funniest thing. Also, true!
But a consistent theme, the sources said, was the concern about whether the president would accept the advice of his lawyers and refrain from public statements and tweets that have consistently undercut his position.
“The concerns were, ‘The guy won’t pay and he won’t listen,’” said one lawyer close to the White House who is familiar with some of the discussions between the firms and the administration, as well as deliberations within the firms themselves.
TF
And the Trump Fortnight (TF, or The Fuck) is born:
President Donald Trump has a plan. It’ll be ready in two weeks.
From overhauling the tax code to releasing an infrastructure package to making decisions on Nafta and the Paris climate agreement, Trump has a common refrain: A big announcement is coming in just “two weeks.” It rarely does.
The Worst Prime Minister
Cameron was horrible in all of the ways you'd expect a 21st century post-Blair Tory prime minister to be (almost from central casting), but May is really, really, horrible. Authoritarian, narcissistic, ignorant, bigoted, defensive, dishonest, and of course very bad at hiding all of those things.
The Daily Mail is like the English print version of Fox and Friends. You get the idea.
The Daily Mail, not her father’s church, is her spiritual guide, its editor, Paul Dacre, her compass. She never challenges its warped version of middle England. She dare not stand up to the Mail’s hard Brexit demands.
The Daily Mail is like the English print version of Fox and Friends. You get the idea.
Morning Thread
Seems I missed some stuff in past twelve hours. Sitting on the sidelines, I find it hard to keep up. This kind of chaos cannot be healthy for those directly involved.
Monday, June 05, 2017
Just Trying To Impress The Boss
I suppose this is a trial balloon for a Trump defense - all his underlings worship him and were just trying to impress him and if any laws were broken, well, Trump didn't know a thing about it.
Lawyer up, kids, he's gonna send you all to jail...
“My fear is that a bunch of people were freelancing—doing things not thinking about the repercussions, but thinking Trump would be so impressed by it,” said one person close to the president. He said that with all the resources the government is putting toward the investigation, “they’re going to want a return.” And in a climate like that, any misguided meeting, bluntly worded email, or undisclosed contact with a Russian official—whether or not Trump himself knew about it—could surface as an incriminating bombshell.
Lawyer up, kids, he's gonna send you all to jail...
Romney Voters
Pursuing Romney voters (who?) isn't a winning electoral strategy, it's a decision about who you want your coalition to be.
The dirty little secret about "nice, polite republicans" is that they are neither nice, nor polite. Discuss. White suburbanites went for Trump. Bigly. You can argue that Hillary Clinton was, in their eyes, so horrible that they couldn't vote for her, or you have to accept that they just weren't appalled by Trump. Maybe some mix of the two. I'm not making that case, I'm just saying that Democrats have been chasing affluent suburban voters for a long time, basically because of class affinity. They're educated! They're professional! They're people like "us!" (affluent DC election professionals). They can't possibly vote for those evil racist assholes!
Yes. Yes they can. And they do. Why the fuck do you think they live in the suburbs? (#notallpeoplewholiveinthesuburbs)
Thus, former Hillary Clinton adviser Jesse Ferguson writes at Politico, Democrats should pursue Romney voters — that is, comfortable suburban professionals, mostly white, who are supposedly appalled by President Trump's antics — to win elections in the future.
The dirty little secret about "nice, polite republicans" is that they are neither nice, nor polite. Discuss. White suburbanites went for Trump. Bigly. You can argue that Hillary Clinton was, in their eyes, so horrible that they couldn't vote for her, or you have to accept that they just weren't appalled by Trump. Maybe some mix of the two. I'm not making that case, I'm just saying that Democrats have been chasing affluent suburban voters for a long time, basically because of class affinity. They're educated! They're professional! They're people like "us!" (affluent DC election professionals). They can't possibly vote for those evil racist assholes!
Yes. Yes they can. And they do. Why the fuck do you think they live in the suburbs? (#notallpeoplewholiveinthesuburbs)
May
"Kids" (teens) are going to do the sex. Everybody knows this. Tell them how it works and how to prevent pregnancy and stop being so weird about it.
All the prudery and "morality" that I got in my teens seems so ridiculous. I can't believe adults stick with this stuff. I mean, seriously, your brains are broken. Stop it.
In Texas, Abstinence-Only Programs May Contribute To Teen Pregnancies
All the prudery and "morality" that I got in my teens seems so ridiculous. I can't believe adults stick with this stuff. I mean, seriously, your brains are broken. Stop it.
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