Morning AB, All. As always, thank you AB for doing this thread so reliably and keeping the peace with gentle thread policing. Thank you Bray for weekly written wisdom, Thank you Rodguy for fishing tales and political perspectives from all angles, Thank all yon contributors for excellent commentary to flesh it all out.
Below are the words from my daily political diary. It is quite long so scroll on by if not interested. But do stay around and add your commentary and point of view to the thread.
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7/16/19
NEW RULES FOR SEEKING ASYLUM PUT IN PLACE BY PRESIDENT TRUMP
I admit to being a little confused in that I thought that it was necessary for asylum-seekers to seek it first in their home country. Now that I think about it, if one is in danger in their home country they might be endangered more by seeking asylum in same.
But if an African from Somalia manages to get from Africa to south of our border, surely there is somewhere that he or she could contact an American embassy to begin the process of seeking asylum.
It’s not wise to just allow the entire planet to boom, leave their country wherever it is and come on over to America.
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The Departments of Homeland Security and Justice released a new rule Monday under which migrants who enter the United States at the southern border are ineligible for asylum unless they sought protection in one of the countries they traveled through first. The measure, an effort to stem the flow of migrants from Central America into the U.S., is expected to take effect Tuesday.
To remain eligible for safe harbor in the U.S., the rule requires migrants to first seek protection in a country they traverse, such as Mexico, El Salvador, or Guatemala, before arriving at the southern border.
Attorney General William Barr said in a statement the Trump administration is acting within the authority designed by Congress to restrict asylum eligibility... “This rule will decrease 'forum shopping by economic migrants' and those who seek 'to exploit our asylum system to obtain entry to the United States'.
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Trump is going to win these battles people. But they’re making him fight like the dickens.
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TIME FOR A LITTLE POLITICAL MISCELLANY
Some political gossipy tidbits not worth an entire paragraph just yet.
GERMOPHOBIA?
First, this is a man who has to shake hands practically for a living. But as I’ve learned of recent, after he’s shaken a lot of hands he immediately demands hand cleaner. In fact, I’ve heard he is referred to as a Purel President . I heard him quoted that he thinks shaking hands is one of mankind’s most dangerous activities.
PELOSI’S NOT A RACIST
Trump said during one of his impromptu press conferences that Nancy Pelosi is not a racist. Which, I agree, she is not. But did Pelosi extend Trump the same positive description? I quote the fabulous Nancy, “Trump wants to make America white again.” Cause when all else fails, call them a racist.
“GO BACK WHERE YOU CAME FROM”
Heh. Allegedly Trump is in a lot of trouble for telling that squad of four America-haters to go back where you came from if you hate this country so much. I don’t think any member of that crew are not from America except that Omar woman but nonetheless, if they hate America so much, they should leave, how about that?
“RAIDS ACROSS AMERICA”
Yesterday there was planned enforcement of our laws which would have ICE seeking illegal immigrants, illegal immigrants who have been given a court hearing and told to leave the country by the judge on the case. We haven’t heard much in terms of names, places and counts but like I said earlier, Trump has to fight for everything. And yet is always wins.
7/17/19
FIGHTS WITH THE “SQUAD” CONTINUE
Pelosi calls them “xenophobic tweets” while President Trump’s tweets over the four Democratic congress women who hate America and let us know it every day are nothing of the sort.
Trump thinks that when you are elected to the United States congress you have no right to go out and talk horrible about the country which let you in, gave you pursuit of happiness, and elected you to represent them.
Now we hear that the House of Representatives is going to condemn Trump for daring to defend America.
What do you think would happen to a Chinese elected official who would suddenly jump up and down like an asshole and talked bad about Chinca? Or how about a Russian quasi-elected official? Think they’d get away with such a thing.
And folks, America does not like people talking bad, especially those representing them.
The Democrats hate America…how sad is that?
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This morning, the President doubled down on his attacks on our four colleagues suggesting they apologize to him,” Pelosi wrote to House Democrats. “Let me be clear, our caucus will continue to forcefully respond to these disgusting attacks.”
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) and freshman Rep. Tom Malinowksi (D-N.J.), who was born in Poland, will draft the resolution, according to Pelosi. It’s unclear when the House will vote on the measure and the speaker did not specify in her letter…
“The House cannot allow the president’s characterization of immigrants to our country to stand. Our Republican colleagues must join us in condemning the president’s xenophobic tweets,” Pelosi wrote.
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REPUBLICANS, YOU CAN NEVER COUNT ON THEM
Kevin McCarthy is from California, it’s the first time I noticed this. He replaced that awful Paul Ryan but what does it matter? The Republicans have air between the legs, more aid than Hurricane Barry had rain. They don’t take a stand but the few times they do, it’s in favor of the opposition.
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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy says President Donald Trump is not a racist. But he also says four Democratic congresswomen of color whom Trump said should return to their native countries should not have to leave the U.S.
The California Republican told reporters on Monday: “This is their country.” Three of the four congresswomen were born in the U.S., and all are Americans.
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POLITICAL CARTOON OF THE WEEK
7/18/19
WONDERFUL EPSTEIN HAS CHILD PORN EVEN WHEN IN JAIL
So say some of the lawyers for the victims.
