It’s funny because under the new Republican Party, this is EXACTLY the kind of politicians The conservative base wants running for office: hardcore right wing, conspiracy theories, racist, xenophobic, and more importantly, loyal to trump.
She fits the mold perfectly. No wonder she already has an endorsement from a republican congressmen.
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
Anyone see where Warren forget she sent her kid to a private school, or did she outright lie..again?
Who cares? Trump lies almost every word he speaks, and you're worried about that? I'm sure the little Trumps didn't go to public school, being as they are elite and all. It's not like Trump was ever one of us.
Anyone see where Warren forget she sent her kid to a private school, or did she outright lie..again?
Who cares? Trump lies almost every word he speaks, and you're worried about that? I'm sure the little Trumps didn't go to public school, being as they are elite and all. It's not like Trump was ever one of us.
I don't care if her kids went to public school or private school. I do care that she is lying about it.
The difference between Jesus and religion Religion mocks you for having dirty feet Jesus gets down on his knees and washes them
I do, and I am deeply offended by them. But that wasn't part of the post I was addressing. I try not to confuse a point by adding in things I think are not directly related to the point or post I am addressing.
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The difference between Jesus and religion Religion mocks you for having dirty feet Jesus gets down on his knees and washes them
Anyone see where Warren forget she sent her kid to a private school, or did she outright lie..again?
Warren has lied multiple times trying to appeal to "ordinary people and minorities"... Makes her look pretty silly... Sad thing is, she didn't have to.
Biden has paved the way, using his political status, for his reprobate son...
Kamala Harris out there openly not giving a damn about the constitution in her speeches...
there should be much to be critical about with the dems right now... unfortunately, in a room where honesty and integrity is the conversation, Donald Trump is justifiably the only target that really matters.
DOJ workers call out Barr over Supreme Court arguments against LGBT protections
A group of employees at the Department of Justice (DOJ) are raising concerns with Attorney General William Barr after the agency argued in front of the Supreme Court that LGBT workers are not protected by civil rights laws against employment discrimination.
DOJ Pride, a group representing LGBT Justice Department employees, wrote a letter to Barr dated Friday saying that the administration's stance on Title VII of the Civil Rights Act had a "clear and negative impact on employee morale."
"Every response but one reflected concern, dismay, and even distress about the cases," the group wrote. "Various respondents told us they believe that the Department does not support its LGBTQ workforce, that the Department thinks LGBTQ people do not need or deserve anti-discrimination protections, that the Department will be less able to recruit and retain talented employees, that Department employees will be less comfortable coming out at work, and that the Department’s litigating positions set back the Department’s mission of promoting justice, fairness, and equality."
Last month, Solicitor General Noel Francisco appeared before the Supreme Court to argue against the plaintiffs in a handful of cases that will decide whether workers can be discriminated against based upon their sexual orientation or gender identity.
The Justice Department's position is that the language in the Civil Rights Act protecting workers from discrimination on the basis of "sex" offers no protections for gay or transgender employees.
“The issue is not whether Congress can or should prohibit employment discrimination because of sexual orientation,” Francisco said during last month's oral arguments. “The issue, rather, is whether it did so when it prohibited discrimination because of sex.”
In April, Barr issued a statement saying that gender identity and sexual orientation will be protected under the Justice Department's equal employment opportunity policy.
DOJ Pride asked the attorney general to reaffirm that commitment regardless of what the Supreme Court decides is protected under law. And the group asked Barr to advocate for legislation that would protect gay and transgender workers in the event the court rules that they are not covered under current civil rights laws.
"As you know, the tone you set at the top reverberates far and wide, so we believe that these actions would have a meaningful, positive impact on the morale of the Department’s LGBTQ employees, and would reinforce that we are not second-class employees at the Department of Justice," the letter reads.
A spokeswoman for the Justice Department did not respond when asked for comment.
MUST WATCH! The first minute and a half or so, this is so scripted to hit all the propaganda points! Cracks me up that he says 99% of all media is a fake news mob. If you say everybody else and I mean everybody else is lying but you are telling the truth, that usually means you are the one lying.
Trump at rally vows to supporters no name change for 'Thanksgiving'
President Trump claimed at his rally Tuesday night that some people want to rename Thanksgiving, telling supporters "we're not changing it."
"You know, some people want to change the name Thanksgiving," Trump told the crowd in Sunrise, Fla., without offering specifics. “They don’t want to use the term 'Thanksgiving.'”
