That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons bring us some web forums whereupon we can gather
http://garbi.online/forum/
And after all he's done for them. Shameful.ImLawBoy wrote: Fri Dec 22, 2017 4:18 pm If you think that's bad, my son's school didn't have a Christmas play, didn't have any Christmas decorations, and didn't have any kind of Christmas party.
I mean, it's a Jewish school, but still . . . .
The layoffs have stunned these steelworkers who, just a year ago, greeted President Trump’s election as a new dawn for their industry. Mr. Trump pledged to build roads and bridges, strengthen “Buy America” provisions, protect factories from unfair imports and revive industry, especially steel. But after a year in office, Mr. Trump has not enacted these policies. And when it comes to steel, his failure to follow through on a promise has actually done more harm than good.
Foreign steel makers have rushed to get their product into the United States before tariffs start. According to the American Iron and Steel Institute, which tracks shipments, steel imports were 19.4 percent higher in the first 10 months of 2017 than in the same period last year. That surge of imports has hurt American steel makers, which were already struggling against a glut of cheap Chinese steel.
The only place it's happening is in the minds of Fox News viewers. Just like transgender child molesters stalking public bathrooms, it's a made up problem designed to rile the base against an invisible boogeyman. It's quite literally the only play in the modern GOP playbook.Lawbeefaroni wrote:Pretty much the same here. I'm wondering where this war is taking place. I guess Starbucks. Oh no!
The United States Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit has ruled that Trump’s travel ban, the third he has proposed since becoming president, is illegal.
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The court issued a limited injunction blocking the ban as it applies to “foreign nationals who have a bona fide relationship with a person or entity in the United States.”
For two decades, the commander in chief has doled out distinguished-looking coins as personal mementos. Now, the presidential “challenge coin” has undergone a Trumpian transformation.
The presidential seal has been replaced by an eagle bearing President Trump’s signature. The eagle’s head faces right, not left, as on the seal. The 13 arrows representing the original states have disappeared. And the national motto, “E pluribus unum” — a Latin phrase that means “Out of many, one” — is gone.
Instead, both sides of the coin feature Trump’s campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again.”
The changes don’t stop there. In addition to his signature, Trump’s name appears three times on the coin, which is thicker than those made for past presidents. And forget the traditional subdued silver and copper: Trump’s coin, a White House aide marveled, is “very gold.”
The aide said the president, whose real estate properties are known for their gilded displays of wealth and status, was personally involved in redesigning the coin. Trump, who also had a hand in creating his famous red campaign hat, “wanted to weigh in on it,” the aide said. “It’s beautifully made.”
According to six officials who attended or were briefed about the meeting, Mr. Trump then began reading aloud from the document, which his domestic policy adviser, Stephen Miller, had given him just before the meeting. The document listed how many immigrants had received visas to enter the United States in 2017.
More than 2,500 were from Afghanistan, a terrorist haven, the president complained.
Haiti had sent 15,000 people. They “all have AIDS,” he grumbled, according to one person who attended the meeting and another person who was briefed about it by a different person who was there.
Forty thousand had come from Nigeria, Mr. Trump added. Once they had seen the United States, they would never “go back to their huts” in Africa, recalled the two officials, who asked for anonymity to discuss a sensitive conversation in the Oval Office.
"Their huts?" Nigeria is probably the most advanced economy in Africa, or at least is tied with Egypt and South Africa.Smoove_B wrote: Sat Dec 23, 2017 5:08 pm Forty thousand had come from Nigeria, Mr. Trump added. Once they had seen the United States, they would never “go back to their huts” in Africa, recalled the two officials, who asked for anonymity to discuss a sensitive conversation in the Oval Office.
It isn't entirely pointless - it is a record of his racism. As much as I bash on them the NY Times is still a paper of record and more evidence is better than no evidence. At this point they are pretty much writing this for the future. Someday people will deconstruct how this time came to be and hopefully figure out a way to stop it from every happening again.Freyland wrote: Sat Dec 23, 2017 6:34 pm Really don't see why they wrote that into their article. They use anonymous sources, so when the wh denies, it just looks like a false article. His critics already know he is racist and his followers just get fed more high-grade Fake News propaganda. Pointless.
I'm legitimately starting to wonder which government institutions might actually be left standing after this asshole is through. Jesus Christ.How can FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, the man in charge, along with leakin’ James Comey, of the Phony Hillary Clinton investigation (including her 33,000 illegally deleted emails) be given $700,000 for wife’s campaign by Clinton Puppets during investigation?
It's easier to set oneself up as Emperor when all the pillars preventing one from doing so are gone.Skinypupy wrote: Sat Dec 23, 2017 8:15 pm Aaaaaaand, the POTUS just publicly accused the Deputy Director of the FBI of taking bribes. Awesome.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/sta ... 17415?s=17
I'm legitimately starting to wonder which government institutions might actually be left standing after this asshole is through. Jesus Christ.How can FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, the man in charge, along with leakin’ James Comey, of the Phony Hillary Clinton investigation (including her 33,000 illegally deleted emails) be given $700,000 for wife’s campaign by Clinton Puppets during investigation?
Pres. Obama is about to embark on a 17 day vacation in his ‘native’ Hawaii, putting Secret Service away from families on Christmas. Aloha!
