Cont: The Trump Presidency Part III

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Stacko said:
Citing The Bible, The EPA Just Changed Its Rules For Science Advisors
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Don't be distracted by the Bible reference. The real measure allows scientists paid for by regulated companies to dominate serving on advisory boards because they don't receive EPA grants while scientists receiving the grants, aka scientists working without conflicts of interest, may not sit on the advisory boards.

So either the point is to limit EPA grants or limit input from science advisors researching the ill-effects of pollution.
 
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I cannot wait for all the writeups explaining the difference between trump's Vegas response and his new York response. the difference in his tweets has been offensive.
 
President Trump cannot help lying....

He wants to scrap the green card lottery and blames Chuck Schumer for blocking an earlier attempt to scrap it. The trouble is, and as Jeff Flake points out, that accusation is simply not true:

Jeff Flake said:
Actually, the Gang of 8, including @SenSchumer, did away with the Diversity Visa Program as part of broader reforms. I know, I was there
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It was the Republican-controlled House of Representatives that allowed that bill to die.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-41825340

Chuck Schumer was involved in the original 1990 legislation but that was a bi-partisan bill and was signed into law by George H W Bush.
 
The Don said:
President Trump cannot help lying....

He wants to scrap the green card lottery and blames Chuck Schumer for blocking an earlier attempt to scrap it. The trouble is, and as Jeff Flake points out, that accusation is simply not true:



It was the Republican-controlled House of Representatives that allowed that bill to die.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-41825340

Chuck Schumer was involved in the original 1990 legislation but that was a bi-partisan bill and was signed into law by George H W Bush.
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Not a lie in this case. Apparently he was just mouthing off about something he heard on fox and friends around that time.
 
JK Rowling's response to Donald Jnr's halloween tweet ("I’m going to take half of Chloe’s candy tonight & give it to some kid who sat at home. It’s never to early to teach her about socialism.") is quite epic.

JKR: "Fill her bucket with old candy left by her great-grandfather, then explain that she has more because she's smarter than all the other kids"

There were plenty of spiky responses to Donald Jnr, as you'd imagine.
 
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Spindrift said:
How do you know Trump doesn't know it's a lie?
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We don't, but unless he knew it was false, he didn't lie.

That said, as President, his words matter and even if he didn't know it was false, he was grossly negligent in repeating a false claim without first confirming it. We expect better from someone in a position of great authority.

But he really doesn't care whether it's true or not.
 
phiwum said:
We don't, but unless he knew it was false, he didn't lie.

That said, as President, his words matter and even if he didn't know it was false, he was grossly negligent in repeating a false claim without first confirming it. We expect better from someone in a position of great authority.

But he really doesn't care whether it's true or not.
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I was going with the odds. If Trump says something, there's a better than even chance it's a lie.
 
Pernicious crap like this is going to be the long tail effect we're going to be left with.

What many experts call false hopes for a coal resurgence have mired economic development efforts here in a catch-22: Coal miners are resisting retraining without ready jobs from new industries, but new companies are unlikely to move here without a trained workforce. The stalled diversification push leaves some of the nation’s poorest areas with no clear path to prosperity.

Federal retraining programs have fared better, with some approaching full participation, in the parts of Appalachia where mining has been crushed in a way that leaves little hope for a comeback, according to county officials and recruiters. They include West Virginia and Kentucky, where coal resources have been depleted.

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Out-of-work miners cite many reasons beyond faith in Trump policy for their reluctance to train for new industries, according to Reuters interviews with more than a dozen former and prospective coal workers, career counselors and local economic development officials. They say mining pays well; other industries are unfamiliar; and there’s no income during training and no guarantee of a job afterward.
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BobTheCoward said:
I cannot wait for all the writeups explaining the difference between trump's Vegas response and his new York response. the difference in his tweets has been offensive.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ss-killings-lead-to-very-different-responses/

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Both Vegas and New York were tragedies and, in both cases, many elected officials will be looking for ways to prevent similar things from happening again. For Trump, though, the events pose dissimilar risks to the American people. One exemplifies the existential threat from radical terrorists that must be addressed. One — the much deadlier one — is just a thing that happens.
 
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This is a dangerous and dumb precedent they want to set.
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Comes from SHS and the daily press briefing ?

Also goes hand-in-hand with trumps earlier statement:
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/01/politics/trump-justice-laughing-stock/index.html
President Donald Trump called for "quick" and "strong" justice for terror suspects in the wake of the deadly New York City attack, saying that it is not surprising terror attacks happen because the way the United States punishes terrorists is "a laughing stock.
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We also have to come up with punishment that's far quicker and far greater than the punishment these animals are getting right now," Trump told reporters. "They'll go through court for years. And at the end, they'll be -- who knows what happens.""

Apparently wheels of justice move too slowly for him ... future irony noted :-)
 
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