I wonder if Trump's presidency will set the tone for what not to do as 21st century Chief of Staff. Maybe it will completely reset the Republican agenda.
Trump giving a trophy to the Air Force football team right now. Slick speech as usual.
"The Air Force is a very special, beautiful place. Very, very special."
Huh.
His speech than goes a little off script asking the dignitaries in the front row "how's healthcare coming? We're moving along?", and looks back at the football players for some reassurance.
This guy is such a weirdo. "We are going to have the finest equipment of all times".
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Don't see anything on CNN about it, but it's from Politico.
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CNN declined to air an ad by President Donald Trump's campaign because it included a graphic that called the mainstream media "fake news," the network said Tuesday.
Trump's campaign committee had blasted CNN, saying the network refused to run an ad about the first 100 days of the Trump administration.
“It is absolutely shameful to see the media blocking the positive message that President Trump is trying to share with the country. It's clear that CNN is trying to silence our voice and censor our free speech because it doesn't fit their narrative," Michael Glassner, executive director of the campaign committee, Donald J. Trump for President, said in a statement.
The statement also said CNN "takes issue with the ad’s message calling out the mainstream media for peddling fake news and not reporting on the fact that President Trump is making America great again."
In the ad, a narrator says of Trump's efforts: "You wouldn't know it from watching the news." Images of anchors like Wolf Blitzer, Rachel Maddow and Andrea Mitchell play under the banner "FAKE NEWS," a favorite moniker Trump uses to describe media coverage he does not like.
"CNN requested that the advertiser remove the false graphic that the mainstream media is 'fake news.' The mainstream media is not fake news, and therefore the ad is false and per policy will be accepted only if that graphic is deleted," CNN said in a statement.
Charmaine Yoest has been a vocal spokesperson for the conservative Christian fundamentalist movement, appearing on CNN, Fox, MSNBC, and in print media to excoriate reproductive rights, the "homosexual agenda," transpeople, feminism... all the usual targets of the religious right. She served in the Reagan White House, and she was president and CEO of Americans United for Life from 2008 to early 2016. She and her husband also run a blog to promote her views: Reasoned Audacity a/k/a charmaineyoest.com.
In late April 2017 Trump appointed her to a high-level position in the Department of Health and Human Services: Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs, which means she's in charge of the Department's communications with the press and the public. She oversees HHS's website and social media, press releases, media campaigns, speechwriting, Freedom of Information Act division, and promotion of public-health initiatives.
Immediately, the Yoests scrubbed charmaineyoest.com of certain posts. They were very selective. Everything about abortion stayed. Everything about LGBTQ matters was deleted. Most posts about Christianity were left in place, although a few were cut. And one posting about rape was taken down.
Also while we're at it re: Photon's post, slander isn't actually a crime. So add that to the, like, ten things wrong with what she said.
__________________ "The great promise of the Internet was that more information would automatically yield better decisions. The great disappointment is that more information actually yields more possibilities to confirm what you already believed anyway." - Brian Eno
Democrats have saved arts funding under threat from Donald Trump, including money for the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and National Public Radio (NPR).
Both houses of congress are expected to vote on the spending bill to keep the government funded for the current fiscal year this week before it goes to Mr Trump for his signature.
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Arts-related agencies like the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) have been spared cuts until September 2017 as well.
The three organisations provide money for everything from public television programming to community theatres and scholarly research.
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When Dickerson was asking him the question about wire tapping and Trump going away like a dog with its tail between its legs, did anyone else hear Curb Your Enthusiasm's theme song play?
Living in small bands of hunter-gatherers, our ancestors were primarily concerned with their social standing, and with making sure that they weren’t the ones risking their lives on the hunt while others loafed around in the cave.
I read this theory before explaining why in places like India, Japan, Europe and Africa; light skin was identified as "superior" in different caste systems throughout history. Basically, dark skin was associated with having the status of someone that needs to expose themselves to the elements in order to survive. Such people were prone to having shorter life spans, and shorter life spans meant that those families were less likely to acquire wealth or become educated. It became a sub-conscious way to easily associate appearance with status and evolved into modern-day racism.
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A warmly recommended podcast by Dan Carlin which touches upon the greatest danger the US faces right now...a divided electorate that no longer judges each other's positions or policies but judges them as human beings. Kind of supports/inspires the line of thought that judging people from the other 'camp' in a derogatory way is ultimately counterproductive.
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"WHAT HAVE WE EVER DONE TO DESERVE THIS??? WHAT IS WRONG WITH US????" -Oiler Fan
"It was a debacle of monumental proportions." -MacT
If judging people for opposing fundamental human rights and dignities of the "other" is wrong, then I don't want to be right.
But just listen to why they believe it. If that's how they truly feel in their black, dead, soulless hearts then you need to respect that and work together to find common ground. Simply vilifying them for being garbage people that actively support anti human rights legislation isn't a solution.
Be open to communication and ideas like they were during the Obama administration. Following the example they set is probably the best way to move forward.
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