***Official Political Discussion Thread***

[RustyShackleford]

https://current.org/2017/08/love-it...listening-to-public-radio/?wallit_nosession=1

Ninja was tryna look special and intellectually superior posting dem NPR links, come to find out he is just acting like a regular trucker (nothing wrong with that, just like nothing wrong with working in food service).

Then again, when I'm driving a long distance I usually listen to NPR too

 

[whywesteppin]

https://current.org/2017/08/love-it...listening-to-public-radio/?wallit_nosession=1

Ninja was tryna look special and intellectually superior posting dem NPR links, come to find out he is just acting like a regular trucker (nothing wrong with that, just like nothing wrong with working in food service).

Then again, when I'm driving a long distance I usually listen to NPR too

somebody needs to remind them that RUSH LIMBAUGH is on the radio too.

edit: but seriously, I've come to appreciate NPR too, especially on long drives. It's hard to find a sustained discussion of over 5 minutes on another station that isn't a rock shock DJ and a roomful of idiots with annoying laughs. and it's a fairly centrist station too, even when you can feel the bitterness in their voice when they have to present both sides...

 

[aepps20]

I only listen to Rush so I've never heard of this NPR or as I call it LIBBIE RADIO.

 

[AZwildcats]

https://www.gq.com/story/devos-hires-devry-dean/amp





Make sure your kids are bilingual, folks! There might not be an adequate education system in the US by the time they are ready to enter college.

This lady is a national disgrace

 

[RustyShackleford]

Days after issuing a bland statement supporting women’s equality, the Trump administration halted a key equal pay initiative on Tuesday put in place by the Obama administration.

The scrapped provision would have required employers to report aggregate information on how much they pay workers ― broken down by gender, race and ethnicity ― and would have been a critical first step in figuring out the scope of the pay gap at different companies.

Instead, the Office of Management and Budget said in a memo this week that it was halting implementation so it could review the provision, citing concerns about paperwork and privacy.

Ivanka Trump, who speaks frequently about the importance of equal pay for women and who promised last summer that her father feels similarly, issued a statement supporting the move.

“Ultimately, while I believe the intention was good and agree that pay transparency is important, the proposed policy would not yield the intended results,” Trump said on Tuesday. “We look forward to continuing to work with [Equal Employment Opportunity Commission], [the Office of Management and Budget], Congress and all relevant stakeholders on robust policies aimed at eliminating the gender wage gap.”

She offered no further explanation for the administration’s action or her endorsement of it.

Women’s groups universally decried the move.

“This is not a technical tweak as they would have you believe. Make no mistake— it’s an all-out attack on equal pay,” Fatima Goss Graves, president and CEO of the National Women’s Law Center, said in a statement on Tuesday.

“Today’s action sends a clear message to employers,” Graves added. “If you want to ignore pay inequities and sweep them under the rug, this Administration has your back.”

They also took aim at the president’s eldest daughter for betraying her purported commitment to working women.

“For somebody who has long held herself out as a champion for women and for gender equality, it’s really disappointing,” Vicki Shabo, vice president for workplace policy and strategy at the National Partnership for Women and Families, told HuffPost on Wednesday.

“[This] spits in the eye of gender equality and in the eyes of women and people of color who are so often paid less and do not know.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ivanka-trump-white-house-equal-pay_us_59a6c33be4b063ae34da471f

**** Ivanka and her complicit ***

 

[AZwildcats]

Ninja was tryna look special and intellectually superior

 

[whywesteppin]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ivanka-trump-white-house-equal-pay_us_59a6c33be4b063ae34da471f

**** Ivanka and her complicit ***

if it makes you feel any better, Ivanka is starting to age like milk. (it's making me feel better)

Spoiler: wtf is going on with her face here

you chose well though. Lahren is aging like wine.

Spoiler: Rusty with bae

edit: at donald being referred to as ivanka's "man."

 

[gry60]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/top-trump-ally-met-with-putins-deputy-in-moscow

Looks like Sheriff Clarke was also on the Russian payroll...