What a creep, beloved by the FBI.
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HOUSE PASSES RESOLUTION CONDEMNING PRESIDENT TRUMP FOR HIS TWEETS AGAINST THE FOUR FEMALE ASSHOLES
Trump tweeted something nasty about those four nothing-burger female congress critters as a response to their constant negative comments about this country.
Why no resolution condemning THEM???
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The House on Tuesday voted to formally admonish President Trump, approving a resolution condemning as “racist” his tweets targeting four minority congresswomen.
The 240-187 vote fell largely along partisan lines, as GOP leaders had rushed to the president’s defense in whipping against the measure.
Just four Republicans broke with party ranks to join every voting Democrat, revealing the extent to which Trump’s incendiary remarks had jarred Capitol Hill and forced even some of his closest allies to denounce his behavior. Six Republicans missed the vote.
Rep. Justin Amash (I-Mich.), who recently left the GOP over differences with Trump, also backed the resolution.
Trump’s remarks saying the progressive lawmakers should “go back” to the “places from which they came” sparked a flurry of outrage, with Democrats briefly uniting to push back against the attack despite recent divisions between various factions of the party spilling into the public.
The resolution was led by freshman Rep. Tom Malinowski (D-N.J.), who is white but was born in Poland. He argued it was a necessary step to push back against racist rhetoric from the White House.
“Even if we may disagree on the details of immigration or border policy, racism is wrong, it is un-American,” Malinowski told The Hill.
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NANCY PELOSI GETS SHUT UP
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi was banned from speaking on the House floor for the rest of the day after calling President Trump's tweets racist on the House floor.
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There is something weird about this incident involving Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi. She’s been around forever. She knows the rules.
But before the vote Pelosi made a nasty comment, something evidently not allowed on the House floor between votes. She also said she got permission from the House parliamentarian before saying what she said.
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The decision came after the California Democrat gave an impassioned speech about tweets by Trump she called "racist."
The chairman at the time, Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, reprimanded her for the "personality-based" attack before "abandoning the chair."
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I think Pelosi is trying to wrest control back from those four female jerks and she has a plan. What she seems to be doing is stopping those votes against Trump, up to and including an impeachment vote.
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NOT Politics by Pat
Just a silly anecdote but it made me smile, I got a mammogram yesterday, something I hate. But I went to Beebe health center on, get this, BIDEN AVENUE (BIDEN….get it? What he do to deserve an avenue named after him) and the staff was delightful.
First the lady taking all my information asked if I was born in Delaware.
“Nobody’s born in Delaware,” I said sort of automatically. Though I must suppose some folks were born in Delaware, I daresay most current Delawareans were born in Maryland, Pennsylvania or New Jersey.
See laughed and told me, true, true, few of us currently living here were born here. Then she said she was from New Jersey. So since we were being so darn clever I remarked that the worst drivers come from New Jersey, an assertion I stand by.
She shook her head, oh no. “Massachusetts has the worst drivers,” she asserted. Well damn, we’re far away from Mass. And hardly see any drivers from that state so I was surprised.
Then she told me she was born in Connecticut and I smiled. “MASSHOLES,” she said. “We call them Massholes”.
Now I happened to have a husband from Massachusetts and I don’t know about being worse drivers than New Jersey drivers but they do have the weirdest roads in Massachusetts. Come rush hour they open up the shoulders and the entire expressway is filled with cars going every which way.
It is, indeed, very odd.
“We call the bad drivers in Maine “MAINIACS”, she finished up.
Heh.
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The Bachelorette, the Fantasy Suite and Sex
For many years the Bachelor(ette) series featured a finale that had the bachelor(ette) and the contenders for his or her hand spending a night in something called a Fantasy Suite.
Now out here across the fruity plains, it’s not specifically said that there was sex going on in that Fantasy Suite. I mean it shows them going into the bed together and they wake up in the morning and smile at how much fun they had last night.
Hannah, this year’s Bachelorette who I don’t much like, spend the night in the Fantasy Suite with three guys.
Folks, I am not so pure. But I think spending three nights in a row with different men and, as hinted, having sex with them, is kind of crude.
One of Hannah’s guys, Luke, a real disliked guy by everyone except Hannah, told her, during one of those tete-a-tete things they have on these shows, that if he found out she had sex with those other guys he’d be mad.
So Hannah got all mad and demanded Luke go home, that he had no right to tell her how to live.
Well folks…..if I were a guy, emotionally involved with a female who I thought spent three nights in a row with three different guys….I’d give her (or him, yes, having sex with a gang is just not cute or romantic , even if a guy) the heave-ho.
What’s wrong with Luke stating how he really feels?
I really don’t know if Hannah actually had sex with all three of those guys but I don’t think she had a right to get mad if Luke, a fellow who really loved her, didn’t like it.
And if Hannah did have sex with all those guys…..hey….I am not impressed.
7/19/19
NO IMPEACHMENT VOTE
It’s been a wild week in congress with votes to discuss impeachment, votes to condemn Trump, votes to have the man murdered or cut out his tongue.
