The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II

[Thumpalumpacus]

I doubt the average repub voter pays close enough attention to any of the finer details that hurt them in the long run. Or else they wouldn't be repubs. They're similar to theists in that way, believing the word from the political pulpit while considering anything else to be "fake news".

I don't agree in this case. But you do you.

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Pressure is rising on House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to call the House back in session for a vote on ensuring military pay during the shutdown.

President Trump said a standalone military pay bill “probably will happen” in remarks to reporters Wednesday, while bipartisan legislation allowing service members to be paid amid the shutdown is gaining momentum in the House.

Rep. Ken Calvert (R-Calif.), the chair of the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, signed on to the Pay Our Troops Act this week.

[...]

“We can have policy and political fights in Congress, but we simply can’t ask service members to put themselves in harm’s way without paying them,” Calvert said in a statement to The Hill on Thursday. “It should be a red line for anyone who cares about our national security and our troops.”

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/55479...-pay-vote/

But if Johnson calls the House back into session, he must seat the Democrat Arizona rep who will be the push-vote forcing a House vote about the molester list. So they can either vote to not pay troops in order to avoid revealing the list and subsequent investigations, or they can troop the party line about "we love our troops" and do the big reveal with who knows how many names and donors are on it.

Or Johnson can violate the Constitution and refuse to seat a duly-elected representative, and take Trump off the hook for sandbagging American democracy. No matter what he chooses, he loses.

It's nice that it's a Republican pushing this.

[Paraselene]

The White House has denounced the Norwegian Nobel Committee’s decision to award the Nobel peace prize to someone other than Donald Trump.

Following Friday’s announcement that Venezuelan opposition politician María Corina Machado had been awarded the prize, senior aides to the US president attacked the Norwegian committee as politicised while Norway braced itself for a potential diplomatic response from the White House.

“The Nobel Committee proved they place politics over peace,” wrote Steven Cheung, a Trump aide and the White House’s director of communications.

Trump will “continue making peace deals, ending wars, and saving lives”, he wrote. “He has the heart of a humanitarian, and there will never be anyone like him who can move mountains with the sheer force of his will.”

The Guardian

[Fireball]

^ Sore losers and crybabies, the lot of them.

[Ivan Denisovich]

The White House has denounced the Norwegian Nobel Committee’s decision to award the Nobel peace prize to someone other than Donald Trump.

Following Friday’s announcement that Venezuelan opposition politician María Corina Machado had been awarded the prize, senior aides to the US president attacked the Norwegian committee as politicised while Norway braced itself for a potential diplomatic response from the White House.

“The Nobel Committee proved they place politics over peace,” wrote Steven Cheung, a Trump aide and the White House’s director of communications.

Trump will “continue making peace deals, ending wars, and saving lives”, he wrote. “He has the heart of a humanitarian, and there will never be anyone like him who can move mountains with the sheer force of his will.”

The Guardian

By Emperor and his Golden Throne how people can write shit like this? If that dumb cunt would be sent in time to Stalin Russia or Mao China he would fit there perfectly, with this mouth always glued to "glorious leaders" assholes.

[Thumpalumpacus]

^ Sore losers and crybabies, the lot of them.

Talk about some entitled cunts ...

[Fake Messiah]

Robert DeNiro is inviting you to the No Kings protest

[Deesse23]

They fought for independence, not for democracy. That being said, Samuel L. Jackson should join De Niro to complete the motto: "Fuck that, motherfucker!""

[Angrboda]

Sweeping layoffs announced Friday by the Trump administration landed another body blow to the U.S. Department of Education, this time gutting the office responsible for overseeing special education, according to multiple sources within the department.

The reduction-in-force, or RIF, affects the dozens of staff responsible for roughly $15 billion dollars in special education funding, and for making sure states provide special education services to the nation's 7.5 million children with disabilities.

"This is decimating the office responsible for safeguarding the rights of infants, toddlers, children and youth with disabilities," said one department employee, who, like the others NPR spoke with, requested anonymity for fear of retribution.

According to sources, all staff in the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS), with the exception of a handful of top officials and support staff, were cut in Friday's RIF. The office is the central nervous system for programs that support students with disabilities, not only offering guidance to families but providing monitoring and oversight of states to make sure they're complying with the landmark Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).

Amid shutdown, Trump administration guts department overseeing special education

[The Grand Nudger]

Its a waste of the mad kings money to educate lebensunwertes leben.