 

[RustyShackleford]

Even Stephen from Django would probably think that Sheriff Clarke is too big of an Uncle Tom.

I hope Mueller snipes his *** too.

 

[RustyShackleford]

if it makes you feel any better, Ivanka is starting to age like milk. (it's making me feel better)

Spoiler: wtf is going on with her face here

you chose well though. Lahren is aging like wine.

Spoiler: Rusty with bae

edit: at donald being referred to as ivanka's "man."

So y'all dudes ain't let this go I see.

 

[RIP sleazyy]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/top-trump-ally-met-with-putins-deputy-in-moscow

Looks like Sheriff Clarke was also on the Russian payroll...

Wonder if his resignation has anything to do with this investigation

 

[Mr.Guy]

I been told dudes that Ivanaka was an AWG. Dudes overhype anything with blonde hair and pink skin.

 

[AEA18]

Tim Wise from the Small Planet Institute explains how Monsanto ended up writing the national seed policy for southern African country of Malawi where most people survive on subsistence farming

 

[whywesteppin]

I been told dudes that Ivanaka was an AWG. Dudes overhype anything with blonde hair and pink skin.

given she's only ever been with Kushner and Donald, i bet you her ***** is pristine.

 

[IATT]

 

[Mr.Guy]

Some pigs are the worst? Where is adorned when you need him?

 

[aepps20]

SMH WOW.

 

[whywesteppin]

That has never been truer than today, when Congress must govern with a president who has no experience of public office, is often poorly informed and can be impulsive in his speech and conduct.

words from McCain's op-ed in wapo today.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...2a3e0c-8cfb-11e7-8df5-c2e5cf46c1e2_story.html

 

[whywesteppin]

this is appalling. not any more or less appalling than the daily expression of police brutality and racism that afflicts African-Americans every day in this country, but maybe this will open the eyes of more Americans to the problems ingrained in police culture in America.

any other profession would ostracize a fellow worker who messes up this badly at their job. but cops instead rally around each other. in doing so, they are all complicit and all share the blame. by failing to call out the bad cops, they lose my respect.

 

[gry60]

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixg...naccurate-and-it-matters-more-than-you-think/

Oh oh...

Normally, the Census Bureau spends the first six years of each decade planning the next decennial Census. The Bureau’s funding ramps up in years seven, eight and nine of the decade, when it tests and purchases its technologies, conducts a nationwide inventory of residential addresses, orders forms, letters and advertising, and begins to lease local offices and train temporary workers. It is expensive to accurately locate and count 325 million people in 126 million households (2016). That’s why, for example, Census funding jumped 96 percent from 1997 to 1998, and more than 60 percent from 2007 to 2008.

The problems began in 2014, when Congress decreed that the 2020 Decennial Census should cost no more than the 2010 count without adjusting for inflation, or some $12.5 billion. The Obama administration objected, but to no effect—although it’s worth recalling that Bill Clinton took a different tack in 1998, when he vetoed an omnibus budget bill and risked a government shutdown to get rid of a provision that would have barred the Census Bureau from using statistical sampling to verify the 2000 count.

The Census Bureau did what it had to do to live within its new budget constraints: it drew up new plans to cut costs by replacing thousands of temporary Census workers and hundreds of temporary offices with new technologies and online capacities. It also had to do what it shouldn’t have done: to save money, the Bureau aborted a planned Spanish-language test census and didn’t test or implement new ways to more accurately count people in remote and rural areas. Census also ended its plans to test a range of local outreach and messaging strategies to get people to fill out their census forms, which are crucial to minimizing undercounts in many minority and marginalized communities.

Even so, the Census Bureau prepared to ramp up funding in 2017 and 2018, as it normally did, under the $12.5 billion cap. Enter the Trump administration, which cut the Obama administration’s 2017 budget request for the Census Bureau by 10 percent and then, this past April, flat-lined the funding for 2018. It is no coincidence that the Director of the Census Bureau, John Thompson, resigned in May, effective in June. It’s a serious loss, since Dr. Thompson directed the 2000 decennial count and is probably the most able person available to contain the coming damage to the 2020 count. For its part, the administration hasn’t even identified, much less nominated, his successor. It is no surprise that the Government Accountability Office recently designated the 2020 Census as one of a handful of federal programs at “High Risk” of failure.

