ANOTHER WHISTLE BLOWER: CROOKED TRIED TO FIX HIS IRS AUDIT
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JOE IS GONNA HAVE TO REALLY UP HIS GAME TO GET KEEPERS VOTE
President Trump has made 12,019 false or misleading claims over 928 days
President Trump’s proclivity for spouting exaggerated numbers, unwarranted boasts and outright falsehoods has continued at a remarkable pace. As of Aug. 5, his 928th day in office, he had made 12,019 false or misleading claims, according to the Fact Checker’s database that analyzes, categorizes and tracks every suspect statement the president has uttered.
Trump crossed the 10,000 mark on April 26, and he has been averaging about 20 fishy claims a day since then. From the start of his presidency, he has averaged about 13 such claims a day.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...as-made-false-or-misleading-claims-over-days/
President Trump has made 12,019 false or misleading claims over 928 days
President Trump’s proclivity for spouting exaggerated numbers, unwarranted boasts and outright falsehoods has continued at a remarkable pace. As of Aug. 5, his 928th day in office, he had made 12,019 false or misleading claims, according to the Fact Checker’s database that analyzes, categorizes and tracks every suspect statement the president has uttered.
Trump crossed the 10,000 mark on April 26, and he has been averaging about 20 fishy claims a day since then. From the start of his presidency, he has averaged about 13 such claims a day.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...as-made-false-or-misleading-claims-over-days/
New IG report rebukes Comey — and debunks Trump
the report also discloses that the FBI has declined to prosecute Comey for these violations, and — notably — it says there is “no evidence” that he or his attorneys leaked classified information.
That last point is key, because Trump has accused Comey of exactly that, and repeatedly — at least 10 times over two years, according to a review of Trump’s comments.
Even that report, though, didn’t indicate Comey leaked those memos or any classified information.
The IG now says, after a thorough investigation, that Trump’s claim was unfounded. “We found no evidence that Comey or his attorneys released any of the classified information contained in any of the Memos to members of the media,” the report says.
“I don’t need a public apology from those who defamed me, but a quick message with a ‘sorry we lied about you’ would be nice,” Comey said.
the report also discloses that the FBI has declined to prosecute Comey for these violations, and — notably — it says there is “no evidence” that he or his attorneys leaked classified information.
That last point is key, because Trump has accused Comey of exactly that, and repeatedly — at least 10 times over two years, according to a review of Trump’s comments.
Even that report, though, didn’t indicate Comey leaked those memos or any classified information.
The IG now says, after a thorough investigation, that Trump’s claim was unfounded. “We found no evidence that Comey or his attorneys released any of the classified information contained in any of the Memos to members of the media,” the report says.
“I don’t need a public apology from those who defamed me, but a quick message with a ‘sorry we lied about you’ would be nice,” Comey said.
HAVE YOU SEEN THE LATEST POLL NUMBERS? WE HAVE SOME TREMENDOUS POLL NUMBERS GREATES #S YET
Trump trails all five Democrats who have consistently ranked in top spots in surveys of the 2020 Democratic presidential race, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll.
Biden leads Trump by 16 points while Sanders leads by 14 points, Warren leads by 12 points and Harris leads by 11 points in hypothetical match-ups with Trump. Pete Buttigieg (D) with a 9-point lead over Trump, 49 to 40 percent, if they were to go head-to-head.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/459101-trump-trails-top-5-2020-democrats
CROOKED IS EVEN LOSING TO THAT GAY GUY AND THE FAKE INDIAN - GREAT NUMBERS
Trump trails all five Democrats who have consistently ranked in top spots in surveys of the 2020 Democratic presidential race, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll.
Biden leads Trump by 16 points while Sanders leads by 14 points, Warren leads by 12 points and Harris leads by 11 points in hypothetical match-ups with Trump. Pete Buttigieg (D) with a 9-point lead over Trump, 49 to 40 percent, if they were to go head-to-head.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/459101-trump-trails-top-5-2020-democrats
CROOKED IS EVEN LOSING TO THAT GAY GUY AND THE FAKE INDIAN - GREAT NUMBERS
THEY MUST BE POLLING ONLY DEMOCRATS AGAIN.
John Brennan warns Trump that his 'protective cocoon' is 'temporary'
Former CIA Director John Brennan warned President Trump that the "protective cocoon" protecting him is "only temporary" in an ominous tweet defending James Comey.
Brennan responded by saying Comey "is far more decent, ethical, honest, competent, & patriotic than you could ever hope to be" and "It is only because Attorney General William Barr and Senate Republicans that he is not in a world of "trouble & hurt. But their protective cocoon is only temporary..."
Former CIA Director John Brennan warned President Trump that the "protective cocoon" protecting him is "only temporary" in an ominous tweet defending James Comey.