“And that was true also with Christmas, but now everybody’s using Christmas again. Remember I said that?” he continued, echoing a common refrain from past rallies.
In the early months of his 2016 presidential campaign, Trump promised supporters to push back against the so-called “war on Christmas” and pledged to “say ‘merry Christmas’ again.”
“I’m a good Christian. If I become president, we’re gonna be saying ‘merry Christmas’ at every store,” Trump said in 2015.
Since taking office, the president has continued to voice his support for the holiday, and extended his remarks to the Thanksgiving holiday as well.
“Now we’re going to have do little work on Thanksgiving,” Trump said later in his remarks on Tuesday night. “People have different ideas why it shouldn’t be called Thanksgiving.”
“But everybody in this room, I know, loves the name Thanksgiving, and we’re not changing it,” he added.
Shortly after the rally on Tuesday evening, the hashtag “#WhatLiberalsCallThanksgiving” surged to the top of Twitter’s trending items, with critics using the remark to knock the president.
Remember guys, us libs are apparently waging a war against thanksgiving now!!!
Conservatives claim us libs are snowflakes, yet they never miss an opportunity to play victim.
The natives should’ve shoved a drum stick down y’all throats 300 years ago.
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
I don't generally consider myself a snowflake, but I do get triggered (for lack of a better word) when I see Christmas stuff in stores practically at the strike of midnight after Halloween.
"I'll take your word at face value. I have never met you but I assume you have a face..lol"
i remember one time when i was young, my homies and i were getting ready to go trick or treating, and then out of nowhere, i was forced to go to church on halloween instead.
still salty about that.
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
i remember one time when i was young, my homies and i were getting ready to go trick or treating, and then out of nowhere, i was forced to go to church on halloween instead.
still salty about that.
::hug::
"I'll take your word at face value. I have never met you but I assume you have a face..lol"
President Trump arrives in Afghanistan for surprise Thanksgiving visit with troops
A 13-hour overnight trip on Air Force One.
"There's nowhere I'd rather spend Thanksgiving than with the toughest, fiercest warriors," Trump said. "I'm here to say Happy Thanksgiving and thank you very much. As president of the United States, I have no higher honor than serving as commander-in-chief."
really glad he went. presidents showing up in combat zones, regardless of party, does boost the morale for that time.
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
President Trump arrives in Afghanistan for surprise Thanksgiving visit with troops
A 13-hour overnight trip on Air Force One.
"There's nowhere I'd rather spend Thanksgiving than with the toughest, fiercest warriors," Trump said. "I'm here to say Happy Thanksgiving and thank you very much. As president of the United States, I have no higher honor than serving as commander-in-chief."
How Trump’s Thanksgiving Afghanistan trip was kept under wraps amid extreme security
President Trump surprised troops and news outlets on Thanksgiving morning when he appeared in Afghanistan to thank troops for their service to the country and help serve a turkey dinner -- but doing so required extreme security measures to ensure both safety and to prevent the word from getting out.
But in order to make the visit, intense security and a host of other measures were required to ensure the news didn’t leak. The journey began Wednesday, where Trump snuck out of Mar-a-Lago.
Many of the details of how he did so are a secret, but the president flew out of an undisclosed airport in Florida on a small, also undisclosed, plane Wednesday evening.
On that flight bound for Joint Base Andrews, in Maryland, there was only one Fox News journalist, who was serving as the pool reporter. The plane was bare-bones, except for four blue leather chairs and a port-a-potty that had been brought for the occasion.
As part of the security measures phones were taken from all onboard, including senior White House officials. Trump greeted the crew but remained in the cockpit for takeoff.
When the plane landed in Joint Base Andrews later Wednesday evening, Trump switched to Air Force One — which was not lit up on the tarmac, but was instead hidden in a hangar. It took off from JBA with all interior lights off and the windows drawn.
The plane landed in Afghanistan on a pitch-black runway, while the pool was only allowed to take pictures of Trump’s arrival from a nearby van. Accompanying Trump was White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham, Acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney, National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien, Deputy Press Secretary Judd Deere, and Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo.
Grisham said that only a tight circle of White House officials knew about the trip, and the White House even scheduled tweets to be sent out from the president’s account during the Internet blackout that he faced.
