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46858. judithathome - 2/8/2017 10:45:52 PM Okay, this is another post I made about last night's goings-on:
Well, Mitch is kinda in Trump's pocket...his wife is in Trump's Cabinet, after all...head of LABOR. So I'd think ole Mitch is very thankful.
From Wilipedia:
Chao's parents had fled to Taiwan from Shanghai in China after the Chinese Communists took over following the Chinese Civil War in 1949. When she was 8 years old, in 1961, she came to the United States on a freight ship along with her mother and two younger sisters, a long journey that took 37 days. Her father had arrived in New York three years earlier after receiving a scholarship.
So...what sounds hinky about THIS story? She is an IMMIGRANT...as were her parents.
Wonder if she could get into the US today under Trump Rules?
edit: I am not trashing this woman, by any means....but what does this say about Trump's ideas about barring people from coming into this country? That he's a complete and total idiot? Yes...her "journey" and the outcome of it speaks volumes. Too bad Trump can't read. 46859. judithathome - 2/8/2017 10:48:33 PM Sorry...she is Secretary of Transportation...my mistake.
46860. judithathome - 2/8/2017 10:49:29 PM Evidently, I can't read, either! ;-) 46861. wabbit - 2/11/2017 5:42:13 PM President Trump vowed in a pair of tweets Saturday morning to negotiate the costs of constructing a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border “way down,” after a government analysis estimated the price at a whopping $21.6 billion.
So he'll not pay the contractors, is that the plan? It worked for him for years, so why not. It's how the self-inflicted "Trump Tax" got started in the NYC metro area. Let's see if contractors nationwide wake up in time to see it coming their way. 46862. judithathome - 2/11/2017 7:58:23 PM Well, if the wall is to made of bricks, he won't get anyone to work for him except Mexican artisans...they are the BEST at brick work!
And he's stiffed them before in NYC so he'll do the same with this ridiculous wall.
Did anyone hear about ICE last night rounding up "illegals" nationwide and deporting them last night? Hundreds of them..."disappeared". 46863. wabbit - 2/12/2017 7:41:39 PM But only the "criminal" ones, right? Of course, since they are here illegally, they are all criminals. And now those who are left will hide. I feel SO much safer.
I'd like to hear about other repercussions of a wall. How will the indigenous wildlife be affected? Or are we back to the Bible where we rule the animals and don't give a crap about them or the environment?
I'm so sick of small-minded, short-sighted people running things. 46864. wabbit - 2/12/2017 7:49:42 PM 
Good read about gerrymandering.
46865. judithathome - 2/12/2017 8:09:23 PM I'm so sick of small-minded, short-sighted people running things.
Me, too...but I'm more terrified of smart, very articulate people in thrall to the devil doing so.
If you haven't seen it, watch
b Meet The Press
today (reruns throughout the day on NBC and MSNBC) and see Chuck Todd be eviserated by Steve Miller....no, not the Space Cowboy...the guy who writes most of Trumps teleprompter material and third on the WH totem pole, right after Bannon. (Yes, I know Reince is in there somewhere and THINKS he's running things but...guess again, Reincy!)
Miller is young, highly educated AND articulate...and deadly smug. Morning Joe Scarborough nearly had an anuerysm last week, spewing his outrage for almost an hour blasting Miller and demanding he be fired.
Miller is scarier than Trump OR Bannon. He looks so meek and innocuous but then, he opens his mouth! 46866. arkymalarky - 2/12/2017 9:59:31 PM That's what investigative reporters are for. The old line that Obama liked to use that sunlight is the best disinfectant applies precisely to people like that and they've always been the concern. Trump didn't win on his own, and he would have lost had his handlers not shifted his campaign managers; and the puppeteers who wanted him to win, wherever they are, ran the strategy that put him where he is. They don't need ever to get a pass. They need to be reported on and exposed. I've seen some of that, but not nearly enough. And on a side note, I don't care for Chuck Todd or Chris Matthews or any of those squishy yappers who can't manage to actually do the work and dig in and ask the questions that need to be asked, to say nothing of getting answers.
Katy tur was defending her work to some congresswoman a while back, and I thought no dear, you don't get credit for sitting in the pit and being a stenographer I don't care how in danger you felt. She may think that they called out falsehoods and concerning issues like an undercurrent of racism and possible Russian connections during the campaign, but there was precious little of that in comparison to the free airtime and the squishy faux balance they thought they were providing to both sides of the campaign. And while I'm at it I'll throw NYT right on top of that steamy pile. 46867. arkymalarky - 2/12/2017 10:00:54 PM "the work"= the research 46868. wabbit - 2/14/2017 12:08:07 AM I really miss HBO's Late Week with John Oliver 46869. arkymalarky - 2/14/2017 4:43:02 AM I wish we got premium channels. We too poor. 46870. arkymalarky - 2/14/2017 6:11:12 AM Well, Flynn jumped, leaving us to wonder if he would have ever been pushed--and what investigations may turn up. 46871. arkymalarky - 2/14/2017 6:21:48 AM The Russian dynamic and alt right support of Putin needs looking into. The message is out there in the rw ether but the origin is unclear as are their greater global aims. The role of Jill Stein deserves a closer look as well. 46872. winstonsmith - 2/14/2017 6:37:34 AM Arky, I wonder if Flynn was asked to resign. Trump knew he was big trouble, especially since his problems related to Russia, an area where Trump is vulnerable/suspect. It may also be the case that it can be proven that Trump knew all about what Flynn did. 46873. arkymalarky - 2/14/2017 7:32:54 AM I Figure the Flynn-Russia conversations thread is hanging from a very big sweater and I just hope it unravels quickly. 46874. judithathome - 2/14/2017 8:22:52 PM Wabbit, John Oliver started his new season this past Sunday night. 46875. judithathome - 2/14/2017 8:31:05 PM Arky, I get what you're saying but I think the gasbag shows provide a lot of information...it may be accidental and second or third hand but at least it's OUT there...
I'm sure I could be better informed but I think I know more by watching what I do than say, my cousin who watches FOX...very low bar for anyone to clear but still....
And Katy Tur worked her ass off during the campaign, following that asshole all over the country...stuck in the Trump press pool and getting threats not only from manical "fans" of his but from Trump himself...so she DID do the work to earn her place at the desk for one hour a day. 46876. Ms. No - 2/14/2017 8:34:34 PM I'm worried that the WH will be able to use Flynn as the sort of "lone gunman" scapegoat. Flynn did all the illegal info-sharing and plotting with Russia. Nobody else in the Trump camp new anything about it! Honest!
The media needs to be relentless on this -- Flynn is done. He's small potatoes in the great scheme of things. I like Arky's analogy to the string on the sweater. They need to keep pulling and citizens need to keep the pressure on at town-hall meetings. 46877. arkymalarky - 2/14/2017 11:24:16 PM They rarely provide anything I didn't already get online. The 7:00 on are much more informative than Chris Matthews, and CNN is good. Reading is still better.
Wrt Tur, if somebody can point me to something that she pursued and exposed and investigated then I might change my view of how useful her coverage was. Frankly I don't think it should have been a Beat at all. Hillary's campaign certainly wasn't covered that way. It was just gaping at what everyone was certain was a train wreck. Take what he says, get the Nuggets that aren't constant repeats out of it, look into their veracity and report. It doesn't need to be all Trump all the time. t's not enough just to sit there and repeat what people say and ask those people questions, even tough ones. You have to do background investigation and research and interviews of people who know, and that just wasn't happening. Of course I teach 7th graders every day, so I don't really see covering Trump as being all that special.
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