Brennan responded by saying Comey "is far more decent, ethical, honest, competent, & patriotic than you could ever hope to be" and "It is only because Attorney General William Barr and Senate Republicans that he is not in a world of "trouble & hurt. But their protective cocoon is only temporary..."
And she got 3 million more votes. The polling was pretty accurate. The lying coward managed to eke out an electoral win by a total of about 80,000 votes in 3 states. Don't count on that happening again for cheetos.
DONT FORGET RUSSIA SWITCHED ENOUGH VOTES TO GET THEIR GUY IN OFFICE, AND HE IS REPAYING THEM IN SPADES.
Jesus, that tabloid shit isn't even close to the actual truth.
Everyone gets caught up in national numbers.
What the pollsters did not recognize was Sanders beating Clinton in Michigan and Wisconsin. I talked about this extensively at that time....this was a cry for help, for something different, to fight ongoing economic issues. In the general election, Trump was the something different to just enough people to pull out the EC victory.
It is very difficult to poll a "fvck it" vote. A lot of that is a snap choice at the polls. And it is impossible to poll a "fvck it, we are not organizing that state" outcome (Hillary in WI, the dumbasses).
If you don't believe this, consider Sanders' wins in Indiana and WV. I am pretty plugged in to both states, and believe me: the Democratic Party in both of these states is not far to the left at all. Sanders and Trump won Indiana. If someone is friends with me on Facebook, you can go back and find my post on Trump winning the Indiana primary, I called that shit. His win here followed some really bad economic news in the most populous county in the state. Granted, he showed up and lied and said he would save those jobs at Carrier, then did no such thing, of course. But it is the same dynamics. Shit, Pence committed to CRUZ for the primary (more proof he is an opportunistic, not very smart, not very Christian, piece of shit, lap dogging for Trump, he would be a Nazi for sure).
Yep. I still believe Sanders would have beat trump. He had a lot of people enthusiastic, and I believe he would have gotten a lot of that something different vote.
I do not agree. I think that is a big part of what made him different. I think it has been instructive to a large part of the electorate that Marxism, Communism, real socialism, and "democratic socialism" are all different things, and "third way democraticism" is just Republican Lite (yes folks, Obama was Republican Lite).
The 2020 problem is he is no longer different. There are a dozen people saying the same shit. Eleven of them are lying lol.
It has been instructive to some. But I watch the "socialist" thing almost daily here where I live. And that's from a state that voted bernie over hillary by 16 points. The ones that get hung up on the socialist thing can't be un-hung.
Die hards will be die hards. While they collect "Social" Security.
True. I was talking to a guy last year and he was railing against Social Security because people should work hard and not need it. Later in the conversation, without me asking, he told me his dad was on Soc Sec disability and had been for over 20 years. When I asked him why his dad deserved it but others didn't, he didn't take it well at all.
PEOPLE ON ONE SIDE OF MY FAMILY ARE THE SAME WAY. HATE OBAMA CARE BUT SEVERAL OF THEM ARE GETTING MEDICAL ATTENTION THEY WERE UNABLE TO GET FOR YEARS AND IF YOU INCLUDE MEDICARE ALMOST ALL OF THEM ARE.
PEOPLE JUST DO NOT THINK. THEY STILL THINK PEOPLE ON WELFARE ARE EATING STEAKS 3 TIMES A DAY AND DRIVING NEW MERCEDES. THE REPUBLICAN BIG LIE MACHINE IS REAL AND IT WORKS, AND IT HAS ALL THE MONEY IT NEEDS TO SPREAD THE LIES.
PEOPLE JUST DO NOT THINK. THEY STILL THINK PEOPLE ON WELFARE ARE EATING STEAKS 3 TIMES A DAY AND DRIVING NEW MERCEDES. THE REPUBLICAN BIG LIE MACHINE IS REAL AND IT WORKS, AND IT HAS ALL THE MONEY IT NEEDS TO SPREAD THE LIES.
POOR BABY - AID TOLD WHAT HE THINKS OF HIS CHILDREN (IT AINT GOOD)
she began to tell reporters about Mr. Trump’s eating habits; his youngest son, Barron Trump; and his thoughts about the weight and appearance of his daughter Tiffany Trump, according to a group of current and former administration officials
Westerhout said Trump did not want to be seen in pictures with Tiffany because of her weight.
esterhout also jokingly told the journalists that Trump couldn’t pick Tiffany out of a crowd
If there was any question that the room appeared full, Ms. Westerhout would make sure to find staff members or interns to send to it to avoid Mr. Trump’s anger at lackluster attendance.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/30/trumps-personal-assistant-fired-ivanka-tiffany-1479226
she began to tell reporters about Mr. Trump’s eating habits; his youngest son, Barron Trump; and his thoughts about the weight and appearance of his daughter Tiffany Trump, according to a group of current and former administration officials
Westerhout said Trump did not want to be seen in pictures with Tiffany because of her weight.
esterhout also jokingly told the journalists that Trump couldn’t pick Tiffany out of a crowd
If there was any question that the room appeared full, Ms. Westerhout would make sure to find staff members or interns to send to it to avoid Mr. Trump’s anger at lackluster attendance.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/30/trumps-personal-assistant-fired-ivanka-tiffany-1479226
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CROOKED SAYS ECONOMY IS GREAT THANKS TO HIM BUT IF IT ISNT ITS SOMEONE ELSES FAULT
WASHINGTON — President Trump wants Americans to understand that the economy is doing great, thanks to him. But if in fact the economy sours, then it is someone else’s fault.