“It’s a dangerous area and he (the President) wants to support the troops,” Grisham said. “He and Mrs. Trump recognize that there is a lot of people who are away from their families during the holidays and we thought it would be a nice surprise.”
It certainly was a surprise to the troops, the public and the media -- catching some outlets completely flat-footed. Newsweek had to overhaul an article that it had earlier posted that reported the president would spend the day tweeting and playing golf.
After serving and eventually sitting down for a Thanksgiving dinner -- that included turkey, mashed potatoes, cornbread, baked ham, mac and cheese, cornish hen and candied yams -- Trump took as many pictures as time would allow with troops.
He then met with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani. Due to security concerns, the White House notified Ghani only “a few hours ago,” according to the White House.
Trump then finished his trip by addressing a few hundred cheering troops in the hangar on the airfield, bringing Ghani on the stage to also express his appreciation to the American troops. Trump told them that everyone was working hard to bring them back home.
“We will continue to work tirelessly for the day when all of you can go home to your families … and that day is coming very soon,” he said.
While I'm happy to see him lift the morale of the Troops on Thanksgiving , 40, and give him props for doing that, I can't help but think he has ulterior motives for doing something far from his norms.
He recently got involved in the military with his pardons and interference in that seal's case. It created controversy but it played well for Trump's base and took attention off the impeachment for a day or two. Trump realized that. So when he suddenly and unexpectedly makes a trip there on Thanksgiving, I can't help but see how he thinks this helps him too.
But I probably wouldn't feel this way if he had constantly done things like this OR hadn't tried to rip off the vets fund he raised. You see, I don't think he gives a damn about anybody but the guy in his mirror and his kids, period. He cares about his base as long as they fawn over him and back his plays BUT if he really cared he wouldn't do half the crap he's done AND not done to help those same people. His tax cuts didn't help normal folks, killing Obamacare isn't helping normal folks, his trade war isn't helping normal folks, his wall isn't helping normal folks, his lies about great jobs coming back aren't helping normal folks... And he doesn't care.
So forgive me when I look at this good act with suspicion and doubt.
Poll: Majority of Republicans say Trump better president than Lincoln
A majority of Republicans say President Trump is a better leader than former President Abraham Lincoln, according to this week’s Economist/YouGov weekly tracking poll.
Fifty-three percent of Republicans said Trump was a better president when compared to Lincoln, while 47 percent chose the Civil War-era leader.
Lincoln still overwhelmingly beats Trump among all Americans, 75 percent to 25 percent, with the vast majority of Democrats and Independents choosing the former president.
While impeachment and other controversies surrounding Trump continue to dominate headlines, polls have shown the president maintaining a strong approval rating among Republicans.
The Economist/YouGov poll found that 87 percent of those in the GOP either somewhat or strongly approve of the job he’s doing as president.
Trump in the past has boasted of his approval rating within the party, comparing it to Lincoln.
“You know, a poll just came out that I am the most popular person in the history of the Republican Party,” Trump said in a July interview with The Sun newspaper in the U.K.
“Beating Lincoln,” Trump added, without clarifying to which poll he was referring. “I beat our Honest Abe.”
The Economist/YouGov weekly tracking poll surveyed 1,500 Americans from Nov. 24-26 and has a margin of error of 2.8 percent.
2 Men Stockpiled Guns and Far-Right Propaganda in New Jersey. Are They Alone? The New York Times Ali Watkins and Nick Corasaniti,The New York Times 20 hours ago
Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) speaks to a server as she takes a break at Tom Sawyer Diner in Paramus, N.J., on Friday, Sept. 27, 2019. (Bryan Anselm/The New York Times)
NEWTON, N.J. — New Jersey investigators were looking into a routine complaint from a woman who said her ex-boyfriend was harassing her when they uncovered something far more dire: The 25-year-old man had stockpiled weapons and far-right propaganda and had talked about shooting up a hospital.
Two months later, New Jersey State Police responding to a crash in the same county discovered illegal assault weapons in the back seat of a van. Later, they found 17 more firearms, a grenade launcher and neo-Nazi paraphernalia in the driver’s home.
The arrests of the two men rocked law enforcement officials in Sussex County, raising fears that far-right extremism had crept into this sleepy, rural area in New Jersey.
It is impossible to know if the two arrests so close together are a fluke or signal of a growing white supremacist movement in the county, law enforcement officials said. The two men appear to have no connection to each other.