The costs of starving the decennial Census could be great. It not only paints the country’s changing demographic and geographic portrait every 10 years. Its state-by-state counts determine how the 435 members of the House of Representatives are allocated among the states, and its counts by “Census block” (roughly a neighborhood) shape how members of state legislatures and many city councils are allocated in those jurisdictions. That’s just the beginning.

Consider as well that every year, the federal government distributes about $600 billion in funds to state and local governments for education, Medicaid and other health programs, highways, housing, law enforcement and much more. To do so, the government uses formulas with terms for each area’s level of education, income or poverty rate, racial and family composition, and more. The decennial Census provides the baseline for those distributions by counting the people with each of those characteristics in each state and Census block. Similarly, the Census Bureau conducts scores of additional surveys every year on behalf of most domestic departments of government, to help them assess the effectiveness of their programs. Here again, the decennial Census provides the baseline for measuring each program’s progress or lack of it.

Without an accurate Census, many states and cities will be denied the full funding they deserve and need, and the federal government will have to fly blind for a decade across a range of important areas.Moreover, many businesses also rely on decennial data, from retailers and commercial real estate developers to the banks that finance them. Data on the demographics and locations of potential customers not only inform their planning and investments. In some cases, the data actually make their projects possible, for example, when an investment qualifies for special tax treatment if it occurs in places with certain concentrations of low or moderate-income households.

The Trump administration’s cavalier approach to the 2020 decennial Census is evident in ways other than its funding deficit. A draft executive order, leaked but not issued so far, would direct the Census Bureau, for the first time in over 200 years, to “include questions to determine U.S. citizenship and immigration status.” The Census Bureau is legally required to protect the privacy of all Census data from requests by anyone, including government officials and it is forbidden by law to pass information about status on to the government agencies that deport people. Unsurprisingly, many people remain skeptical and avoid answering the Census out of fear that other government agencies will access their information. Requiring that Census 2020 probe each respondent’s citizenship and immigration status would turbo-charge those fears among Hispanics and other immigrant groups. The result would be systemic undercounting and underfunding of states, cities and towns with substantial populations of Hispanics and other immigrants.

"What do you have to lose?"

How about representation?

 

[IATT]

 

[Mark Antony]

I don't mean it like it will come across, but i'm glad it's a white lady this time. It will resonate with more people when the victim looks like them.

 

[iamdef]

any other profession would ostracize a fellow worker who messes up this badly at their job. but cops instead rally around each other. in doing so, they are all complicit and all share the blame. by failing to call out the bad cops, they lose my respect.

This is the worst part about these events. We aren't asking for immediate execution, just admission of fault and a reasonable punishment.

If I lie to a customer at my job and make an assumption about what they will do that creates a bigger mess than necessary, I'd be fired practically on the spot and replaced within a small time while the customer will get a dozen apologies and a swag bag or two to make up for the trouble.
These dudes mess up and kill people and most they get is a few days at home to delete their current social media profiles and start new ones to avoid those meanies online

 

[gry60]

That has never been truer than today, when Congress must govern with a president who has no experience of public office, is often poorly informed and can be impulsive in his speech and conduct.

words from McCain's op-ed in wapo today.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...2a3e0c-8cfb-11e7-8df5-c2e5cf46c1e2_story.html

**** McCain. He can put his op-ed where the sun don't shine.

His words won't erase the fact that he voted "yes" to confirm the current cabinet. He brought us Sarah Palin and validated the crazy right. Now he wants to talk about compromise?

 

[iamdef]

I don't mean it like it will come across, but i'm glad it's a white lady this time. It will resonate with more people when the victim looks like them.

If she was black she would have needed to come completely silent and calm so she could almost look innocent to the public. Even then they'd say she probably gave him attitude and was being disrespectful which caused the officer to over step the law