Mr. Trump’s Blame List is long. On top, of course, is Jerome H. Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve — never mind that Mr. Trump was the one who appointed him. Then there are the Democrats, and not to mention the news media.
And on Friday, the president added American businesses to the list, arguing that struggling companies have only themselves to blame and are rationalizing their own mistakes by pointing to, just to name an example, Mr. Trump’s multibillion-dollar tariffs and America’s biggest trade war in generations.
The president’s search for economic villains comes amid signs of a slowdown, exacerbated by uncertainty from his showdown with China over the future of the relationship between the two largest economies in the world.
Consumer confidence, which increased significantly on Mr. Trump’s watch, fell by 8.6 percent in August, its largest monthly decline since 2012 when the government was on the edge of a so-called fiscal cliff. The University of Michigan, which measures confidence, attributed it to the trade war, reporting that one in three consumers cited Mr. Trump’s tariffs without being prompted.
The concern appears to be bleeding into the presidential race. For the first time since Mr. Trump was elected, more voters responding to a Quinnipiac University poll said the national economy is getting worse than better. Altogether, 37 percent saw the economy heading down compared with 31 percent who thought it was improving and 30 percent who said it was the same.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/30/...&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=Politics
WASHINGTON — President Trump wants Americans to understand that the economy is doing great, thanks to him. But if in fact the economy sours, then it is someone else’s fault.
Mr. Trump’s Blame List is long. On top, of course, is Jerome H. Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve — never mind that Mr. Trump was the one who appointed him. Then there are the Democrats, and not to mention the news media.
And on Friday, the president added American businesses to the list, arguing that struggling companies have only themselves to blame and are rationalizing their own mistakes by pointing to, just to name an example, Mr. Trump’s multibillion-dollar tariffs and America’s biggest trade war in generations.
The president’s search for economic villains comes amid signs of a slowdown, exacerbated by uncertainty from his showdown with China over the future of the relationship between the two largest economies in the world.
Consumer confidence, which increased significantly on Mr. Trump’s watch, fell by 8.6 percent in August, its largest monthly decline since 2012 when the government was on the edge of a so-called fiscal cliff. The University of Michigan, which measures confidence, attributed it to the trade war, reporting that one in three consumers cited Mr. Trump’s tariffs without being prompted.
The concern appears to be bleeding into the presidential race. For the first time since Mr. Trump was elected, more voters responding to a Quinnipiac University poll said the national economy is getting worse than better. Altogether, 37 percent saw the economy heading down compared with 31 percent who thought it was improving and 30 percent who said it was the same.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/30/...&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=Politics
Trump pledged not to use his office to help his business. Then he pitched his Florida club for the next G-7.
When President Trump decided to keep ownership of his company and continue to do business with foreign governments, he said nobody could stop him.
But voters could trust him to police himself, he said.
“I will be leaving my great business in total,” Trump said, pledging to do more to keep his roles separate than was required of him in the Constitution.
“There are lines that we would never cross, and that’s mixing business with anything government,” said Eric Trump, one of two Trump sons who would be taking over day-to-day control of the Trump Organization.
Over time, Trump has repeatedly crossed that line, routinely visiting his properties and talking them up on television and Twitter. The most overt example came last week, when Trump said he was likely to award next year’s Group of Seven summit to his company’s Doral golf resort in Florida — a plan that would direct millions of dollars to benefit his own business.
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rump, for instance, promised he would distance himself from his real estate business. But he has spent all or part of more than 250 days at his hotels and golf courses since he took office, according to a Washington Post analysis.
He promised he would separate the government from his business. But federal taxpayers have already spent tens of thousands of dollars at his properties, often to pay for staff accompanying Trump on his visits, according to government documents released after public-records requests.
Trump said he would not use the presidency to promote his properties. But he has mentioned his properties at least 70 times in speeches and other statements, The Post found. The most recent example, of course, was his long ode to Doral at this year’s G-7 summit in France.
It’s still unknown what a financial boost holding the G-7 at Doral could be for Trump and his company. It could be a significant score, especially for a venue where revenue fell $17 million from 2015 to 2017.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...b353c0-ca7b-11e9-be05-f76ac4ec618c_story.html
When President Trump decided to keep ownership of his company and continue to do business with foreign governments, he said nobody could stop him.