Sussex has lately been seeing ugly signs of increasing racism and anti-Semitism. Vandals have scrawled swastikas in schools, and in a highly publicized incident last fall, supporters of a Jewish congressman found their Sussex County home vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti.
Bias-related crimes rose from four in 2016, when President Donald Trump was elected, to seven in 2018, prosecutors said. Although the numbers are small, officials say the general upward trend is troubling in a county of only 141,000 people and reflects similar increases across the state.
“One hundred percent certainty, the numbers of reports have increased,” said New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal. “I can’t say that belief system is isolated to Sussex. We’ve seen it in all parts of the state.”
At the same time, there has been a rise in right-wing extremism across the country. White supremacists and other far-right extremists have killed more people than any other category of domestic extremist in the past 18 years. In August, for example, a white supremacist targeting Mexicans killed 22 in a Walmart in El Paso, Texas.
Only recently have federal law enforcement officials come to grips with that threat, and local prosecutors like those in Sussex County have often found themselves doing investigations they are ill-equipped to undertake.
Law enforcement officials said neither of the men arrested in Suffolk County had contact with other white supremacists in the area. Instead, they appear to have been independently radicalized.
Gregory Mueller, an assistant prosecutor in Newton, New Jersey, said it is highly likely there are others with a similar ideology in Sussex County, but he is not sure how to find them. His investigators lack the expertise to ferret them out.
Until recently, for instance, Mueller and his team were not familiar with an image found on one suspect’s social media profiles: Pepe the Frog, a widely recognized, racist meme used by the far right.
For now, the county has just one computer forensics expert, Detective Marty Lewis, who spends nights and weekends trawling far-right internet forums for clues.
“City departments get so many resources from the feds to track these groups,” Mueller said. “We have Marty down in the basement.”
Sussex as a case study
Tucked along New Jersey’s western border, Sussex County is rural and mostly white, although over the past five years there has been a small but steady increase in the number of immigrants living there. Trump easily carried the county in 2016.
For roughly a century, the county was a conservative stronghold, the anchor of New Jersey’s reliably Republican 5th Congressional District. But redistricting in 2010 added towns from the heavily Democratic eastern part of the state, and in 2016, the district elected a moderate Democrat, Josh Gottheimer, to Congress.
He is the first Democrat to hold the seat since 1933. Not long after he was elected, his office was spray-painted with swastikas. The incident was part of a troubling rise in anti-Semitic, racist and far-right graffiti, county officials said.
The phenomenon tracked with what was happening across the country after the 2016 election in counties with similar demographics.
In the first two quarters of 2019, there was a 40% increase in anti-Semitic incidents compared with the same period in 2016, according to statistics provided by the Anti-Defamation League.
“I think the national rhetoric is not helping,” said Jared Maples, the director of the New Jersey Office of Homeland Security. “That discourse leads to people feeling disenfranchised and on the fringe and again, empowered, maybe, to make their voices heard about the hate that they kind of espouse and believe in.”
Gottheimer has been repeatedly targeted with graffiti — during the midterm election a supporter’s lawn sign was covered in Nazi symbols — but the most frequent targets have been the district’s schools: Swastikas have been found at schools in Glen Rock, Ridgewood, Emerson and the Pascack Valley.
Gottheimer noted that other hate groups like the Oath Keepers and the Ku Klux Klan were gaining a foothold in his district. “The concern is those acts of hate are the embers and then they begin to get radicalized,” he said.
‘They’re there. We just don’t know who they are.’
Law enforcement officials said that Michael Zaremski, the 25-year-old arrested after his ex-girlfriend complained of harassment, appears to be a prime example of the self-radicalized threat they fear may cause damage in the future.
“They’re there,” said Lewis, the computer forensics expert. “We just don’t know who they are.”
Zaremski was an emergency medical technician who frequented white supremacist forums online and had a trove of neo-Nazi literature. He was caught only because he sent a photo of his ex-girlfriend wearing parts of a Nazi uniform to her employer, officials said.
The police later discovered that he had made videos set in New Jersey that mimicked, shot-by-shot, the first minutes of the live-streamed massacre of Muslims by a right-wing terrorist in Christchurch, New Zealand. He had also stockpiled automatic weapons, each with the same markings on the gun magazines as those of the Christchurch shooter, according to sources familiar with the investigation.
Indeed, Zaremski was so obsessed with the mass shooting in New Zealand that he made his former girlfriend watch the video of the shooting repeatedly, investigators said. He also affixed a “Right Wing Death Squad” patch to his EMT jacket.
