The 45th POTUS - Donald J. Trump

[dimejinky99]

And now he's appearing to talk to a load of school kids.


Fucking hell

[Monkey_Driven]

I've talked to a few Trump voters in the last month or so. All of them are "disappointed" in his performance so far, stating they thought he would be better than this at achieving his campaign promises.

[McParadigm]

[Bi_3]

this is really sickening

Doesn't make it any better there are probably millions of people out there right now who are happy with Trump's decision.

We should draft them first.

[Biff Pocoroba]

Can't help but wonder if the days of Don't Ask Don't Tell will come back. As mentioned before what about those that are transgendered that are already there?
I don't know any transgender military personnel but I do know three out people in their 20s who are active duty, including one who enlisted over the summer. From what I have heard from them they personally have not had any issues, which shows a generational shift as much as anything.

[McParadigm]

Maybe trans folk should be relieved.

[McParadigm]

Jesus Christ.

[McParadigm]

[LoathedVermin72]

Jesus Christ.

What a shock. All convervatives need to be burned at the stake.

[digster]

For all the talk of how hard the media is on Trump, there is some stuff he gets away with that any other politician in the country would get annihilated over.

President Donald Trump says that upstate New Yorkers should pick up and move to states like Wisconsin, which have better job prospects, leaving their lives and homes behind, according to comments he made to the Wall Street Journal.

"You're going to need people to work in these massive plants," Trump said, according to an interview with the Wall Street Journal Tuesday. "...I'm going to start explaining to people: When you have an area that just isn't working like upper New York state, where people are getting very badly hurt, and then you'll have another area 500 miles away where you can't get people, I'm going to explain, you can leave. It's OK. Don't worry about your house."

http://www.timesunion.com/7day-business ... 437258.php

I'm trying to imagine the code red shitstorm his base would have if any other politician's response to an economically depressed area was "just move."

[Bi_3]

For all the talk of how hard the media is on Trump, there is some stuff he gets away with that any other politician in the country would get annihilated over.

President Donald Trump says that upstate New Yorkers should pick up and move to states like Wisconsin, which have better job prospects, leaving their lives and homes behind, according to comments he made to the Wall Street Journal.

"You're going to need people to work in these massive plants," Trump said, according to an interview with the Wall Street Journal Tuesday. "...I'm going to start explaining to people: When you have an area that just isn't working like upper New York state, where people are getting very badly hurt, and then you'll have another area 500 miles away where you can't get people, I'm going to explain, you can leave. It's OK. Don't worry about your house."

http://www.timesunion.com/7day-business ... 437258.php

I'm trying to imagine the code red shitstorm his base would have if any other politician's response to an economically depressed area was "just move."

Imagine what his base would say you if swapped in "Central America" or "Syria" or "sub-Saharan Africa" instead of upstate NY.

[E.H. Ruddock]

[McParadigm]

But why even ask her?

[Biff Pocoroba]

Jesus Christ.

Not a surprise given the current AG but certainly a step backwards.
Details from a Reuters write up:

The Trump administration told a U.S. appeals court that federal law does not ban discrimination against gay employees, a sharp reversal of the position former President Barack Obama took on a key civil rights issue.

The U.S. Department of Justice, in a friend of the court brief, told the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan on Wednesday that Congress never intended Title VII, which bans sex discrimination in the workplace, to apply to gay workers.

The department also said the court owed no deference to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, a federal agency that enforces Title VII and has argued since 2012 that the law bans discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.

The brief came hours after President Donald Trump said he would ban transgender people from serving in the military. That would reverse a 2016 policy adopted by Obama.

Justice Department spokesman Devin O'Malley said the brief was consistent with rulings by 10 federal appeals courts and "reaffirms the Department’s fundamental belief that the courts cannot expand the law beyond what Congress has provided."

The department's brief was in support of New York skydiving company Altitude Express Inc in a lawsuit filed by a former employee, Donald Zarda.

Zarda claimed he lost his job as a skydiving instructor after he told a customer he was gay and she complained. He died in a skydiving accident after filing the lawsuit.

In April, a three-judge 2nd Circuit panel dismissed Zarda's case, citing a prior ruling that said discrimination against gay workers is not a form of sex discrimination under Title VII.

The full court, which can overturn the prior decision, agreed in May to review the case.

The issue could reach the U.S. Supreme Court in a different case brought by a former security guard at a Georgia hospital who claims she was harassed and forced to quit because she is gay.

Earlier this month, LGBT rights group Lambda Legal, which represents the former security guard, said it would ask the high court to review the case.

On Wednesday, the Justice Department said employers engage in sex discrimination only when they treat male and female workers differently. Objecting to homosexuality does not depend on sex, the department said, but on moral or religious beliefs.

"Of course, if an employer fired only gay men but not gay women (or vice versa), that would be prohibited by Title VII," the department wrote, "but precisely because it would be discrimination based on sex, not sexual orientation."

Zarda's lawyer, Gregory Antollino, said on Thursday that the department was making the same arguments the Supreme Court rejected in cases involving discrimination against workers in interracial relationships.

[McParadigm]

Swear to god I just watched this:

Reporter: What about Donald Trump isn't elite?
Mooch: How about cheeseburgers and pizza?
Reporter: Who doesn't eat cheeseburgers and pizza?! How is that-
Mooch: You're coming across as a bit elite right now.

[Monkey_Driven]

Swear to god I just watched this:

Reporter: What about Donald Trump isn't elite?
Mooch: How about cheeseburgers and pizza?
Reporter: Who doesn't eat cheeseburgers and pizza?! How is that-
Mooch: You're coming across as a bit elite right now.

[McParadigm]

over/under on someone from this administration saying "rebel scum" before this is over?

[bune]

With Sessions flying today, what are the odds it develops engine trouble over the water?

[McParadigm]

Consider:

If we still have an investigation in two months, it's only because all of the following occurred:

1. The AG is a racist twat who has been dreaming of this job for decades, and will not leave willingly

2. The AG is very, very popular among his party coworkers...so popular that they'll take on political risk for him

3. The AG had to recuse himself from the investigation early on

If any of those things hadn't been what they were...I don't think we'd even be this far.

[Biff Pocoroba]

Sam Brownback, noted super conservative and Kansas governor who steered their state budget into a ditch, has been picked for a State Department job overseeing International Religious Freedom. Talk about failing upwards.