But voters could trust him to police himself, he said.
“I will be leaving my great business in total,” Trump said, pledging to do more to keep his roles separate than was required of him in the Constitution.
“There are lines that we would never cross, and that’s mixing business with anything government,” said Eric Trump, one of two Trump sons who would be taking over day-to-day control of the Trump Organization.
Over time, Trump has repeatedly crossed that line, routinely visiting his properties and talking them up on television and Twitter. The most overt example came last week, when Trump said he was likely to award next year’s Group of Seven summit to his company’s Doral golf resort in Florida — a plan that would direct millions of dollars to benefit his own business.
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rump, for instance, promised he would distance himself from his real estate business. But he has spent all or part of more than 250 days at his hotels and golf courses since he took office, according to a Washington Post analysis.
He promised he would separate the government from his business. But federal taxpayers have already spent tens of thousands of dollars at his properties, often to pay for staff accompanying Trump on his visits, according to government documents released after public-records requests.
Trump said he would not use the presidency to promote his properties. But he has mentioned his properties at least 70 times in speeches and other statements, The Post found. The most recent example, of course, was his long ode to Doral at this year’s G-7 summit in France.
It’s still unknown what a financial boost holding the G-7 at Doral could be for Trump and his company. It could be a significant score, especially for a venue where revenue fell $17 million from 2015 to 2017.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...b353c0-ca7b-11e9-be05-f76ac4ec618c_story.html
“The president paused in front of the exhibit that discussed the role of the Dutch in the slave trade,” Bunch writes. “As he pondered the label I felt that maybe he was paying attention to the work of the museum. He quickly proved me wrong. As he turned from the display he said to me, ‘You know, they love me in the Netherlands.’ All I could say was let’s continue walking.”
ACTUALLY LIKE EVERYWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD IN THE NETHERLANDS, THEY DESPISE HIM.
ACTUALLY LIKE EVERYWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD IN THE NETHERLANDS, THEY DESPISE HIM.
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In Trump country, a group of coal miners rebel over lost jobs, missed paychecks
Since Chris Rowe and Chris Sexton were laid off from their mining jobs this summer along with 300 co-workers, they have been camped out here in the mountains of eastern Kentucky, blocking a train car full of coal from going to market. Their protest is against coal company Blackjewel, which halted operations in July without settling its final salary obligations to Rowe, Sexton and an estimated 1,800 other workers across the country. But it’s also become a declaration against corporate bankruptcy laws that they say deprioritize workers’ interests.
“The same situation may have happened to others, but we are the ones making a stand,” said Rowe, 35, who was laid off days after he purchased his first house. “We mined the coal and broke our backs to get that coal, so that coal belongs to us until they pay for it.”
Blackjewel is part of the latest spate of coal producers to file for bankruptcy, a trend that has lingered under President Trump as the nation’s appetite for coal has continued to shrink.The Trump administration’s rollback of environmental regulationsimplemented under Obama have failed to spark a revival in communities like Cumberland that formed his political base during the 2016 election.
Cumberland is located in Harlan County, where Trump won 85 percent of the vote. But these miners say their fight isn’t a political one. At the camp, there is an informal policy against speaking about Trump or partisan issues, underscoring the president’s continued popularity in areas where the local economy has continued to suffer.
“That is the main reason we have gotten as far as we’ve got now; it’s because we have kept the nonsense down,” Rowe said, referring to the nation’s divisive political debate.
“The administration has definitely pulled back regulations, and that has stopped some of the bleeding, but renewable energy is so cost-effective, and natural gas prices are so low, the pulling back of some regulations has not been able to stop the decline of coal,” Marmon said.
JUST LIKE CLINTON TOLD THEY - BUT THEY PUT THEIR FAITH IN A LIAR AND A CHEAT AND A COWARD AND A TRAITOR
CLINTON OFFERED THEM A 500,000,000 ECONOMIC PACKAGE TO BRING THEM INTO THE 21ST CENTURY - BUT THEY PUT THEIR FAITH IN A SNAKE OIL SALESMAN. NOW THEY ARE STANDING AROUND BEGGING FOR THE MONEY THEY EARNED RATHER THAN EARNING HIGH WAGES FROM HIGH TECH.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/in-trump-country-a-group-of-coal-miners-rebel-over-lost-jobs-missed-paychecks/2019/08/31/52ee4fbc-cb2e-11e9-a4f3-c081a126de70_story.html
Since Chris Rowe and Chris Sexton were laid off from their mining jobs this summer along with 300 co-workers, they have been camped out here in the mountains of eastern Kentucky, blocking a train car full of coal from going to market. Their protest is against coal company Blackjewel, which halted operations in July without settling its final salary obligations to Rowe, Sexton and an estimated 1,800 other workers across the country. But it’s also become a declaration against corporate bankruptcy laws that they say deprioritize workers’ interests.