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Trump tweet below
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The United States House of Representatives has just overwhelmingly voted to kill the Resolution on Impeachment, 332-95-1. This is perhaps the most ridiculous and time consuming project I have ever had to work on. Impeachment of your President, who has led the....
....Greatest Economic BOOM in the history of our Country, the best job numbers, biggest tax reduction, rebuilt military and much more, is now OVER. This should never be allowed to happen to another President of the United States again!
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SHE’S MARRIED TO HER BROTHER?
It’s something been bandied about the Internet for a few months, that Rep. Ilhan Omar, that horrible woman from Minnesota, married her brother so she can get into America.
Yet, oddly, she hates America.
Now President Trump is letting it out there this factoid because if you wait for the media to do it you shall die of wait.
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Trump’s tweet below
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President Donald Trump on Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN): “There's a lot of talk about the fact that she was married to her brother. I know nothing about it. … I’m sure that somebody would be looking at that”
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I found the following on a post on FreeRepublic.
Tthere’s tons of information in the public domain about this, and it’s almost certain that it’s an absolute fact:
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RADIO TALK SHOW NOTE
Sean Hannity has his pluses and minuses, as do they all. But every damn night he invites that awful AOC woman on his show and promises her a whole hour.
Here’s what I want to tell Hannity…THE MINUTE, THE VERY SECOND YOU DO THAT, I WILL TURN YOU OFF FOREVER.
I mean it. This child does not deserve an hour of time although she did go on Meet the Press, another very stupid move and I shall not watch again.
Do not give her the time of day people!!! And while the liberal types think it’s a cool idea, Sean Hannity, it’s one of the dumbest ideas you’ve ever had.
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EDITORIAL BY PAT
Even legal immigration needs to be overturned.
Back when I was in my teens my mother met my stepfather. Eventually they got married and had three kids but of first note was that stepfather, named Ernest Schneider, was from Germany. His parents brought he and his two siblings to America when they were children. Being that I was very young and might be confused, but I think his parents had to get a sponsor to come to the United States. You are talking well over fifty years ago.
It seemed to be a good system. My stepfather did eventually achieve citizenship and served a couple of years in the American army.
At any rate, with immigrants pouring through our borders unchecked, the concept of sponsorship to achieve citizenship, in this day and age, seems like a good idea.
During a recent perusal of a post at a Conservative site, there was discussion of a complete overhaul of the immigration system, not just the lawbreakers from the south, but also LEGAL immigrants.
For the reason this country has yet to have a fair system of immigration the “system” we use should be overthrown and reconfigured.
The commenters on this site got concerned because they shouted and ranted that legal immigration is fine and don’t go allowing congress to get its hands on this system.
I think of the system of sponsorship, heck I even remember my stepfather’s family’s sponsors, I think we need to take the choice of who gets to immigrate to America up to the people. That’s right….US!
We leave it to the politicos and we get the hairdresser’s brother-in-law, the big contributor last election, bribe money to get a desired law passed.
All using our current LEGAL immigration system.
It needs to be done over. When President Reagan gave all the then illegal immigrant amnesty, the concept was that the immigration system of that era will be re-thought and reconfigured.
Instead, the politicians abused and mis-used it.
If ever this country is going to take a long, thoughtful look at who we invite to live here, President Trump will be the likely only one to ever initiate it, we need a task force of very intelligent and expert types, we’d need congress to pass laws to allow those in we like and prevent those we don’t like.
It will likely never happen but damn, wouldn’t it be nice?
7/20/19
PRESIDENT TRUMP SAYS CROWD WAS WRONG TO CHEER
It’s been a whole week of everybody who ever held a microphone discussing the horrible racists, homophobes and deplorables at Trump’s recent rally who cheered “send them back” in reference to the four lovely team of America-hating congress critters. This was a reaction to Trump’s suggestion that seriously folks, if you don’t love America, work to change it or leave it. No one wants to see people going out in the public and trashing their country.
But the fake newsburgers spent every spare minute trashing….no, not those who badmouthed our country….but US, the people who carry this country on their backs.
Trump said he did not lead the cheer and he didn’t think it was right.
I am not sure if Trump just wanted to shut the narrative up as it’d been running 24/7, or somebody talked him into it.
But let me say it again, hey…AOC, Omar, Pressley…..all of you….IF YOU DON’T LIKE AMERICA, LEAVE IT!
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NEW SECRETARY OF LABOR APPOINTED
Alex Acosta resigned as Secretary of Labor recently due to his handling of the Jeff Epstein matter several years ago.
Trump has announced that Gene Scalia, son of the late SCOTUS Antonian Scalia, to replace Acosta.
He seems to be welcomed but then again, the fake newsburgers are all discussing sending AOC to another country.
While on the subject of Epstein, lawyer Alan Dershowitz has been out and about lambasting Epstein’s lawyer, Boies, for coaching two of Epstein’s victims into charging ole Alan with rape.
Since this Epstein case has been talked about, I have heard Dershowitz’ name bandied about all over the place.
I think he’s guilty of something but will keep eyes and ears open.
TIME FOR GIGGLE OF THE WEEK
