The Trump Presidency 13: The (James) Baker's Dozen

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Hellbound said:
You know, thinking about it, part of my distaste with it is also the implied insult to me (and other citizens). The idea that we're so ignorant and/or naive, that him molesting a flag is going to make us think he actually cares about any of those ideals.

Sadly, I suspect some are.

More sadly, those that are have the same voting power as everyone else.

Sometimes I feel like we should write off democracy as a failed experiment.[/cynicism]
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Not failed. The US' brand is in some danger, though, after decades of (mostly, but definitely not only) Republican efforts to undermine some of the necessary requirements to have a successful democracy. In particular, an informed and involved population with relatively equal access to the opportunity to participate.

CapelDodger said:
Patriotism is a thing for the stupid. Pride in country is a good sign of having nothing else to be proud of.
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I suspect that you're confusing Patriotism and Nationalism a bit, but, if you truly aren't, I disagree with you. Being a bit proud of a group project that one was an integral part of that came out well is not really a good sign of having nothing else to be proud of.

Anyways, mildly relevant news drop time. FOX News Blacklisted Conservatives for 'Refusing to Fawn Over President Donald Trump'. Does more need said?

The Trump Administration suddenly rescinded its attempt to give a prestigious award to a journalist when they found out she was critical of Trump.

Jessikka Aro, a Finnish investigative journalist, has faced down death threats and harassment over her work exposing Russia’s propaganda machine long before the 2016 U.S. presidential elections. In January, the U.S. State Department took notice, telling Aro she would be honored with the prestigious International Women of Courage Award, to be presented in Washington by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

Weeks later, the State Department rescinded the award offer. A State Department spokesperson said it was due to a “regrettable error,” but Aro and U.S. officials familiar with the internal deliberations tell a different story. They say the department revoked her award after U.S. officials went through Aro’s social media posts and found she had also frequently criticized President Donald Trump.

“It created a ********* of getting her unceremoniously kicked off the list,” said one U.S. diplomatic source familiar with the internal deliberations. “I think it was absolutely the wrong decision on so many levels,” the source said. The decision “had nothing to do with her work.”
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Pathetic.

Thanks to NBC News, here's a list of those who voted against condemnation of anti-semitism and bigotry in general.

23 House Republicans voted against the anti-hate resolution: Biggs Brooks (AL) Buck Budd Burgess Cheney Collins (NY) Conaway Crawford Duncan Gohmert Gosar Graves (GA) King (NY) LaMalfa Massie Palazzo Rogers (AL) Roy Steube Walker Yoho Zeldin

Rep. Steve King voted present.
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Only Republicans voted against it, unsurprisingly.
 
timhau said:
What explains the 35%?
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The Quinnipiac survey actually recorded 30% who didn't agree president Trump was dishonest (5% didn't know or had no opinion). Based on my experience the full answer usually would be, "Do I consider Donald Trump dishonest? No. They're all dishonest."
 
Trump Tweets

I cannot believe the level of dishonesty in the media. It is totally out of control, but we are winning!

PRESIDENTIAL HARASSMENT!

“This is as good a time as I can remember to be an American Worker. We have the strongest economy in the world.” Stuart Varney @foxandfriends
So true!

Women’s unemployment rate is down to 3.6% - was 7.9% in January, 2011. Things are looking good!
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Trump Tweets...
“This is as good a time as I can remember to be an American Worker. We have the strongest economy in the world.” Stuart Varney @foxandfriends...
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Good grief. I am an American Worker (any reason why Varney capitalized 'worker?') and this is the best time to be one? Not even close. Two Trump voters/supporters were talking yesterday at work. They both agreed Trump won't be reelected. Why? One said, "People are really fed up with him." The other agreed, laughing, "He's freaking clueless."

But they still like him. ;)
 
newyorkguy said:
Good grief. I am an American Worker (any reason why Varney capitalized 'worker?') and this is the best time to be one? Not even close. Two Trump voters/supporters were talking yesterday at work. They both agreed Trump won't be reelected. Why? One said, "People are really fed up with him." The other agreed, laughing, "He's freaking clueless."

But they still like him. ;)
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Name a better time.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
“This is as good a time as I can remember to be an American Worker. We have the strongest economy in the world.” Stuart Varney @foxandfriends
So true!
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Only if you're in the 90th percentile. Otherwise you're wages have been effectively stagnant since the 70s.

After adjusting for inflation, however, today’s average hourly wage has just about the same purchasing power it did in 1978, following a long slide in the 1980s and early 1990s and bumpy, inconsistent growth since then. In fact, in real terms average hourly earnings peaked more than 45 years ago: The $4.03-an-hour rate recorded in January 1973 had the same purchasing power that $23.68 would today.

A similar measure – the “usual weekly earnings” of employed, full-time wage and salary workers – tells much the same story, albeit over a shorter time period. In seasonally adjusted current dollars, median usual weekly earnings rose from $232 in the first quarter of 1979 (when the data series began) to $879 in the second quarter of this year, which might sound like a lot. But in real, inflation-adjusted terms, the median has barely budged over that period: That $232 in 1979 had the same purchasing power as $840 in today’s dollars.

Meanwhile, wage gains have gone largely to the highest earners. Since 2000, usual weekly wages have risen 3% (in real terms) among workers in the lowest tenth of the earnings distribution and 4.3% among the lowest quarter. But among people in the top tenth of the distribution, real wages have risen a cumulative 15.7%, to $2,112 a week – nearly five times the usual weekly earnings of the bottom tenth ($426).
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Segnosaur said:
Which of course would probably cause the Republicans to lose the next election.

Hardcore Trump supporters might see it as "their guy" being forced out, and sit out the next election. Any republicans who might actually have some morals will look at Pence as "the guy who pardoned a crook" and likewise sit out.
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Evidence from the last few years would suggest that you are referring to a species on the brink of extinction.

I'm not sure they would have much of an impact.
 
Trump Tweets

On International Women’s Day, we honor women worldwide for their vital role in shaping and strengthening our communities, families, governments, and businesses...
 
Segnosaur said:
Belz... said:
On International Women’s Day, we honor women worldwide for their vital role in shaping and strengthening our communities, families, governments, and businesses...
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"...and we grab them by the pussy and rate them out of 10."
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"And only if they're not old or chubby"
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And, presumably, as long as they don't have blood coming out of their "wherever".
 
And as long as the woman doesn’t repulse Trump’s peerless aesthetic standards.

”Look at that face!” he said at a conference table with his staff as [Carly] Fiorina took a question about him on television. “Would anyone vote for that? Can you imagine that, the face of our next president?!”
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Captain_Swoop said:
Trump Tweets
“This is as good a time as I can remember to be an American Worker. We have the strongest economy in the world.” Stuart Varney @foxandfriends
So true!
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I for one would like to congratulate the U.S. and trump for their economic success. ~20,000 jobs were added in the U.S. in february, a testament to the business skills and trade wars of Trump.

https://www.theguardian.com/busines...man-factories-trade-war-us-jobs-business-live

Meanwhile Canada, a country with roughly 1/10th of the population, added 56,000 jobs. (And this is while we have a government that is left of center, what come Americans would like is full-blown communism, and our Prime Minister's previous job before he entered politics was as a drama teacher.

https://globalnews.ca/news/5034089/canada-feb-2019-jobs-report/
 
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