“The same situation may have happened to others, but we are the ones making a stand,” said Rowe, 35, who was laid off days after he purchased his first house. “We mined the coal and broke our backs to get that coal, so that coal belongs to us until they pay for it.”
Blackjewel is part of the latest spate of coal producers to file for bankruptcy, a trend that has lingered under President Trump as the nation’s appetite for coal has continued to shrink.The Trump administration’s rollback of environmental regulationsimplemented under Obama have failed to spark a revival in communities like Cumberland that formed his political base during the 2016 election.
Cumberland is located in Harlan County, where Trump won 85 percent of the vote. But these miners say their fight isn’t a political one. At the camp, there is an informal policy against speaking about Trump or partisan issues, underscoring the president’s continued popularity in areas where the local economy has continued to suffer.
“That is the main reason we have gotten as far as we’ve got now; it’s because we have kept the nonsense down,” Rowe said, referring to the nation’s divisive political debate.
“The administration has definitely pulled back regulations, and that has stopped some of the bleeding, but renewable energy is so cost-effective, and natural gas prices are so low, the pulling back of some regulations has not been able to stop the decline of coal,” Marmon said.
JUST LIKE CLINTON TOLD THEY - BUT THEY PUT THEIR FAITH IN A LIAR AND A CHEAT AND A COWARD AND A TRAITOR
CLINTON OFFERED THEM A 500,000,000 ECONOMIC PACKAGE TO BRING THEM INTO THE 21ST CENTURY - BUT THEY PUT THEIR FAITH IN A SNAKE OIL SALESMAN. NOW THEY ARE STANDING AROUND BEGGING FOR THE MONEY THEY EARNED RATHER THAN EARNING HIGH WAGES FROM HIGH TECH.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/in-trump-country-a-group-of-coal-miners-rebel-over-lost-jobs-missed-paychecks/2019/08/31/52ee4fbc-cb2e-11e9-a4f3-c081a126de70_story.html
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Why you need a password manager
Password managers generate strong new passwords when you create accounts or change a password, and they store all of your passwords — and, in many cases, your credit card numbers, addresses, bank accounts, and other information — in one place, protecting them with a single strong master password. If you remember your master password, your password manager will remember everything else, filling in your username and password for you whenever you log in to a site or app on your phone or computer.
Wirecutter’s favorite password manager is 1Password.
If you can’t or don’t want to pay the $36 per year for a 1Password subscription, you can find good free options too. Wirecutter’s favorite is LastPass Free — its apps aren’t as full-featured as 1Password’s, and its recommendations for fixing password problems aren’t as clearly explained or as easy to act on, but it’s still pretty simple to use and it still works on just about any computer, tablet, or phone.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/27/...n=click&module=Smarter Living&pgtype=Homepage
Password managers generate strong new passwords when you create accounts or change a password, and they store all of your passwords — and, in many cases, your credit card numbers, addresses, bank accounts, and other information — in one place, protecting them with a single strong master password. If you remember your master password, your password manager will remember everything else, filling in your username and password for you whenever you log in to a site or app on your phone or computer.
Wirecutter’s favorite password manager is 1Password.
If you can’t or don’t want to pay the $36 per year for a 1Password subscription, you can find good free options too. Wirecutter’s favorite is LastPass Free — its apps aren’t as full-featured as 1Password’s, and its recommendations for fixing password problems aren’t as clearly explained or as easy to act on, but it’s still pretty simple to use and it still works on just about any computer, tablet, or phone.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/27/...n=click&module=Smarter Living&pgtype=Homepage
THE FUTURE - WHEN AUTOMATION REPLACES WORK GUARANTEED INCOME NO STRINGS ATTACHED
A nonprofit organization was looking to give 20 African American single mothers living in public housing $1,000 each month for a year. They’d be able to use the money in any way they pleased.
or decades, Republicans and Democrats alike have tried to push families out of poverty by adding restrictions to government welfare programs. There were work mandates, time limits, benefit caps — rules aimed at pointing families toward what the government thinks are good choices.
Now, there is increasing interest in trying out the reverse. Here, in the cradle of the South, the women would be a part of one of the first pilot programs in the country to assess a seemingly simple solution to systemic poverty: giving people money — no strings attached.
The idea of guaranteed income is gaining traction, from the presidential debate stage to Silicon Valley, where tech titans such as Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk have promoted it as a way to fend off a gloomy future in which automation and climate change eliminate millions of jobs.
“Americans will work even harder when they’re given the resources to get ahead,” Yang said recently on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” “The money will go right into local Main Street businesses, to car repairs, to day care, to Little League.”
At the end of six months, none of the women reported using an emergency lender. Nearly all said they had enough money to buy school supplies, when fewer than half had said that before. They reported cooking more balanced meals, visiting the doctor and attending church more often.