It's not a record of his racism if it's "heresay". Not sourced, then just fuel for the fake news engine.malchior wrote: Sat Dec 23, 2017 6:42 pmIt isn't entirely pointless - it is a record of his racism. As much as I bash on them the NY Times is still a paper of record and more evidence is better than no evidence. At this point they are pretty much writing this for the future. Someday people will deconstruct how this time came to be and hopefully figure out a way to stop it from every happening again.Freyland wrote: Sat Dec 23, 2017 6:34 pm Really don't see why they wrote that into their article. They use anonymous sources, so when the wh denies, it just looks like a false article. His critics already know he is racist and his followers just get fed more high-grade Fake News propaganda. Pointless.
It's anonymously reported - not anonymously sourced. That's a very different standard. This has been the standard for a *long* time. This is why "fake news" is so dangerous. It is an attempt to undermine the ability to speak truth to power.Freyland wrote: Sun Dec 24, 2017 1:45 amIt's not a record of his racism if it's "heresay". Not sourced, then just fuel for the fake news engine.malchior wrote: Sat Dec 23, 2017 6:42 pmIt isn't entirely pointless - it is a record of his racism. As much as I bash on them the NY Times is still a paper of record and more evidence is better than no evidence. At this point they are pretty much writing this for the future. Someday people will deconstruct how this time came to be and hopefully figure out a way to stop it from every happening again.Freyland wrote: Sat Dec 23, 2017 6:34 pm Really don't see why they wrote that into their article. They use anonymous sources, so when the wh denies, it just looks like a false article. His critics already know he is racist and his followers just get fed more high-grade Fake News propaganda. Pointless.
*I* agree with you, but the semantics will be lost on people when NOT-anonymously sourced individuals "in the know" like Kelly, etc claim it was not said (even if the claim comes by proxy of evil WH spokeswoman), which has already happened. It just further discredits the reliable news source even if they are spot on.malchior wrote: Sun Dec 24, 2017 7:35 amIt's anonymously reported - not anonymously sourced. That's a very different standard. This has been the standard for a *long* time. This is why "fake news" is so dangerous. It is an attempt to undermine the ability to speak truth to power.Freyland wrote: Sun Dec 24, 2017 1:45 amIt's not a record of his racism if it's "heresay". Not sourced, then just fuel for the fake news engine.malchior wrote: Sat Dec 23, 2017 6:42 pmIt isn't entirely pointless - it is a record of his racism. As much as I bash on them the NY Times is still a paper of record and more evidence is better than no evidence. At this point they are pretty much writing this for the future. Someday people will deconstruct how this time came to be and hopefully figure out a way to stop it from every happening again.Freyland wrote: Sat Dec 23, 2017 6:34 pm Really don't see why they wrote that into their article. They use anonymous sources, so when the wh denies, it just looks like a false article. His critics already know he is racist and his followers just get fed more high-grade Fake News propaganda. Pointless.
Yep. Turning Christmas into a pissing match completely ignores the Reason for the Season. They don't want to generously celebrate the forgiveness of sin by self-sacrifice, but rather desire to blame others and inflict injury on those they believe slighted them. They follow the example of Pilate, Herod and the Jewish priests, not Christ.Isgrimnur wrote:Tell them, “Jesus loves you. But everyone else thinks you’re an asshole. “
They're not sending their best. They're bringing crime. They're Papists. And some, I assume, are good people.Isgrimnur wrote:That’s something a dirty Papist would say.
Yes, but don't forget we were under the Obama Mandate, where anyone caught saying "Merry Christmas" was subject to a $20,000 fine and up to 6 months in prison.pr0ner wrote: Mon Dec 25, 2017 5:07 pm Because all this Merry Christmas stuff is clearly Trump pandering to his base, entry #1225 in "There is a Trump tweet for everything":
https://www.twitter.com/realdonaldtrump ... 1264115714
Three things:Skinypupy wrote:Literally every action the man takes runs counter to Christian principles, yet they still hold him up as a paragon of spiritual virtue. I honestly can’t understand it at all.
It would be funny if it weren’t so pathetic.
NPR: Why Trump Continues to Forge an Unlikely Bond with Religious ConservativesSkinypupy wrote: Tue Dec 26, 2017 11:13 am Literally every action the man takes runs counter to Christian principles, yet they still hold him up as a paragon of spiritual virtue. I honestly can’t understand it at all.
Wny do evangelicals continue to support Trump?
So it surprises some to see how readily many committed church people flock to his standard. But the explanation is both simple and neat. It is not that evangelicals think Trump is one of them, but rather that they believe he is being used by God.
As the Bible says, "By their fruits ye shall know them" (Matthew 7:20) and so far Trump's crop has looked pretty good.
The reasoning then follows like this: Trump may not seem worthy as an instrument of the Lord's will, but that judgment is not ours to make but belongs to Someone Else. So as long as Trump seems to be doing the Lord's work, Trump will be just fine with the people of the Lord.
Why do evangelicals care about the Jews and Israel?
Trump, though, seems more focused on the view of those conservative Christians who see this step as fulfilling a key biblical prophecy. In this view, Jerusalem needs to be available as the site of the Third Temple, a necessary precondition for the End Times or Last Things that are essential to many fundamentalist Christians' faith.
This is where the water gets a little deep, so we won't wade in too far. But suffice it to say that at some point in time, according to various passages in the Bible, Jews will be in possession of Jerusalem and a new temple will be erected. Thereafter will come the Antichrist and a period to be known as the Tribulation. It gets harrowing, but, cutting to the chase, Christ himself will return to Earth in triumph and glory and all true believers will be united with him in Heaven.
It's weird but to my untrained eye, they seem to be trying to prepare for it by bringing it about. Trump is like some sort of nationalization or David Koresch, where "drinking the KoolAid" is a bit too close to being literal for my comfort.a necessary precondition for the End Times