Law enforcement officials discovered material on his computer that suggested he was curious about committing a mass shooting at a hospital.
The way Zaremski became radicalized has become the new normal, law enforcement officials and experts on hate groups said. More and more alienated young people are adopting extreme ideologies in online forums and chat rooms, rather than joining traditional groups like the Ku Klux Klan.
“The online world is just as important to us as looking at real world activities,” said Heidi Beirich, the director of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s intelligence project, which tracks hate groups. “There’s essentially no distinction. And rooting people out from an online perspective is a very difficult thing for law enforcement, because you don’t have a group to infiltrate.”
An intelligence gap
Unlike Zaremski, Joseph Rubino, the 57-year-old man arrested after he crashed his van on a country road, appeared to have been on the radar of federal law enforcement for some time before he was taken into custody in August, one law enforcement official said.
A lapsed member of a motorcycle gang, Rubino was believed to be selling homemade semi-automatic guns and handing out far-right propaganda at gun shows in the region, officials said.
Still, Rubino was never arrested by federal agents.
Instead, he was picked up by the state police, who arrived at the scene of the crash in August and spotted banned firearms in the back seat of the wrecked van, according to court documents. A subsequent search of Rubino’s home turned up a grenade launcher, 17 semi-automatic weapons and racist and anti-Semitic materials.
Rubino was charged in federal court with possessing illegal weapons. Had he not wrecked his car, Mueller said, Rubino might still be frequenting gun shows.
“If you look at how we were able to arrest Zaremski and Rubino, they were both by happenstance,” said Mueller. “It’s not like we had this massive yearlong investigation and these were the two that we found.”
A wider problem
Sussex County’s quandary is a symptom of a bigger issue, years in the making: The FBI no longer has a deep reservoir of intelligence on far-right threats, current and former law enforcement officials say.
For years, there was a de facto policy within the Justice Department to defer prosecutions of far-right groups to state and local authorities, as the FBI shifted resources toward Islamic terrorism after the Sept. 11 attacks, said Michael German, a former FBI officer who worked undercover inside white supremacist groups in the 1990s and early 2000s.
It was not until recently, as the threat from right-wing extremism flourished and the threat from Islamic extremism waned, that the flaws in that strategy became clear. Deferring those cases to local authorities meant there was no longer a national repository of data and information on far-right groups, German said.
“It means the federal government loses all that intelligence,” he said. “If there was a crime in Des Moines, Iowa, and a crime in Springfield, Illinois, and a crime in Minnesota, they might never know that those crimes are actually connected.”
Zaremski was engaging regularly with other far-right ideologues, Mueller said, but none of them appeared to be within Sussex County’s jurisdiction, or even the state’s. Pursuing such cases would require help from federal law enforcement.
“They do assist,” Mueller said of the FBI and other agencies. “But it typically will take us reaching out to them on a case or person.”
Grewal, the state attorney general, has revised bias and hate crime standards and is encouraging prosecutors to report any suspicious activity. Since that directive, the reports have increased by 300% across the state.
“In the wake of Parkland, we saw that there were gaps in reporting,” he said, referring to the school shooting near Miami that left 17 dead.
But local law enforcement is still behind in infiltrating right-wing groups, Grewal said. It is essential, he said, to “empower people who might come into contact with these individuals” to report them. It was a tip from a girlfriend, he noted, that led to Zaremski’s arrest.
“I definitely feel for these prosecutors,” German said. “The lack of attention the FBI has put on this has created a deeper intelligence deficit where even the FBI doesn’t understand these groups anymore.”
President Trump’s approval rating among business owners hits all-time high: Survey
Sixty percent of small business owners approve of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president, the highest approval rating number since CNBC and SurveyMonkey began its quarterly Small Business Survey in 2017.
so US manufacturing continues its contraction, but hey, those businesses got their tax cut so ofcourse they approve of trump.
income inequality continues to worsen, manufacturing contracting, farmers pissed off at trumps continued trade war, constantly dangling this "phase one" nonsense, farmers continue to get SOCIALISM from the republican just to stay afloat.
consumer debt is skyrocketing, corporate debt is skyrocketing.
but hey, since the 1% got their tax cut and tons of cash in their pocket, its all good, according to 40.
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
the 1-2 minute podcast is pure gold. smh 
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