“The beauty of all of this has just been how folks are light,” Nyandoro said. “They aren’t walking around with the heaviness of life that, unfortunately, so many times low-income folks have to carry.”
Many women who were employed found better jobs.
Still, Gray was gaining hope. Nine months into the program, she had saved close to $13,000.
“I’m making something of myself,” she said. “I don’t worry that much about money no more.”
Outside, Smith was gathering the group of volunteers who had come to help Gray build her home. They were about to rush inside.
“All right everyone, let’s go inside," he said. “Let’s go! Open up the windows!”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/09/01/month-no-strings-attached/
A nonprofit organization was looking to give 20 African American single mothers living in public housing $1,000 each month for a year. They’d be able to use the money in any way they pleased.
or decades, Republicans and Democrats alike have tried to push families out of poverty by adding restrictions to government welfare programs. There were work mandates, time limits, benefit caps — rules aimed at pointing families toward what the government thinks are good choices.
Now, there is increasing interest in trying out the reverse. Here, in the cradle of the South, the women would be a part of one of the first pilot programs in the country to assess a seemingly simple solution to systemic poverty: giving people money — no strings attached.
The idea of guaranteed income is gaining traction, from the presidential debate stage to Silicon Valley, where tech titans such as Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk have promoted it as a way to fend off a gloomy future in which automation and climate change eliminate millions of jobs.
“Americans will work even harder when they’re given the resources to get ahead,” Yang said recently on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” “The money will go right into local Main Street businesses, to car repairs, to day care, to Little League.”
At the end of six months, none of the women reported using an emergency lender. Nearly all said they had enough money to buy school supplies, when fewer than half had said that before. They reported cooking more balanced meals, visiting the doctor and attending church more often.
“The beauty of all of this has just been how folks are light,” Nyandoro said. “They aren’t walking around with the heaviness of life that, unfortunately, so many times low-income folks have to carry.”
Many women who were employed found better jobs.
Still, Gray was gaining hope. Nine months into the program, she had saved close to $13,000.
“I’m making something of myself,” she said. “I don’t worry that much about money no more.”
Outside, Smith was gathering the group of volunteers who had come to help Gray build her home. They were about to rush inside.
“All right everyone, let’s go inside," he said. “Let’s go! Open up the windows!”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/09/01/month-no-strings-attached/
CONGRESS WILL OPEN INQUIRY INTO CROOKED HUSH MONEY COVERUP (INDIVIDUAL 1)
“It’s inconceivable Michael Cohen acted alone . . . what happened?” said Duncan Levin, a former prosecutor for the Justice Department and Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. “When you have one of the most important, sensitive investigations into the president and his family and his company, and then when you unexpectedly drop it, it is going to raise a lot of questions.”
When the House returns to session next week, the Judiciary panel plans to continue focusing on five episodes of potential obstruction of justice by the president outlined in special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s lengthy report this spring. Democrats have argued that Trump would have been charged with obstruction in those five instances were he not president.
The hush-money payments represent a sixth instance of potentially impeachable presidential misbehavior, they say.
Cohen told prosecutors that “in coordination with and at the direction” of Trump, he worked with Pecker to pay $150,000 to McDougal as part of a “catch and kill” operation. He also said he worked “in coordination” with the then-GOP presidential candidate to arrange a $130,000 payment to Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...075548-c9ad-11e9-8067-196d9f17af68_story.html
“It’s inconceivable Michael Cohen acted alone . . . what happened?” said Duncan Levin, a former prosecutor for the Justice Department and Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. “When you have one of the most important, sensitive investigations into the president and his family and his company, and then when you unexpectedly drop it, it is going to raise a lot of questions.”
When the House returns to session next week, the Judiciary panel plans to continue focusing on five episodes of potential obstruction of justice by the president outlined in special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s lengthy report this spring. Democrats have argued that Trump would have been charged with obstruction in those five instances were he not president.
The hush-money payments represent a sixth instance of potentially impeachable presidential misbehavior, they say.
Cohen told prosecutors that “in coordination with and at the direction” of Trump, he worked with Pecker to pay $150,000 to McDougal as part of a “catch and kill” operation. He also said he worked “in coordination” with the then-GOP presidential candidate to arrange a $130,000 payment to Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...075548-c9ad-11e9-8067-196d9f17af68_story.html
W.Va. scandal muddies legacy of Vatican’s longtime fixer from Baltimore
Late last summer, Vatican officials realized they had an uncontainable mess — four whistleblowing priests alleging financial and sexual misconduct by the bishop of West Virginia. So they did what Catholic officials have done for decades: They turned to William Lori.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...b4be0a-9f5e-11e9-9ed4-c9089972ad5a_story.html
Late last summer, Vatican officials realized they had an uncontainable mess — four whistleblowing priests alleging financial and sexual misconduct by the bishop of West Virginia. So they did what Catholic officials have done for decades: They turned to William Lori.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...b4be0a-9f5e-11e9-9ed4-c9089972ad5a_story.html
that means a lot coming from the guy who believes in two different religions...…….you probably also believe you are a successful business man.
The Trump Voters Whose ‘Need for Chaos’ Obliterates Everything Else
Donald Trump has set a match again and again to chaos-inducing issues like racial hostility, authoritarianism and white identity politics.
a segment of the American electorate that was once peripheral is drawn to “chaos incitement” and that this segment has gained decisive influence through the rise of social media.
In the political arena, this technological transformation allows the transmission of a type of information that portrays “political candidates or groups negatively” and has “a low evidential basis.” The “new information” transmitted on social media includes “conspiracy theories, fake news, discussions of political scandals and negative campaigns.”
has been “linked to large-scale political outcomes within recent years such as the 2016 U.S. presidential election.”
On a less cataclysmic level, the authors’ analysis helps explain the intensity of anti-establishment voting that drove Trump’s successful takeover of the Republican Party in the 2016 primaries.
The authors describe “chaos incitement” as a “strategy of last resort by marginalized status-seekers,” willing to adopt disruptive tactics. [TRANSLATION "THE BASE" - THE KNUCKLEHEADS ON PULLMAN WHO ARE TOTALLY IRRELEVANT IN THEIR DAILY LIVES]
those who meet their definition of having a “need for chaos” express that need by willingly spreading disinformation. Their goal is not to advance their own ideology but to undermine political elites, left and right, and to “mobilize others against politicians in general.” These disrupters do not “share rumors because they believe them to be true. For the core group, hostile political rumors are simply a tool to create havoc.” [I WOULD ADD AND ATTRACT ATTENTION TO THEMSELVES]
n the past, chaos-seekers were on outer edges of politics, unable to exercise influence. Contemporary social media — Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and so on — has empowered this constituency, providing a bullhorn to disseminate false news, conspiracy theories and allegations of scandal to a broad audience. Examples include the lunacy of the Comet Pizza story (a.k.a. Pizzagate), the various anti-Obama birther conspiracies and Alex Jones’s claim that the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting that left 20 children dead was a “complete fake” staged by the government to promote gun control.
They identified those who are “drawn to chaos” through their affirmative responses to the following statements:
When the echoes of similar processes across multiple individuals reinforce each other, it can add up to cascades of hostile political rumors,” conspiracy theories and fake news.
The intense hostility to political establishments of all kinds among what could be called “chaos voters” helps explain what Pew Research and others have found: a growing distrust among Republican voters of higher education as well as empirically based science, both of which are increasingly seen as allied with the liberal establishment.
“Populist movements,” “rely on inflammatory rhetoric to create a tribal ‘us versus them’ condition — this type of environment instigates neural mechanisms from the evolutionary desire to be part of the group.”
Might Trump and his loyal supporters seek to bring down the system if he is defeated in 2020? What about later, if the damage he has inflicted on our customs and norms festers, eroding the invisible structures that underpin everything that actually makes America great?
A political leader who thrives on chaos, relishes disorder and governs on the principle of narcissistic self-interest is virtually certain to find defeat intolerable. If voters deny Trump a second term, how many of his most ardent supporters, especially those with a “need for chaos,” will find defeat unbearable?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/04/opinion/trump-voters-chaos.html
Donald Trump has set a match again and again to chaos-inducing issues like racial hostility, authoritarianism and white identity politics.
a segment of the American electorate that was once peripheral is drawn to “chaos incitement” and that this segment has gained decisive influence through the rise of social media.
In the political arena, this technological transformation allows the transmission of a type of information that portrays “political candidates or groups negatively” and has “a low evidential basis.” The “new information” transmitted on social media includes “conspiracy theories, fake news, discussions of political scandals and negative campaigns.”
has been “linked to large-scale political outcomes within recent years such as the 2016 U.S. presidential election.”
On a less cataclysmic level, the authors’ analysis helps explain the intensity of anti-establishment voting that drove Trump’s successful takeover of the Republican Party in the 2016 primaries.
The authors describe “chaos incitement” as a “strategy of last resort by marginalized status-seekers,” willing to adopt disruptive tactics. [TRANSLATION "THE BASE" - THE KNUCKLEHEADS ON PULLMAN WHO ARE TOTALLY IRRELEVANT IN THEIR DAILY LIVES]
those who meet their definition of having a “need for chaos” express that need by willingly spreading disinformation. Their goal is not to advance their own ideology but to undermine political elites, left and right, and to “mobilize others against politicians in general.” These disrupters do not “share rumors because they believe them to be true. For the core group, hostile political rumors are simply a tool to create havoc.” [I WOULD ADD AND ATTRACT ATTENTION TO THEMSELVES]
n the past, chaos-seekers were on outer edges of politics, unable to exercise influence. Contemporary social media — Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and so on — has empowered this constituency, providing a bullhorn to disseminate false news, conspiracy theories and allegations of scandal to a broad audience. Examples include the lunacy of the Comet Pizza story (a.k.a. Pizzagate), the various anti-Obama birther conspiracies and Alex Jones’s claim that the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting that left 20 children dead was a “complete fake” staged by the government to promote gun control.
They identified those who are “drawn to chaos” through their affirmative responses to the following statements:
- I fantasize about a natural disaster wiping out most of humanity such that a small group of people can start all over.
- I think society should be burned to the ground.
- When I think about our political and social institutions, I cannot help thinking “just let them all burn.”
- We cannot fix the problems in our social institutions, we need to tear them down and start over.
- Sometimes I just feel like destroying beautiful things.
When the echoes of similar processes across multiple individuals reinforce each other, it can add up to cascades of hostile political rumors,” conspiracy theories and fake news.
The intense hostility to political establishments of all kinds among what could be called “chaos voters” helps explain what Pew Research and others have found: a growing distrust among Republican voters of higher education as well as empirically based science, both of which are increasingly seen as allied with the liberal establishment.
“Populist movements,” “rely on inflammatory rhetoric to create a tribal ‘us versus them’ condition — this type of environment instigates neural mechanisms from the evolutionary desire to be part of the group.”
Might Trump and his loyal supporters seek to bring down the system if he is defeated in 2020? What about later, if the damage he has inflicted on our customs and norms festers, eroding the invisible structures that underpin everything that actually makes America great?
A political leader who thrives on chaos, relishes disorder and governs on the principle of narcissistic self-interest is virtually certain to find defeat intolerable. If voters deny Trump a second term, how many of his most ardent supporters, especially those with a “need for chaos,” will find defeat unbearable?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/04/opinion/trump-voters-chaos.html
No New School at Fort Campbell: The Money Went to Trump’s Border Wall
This week, the families discovered that they would not get the new middle school they were expecting so that President Trump could build his border wall. The school is on the list of 127 projects, touching nearly every facet of American military life, that will be suspended to shift $3.6 billion to the wall.
the base’s aging Mahaffey Middle School. Teachers at Mahaffey will continue to use mobile carts to store their books, lesson plans and homework assignments because there is not enough classroom space. Students stuffed into makeshift classrooms-within-classrooms will continue to strain to figure out which lesson to listen to and which one to filter out.
And since the cafeteria at Mahaffey is not big enough to seat everyone at lunchtime, some students will continue to eat in the school library.
MOSCOW MITCH
Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky and the majority leader. In a January op-ed in The Louisville Courier-Journal headlined “Here’s How Kentucky Families Benefit From McConnell’s Clout in D.C.,” Mr. McConnell boasted that he had “secured much-needed assistance for Fort Campbell, Fort Knox and the Blue Grass Army Depot, helping the men and women serving there keep America safe.”
But that was before Mr. Trump declared in February that there was a national emergency at the border with Mexico, allowing him to divert money from military projects without first getting approval from Congress. The next month, Mr. McConnell backed the president in a Senate vote on the national emergency declaration.
“President Trump has stooped to new lows in trying to illegally fund more border wall,” Representative Jim Cooper, Democrat of Tennessee, said in a statement. “Our troops and their families deserve better.”
This week, the families discovered that they would not get the new middle school they were expecting so that President Trump could build his border wall. The school is on the list of 127 projects, touching nearly every facet of American military life, that will be suspended to shift $3.6 billion to the wall.
the base’s aging Mahaffey Middle School. Teachers at Mahaffey will continue to use mobile carts to store their books, lesson plans and homework assignments because there is not enough classroom space. Students stuffed into makeshift classrooms-within-classrooms will continue to strain to figure out which lesson to listen to and which one to filter out.
And since the cafeteria at Mahaffey is not big enough to seat everyone at lunchtime, some students will continue to eat in the school library.
MOSCOW MITCH
Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky and the majority leader. In a January op-ed in The Louisville Courier-Journal headlined “Here’s How Kentucky Families Benefit From McConnell’s Clout in D.C.,” Mr. McConnell boasted that he had “secured much-needed assistance for Fort Campbell, Fort Knox and the Blue Grass Army Depot, helping the men and women serving there keep America safe.”
But that was before Mr. Trump declared in February that there was a national emergency at the border with Mexico, allowing him to divert money from military projects without first getting approval from Congress. The next month, Mr. McConnell backed the president in a Senate vote on the national emergency declaration.
“President Trump has stooped to new lows in trying to illegally fund more border wall,” Representative Jim Cooper, Democrat of Tennessee, said in a statement. “Our troops and their families deserve better.”
