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Trump’s Overt Racism Is Uniting Democrats and Unnerving Some Republicans
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/trumps-overt-racism-is-uniting-democrats-and-unnerving-some-republicans
By John Cassidy
July 15, 2019
On Monday, instead of backing down from his weekend tweets, Donald Trump dug further into his playbook for incendiary right-wing demagogues.
Photograph by Sarah Silbiger / Bloomberg / Getty
As Donald Trump would be the first to tell you, he’s a political genius. Certainly, in a period of a little over twenty-four hours on Sunday and Monday, he accomplished three things that many observers had considered impossible. First, he made it even more clear than it was before that he is a garden-variety racist. Second, he united the entire House Democratic Caucus behind the four young, female firebrands who have been tussling with Nancy Pelosi. Third, he prompted at least some elected Republicans to criticize him publicly.
Since the G.O.P. is confined to a state of what seems like permanent vassalage to Trump and his MAGA supporters, the final development was perhaps the most surprising, and it provided an answer to a question that has been hanging for at least two and half years: Just how far does the President have to go before his supine Party colleagues on Capitol Hill muster the independence to register some semblance of a protest?
For the congressman Mike Turner, who represents Ohio’s Tenth District, which includes the city of Dayton, it seems like the answer came when Trump suggested on Sunday that Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, and Rashida Tlaib should “go back” to “the places from which they came,” even though, for three of them—Ocasio-Cortez, Pressley, and Tlaib—that would have meant quickening to the Bronx, Chicago, and Detroit, respectively. “I am confident that every Member of Congress is a committed American,” Turner wrote on Twitter on Monday. “@realDonaldTrump’s tweets from this weekend were racist and he should apologize. We must work as a country to rise above hate, not enable it.”
In defying the online MAGA trolls and Sean Hannitys of the world, Turner deserves credit. So does Will Hurd, of Texas, the only black Republican in the House, who said that Trump’s comments were “racist and xenophobic,” and also dumb. “While you had a civil war going on within the Democratic Party, between the far left and the rest of the Party, and now they have circled the wagons and are starting to protect one another,” Hurd told CNN...........................................
A Racist in the White House #RacistTrump
The subtitle is better than the title.
A Racist in the White House
https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/a-racist-in-the-white-house-donald-trump-tweets-ocasio-cortez-tlaib-omar-pressley
By David Remnick
July 15, 2019
Trump’s strategy in 2020 will be to sling as much filth as possible and hope his base comes out in sufficient numbers. This is what he knows how to do.
On November 4, 2008, Barack Obama beat John McCain by nine and a half million votes and became the country’s first African-American President. In 2016, Donald Trump, an unapologetic racist, lost the popular ballot by three million votes but, thanks to the antediluvian rules that still govern our voting system, succeeded Obama in the Oval Office. Understanding the role of racism and its persistence in this dismal pivot will be as central to our understanding of our times as it was to our understanding of Reconstruction.
What’s curious is just how many people have resisted seeing squarely Trump’s racism, his shrewd exploitation of animosity, hatred, and division for political advantage. Trump is hardly a man of subtle concealment. W. E. B. Du Bois wrote that Andrew Johnson’s unwillingness to enact policies to give freedmen land, a decent education, or voting rights resided, first and foremost, in “his inability to picture Negroes as men.” Trump’s hostility toward minorities and his capacity to signal that hostility to others has never been a secret. This quality is central to his politics and his appeal.
The biography is plain. As real-estate developers in the nineteen-seventies, Trump and his father did what they could to keep people of color out of their buildings in Brooklyn and Queens. These slimy stratagems attracted the attention of the Department of Justice. As a tabloid big mouth eager to enhance his peculiar brand of outrageous celebrity, Trump paid for ad space in the New York papers to call for the execution of the so-called Central Park Five. Long after they were vindicated and given a collective award of forty-one million dollars, Trump refused to apologize or reconsider.
Trump always made a point of forming “friendships” with Don King, Mike Tyson, and a few other black celebrities, but the fraud was obvious. As Kip Brown, a driver who worked at one of Trump’s casinos in Atlantic City, told Nick Paumgarten in The New Yorker, “When Donald and Ivana came to the casino, the bosses would order all the black people off the floor. . . . I was a teen-ager, but I remember it: they put us all in the back.”
The foundational cause of Trump’s fledgling political career was not tax policy or the nuclear deal with Iran; it was the promotion of “birtherism,” the conspiracy theory that Obama was lying about his citizenship and place of origin. After the election, a ban on Muslim immigration was among Trump’s top priorities. His ongoing cruelties directed at men, women, and children at the southern border is a naked attempt to strike fear into would-be migrants throughout Mexico and Central America and to arouse the approval of white voters. The President’s views are clear: black athletes who dare to protest police violence are “sons of bitches”; African countries are “shitholes”; and there are some “fine people” among the bigoted thugs who carried tiki torches and chanted “blood and soil” and “Jews will not replace us” in Charlottesville.
Just last week, the President invited to the White House leading members of ........................
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Harris unveils prescription drug plan & her organizing team will hit more than 70 Iowa County Fairs
whow. that is a lot of county fair food to eat
Miryam Lipper
? @MiryamLipper
3h3 hours ago
Today in the CAMPAIGN ALMANAC: Kamala Harris unveils prescription drug plan and her organizing team will hit more than 70 Iowa County Fairs
https://twitter.com/MiryamLipper/status/1151111536011862017
Biden proposes health law that improves, builds on ACA-plus a public coverage option....
I like the idea of a public option--I recall the public option was dropped from the Obama ACA act early in the negotiations.
U.S. News
Updated July 15, 2019 at 12:42 PM
Biden proposes health law that improves, builds on ACA
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2019/07/15/Biden-proposes-health-law-that-improves-builds-on-ACA/2501563188126/
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Nicholas Sakelaris & Clyde Hughes
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden announced his plan to expand and protect the ACA. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI | License Photo
July 15 (UPI) -- Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden on Monday unveiled his healthcare plan -- a modified version of the Affordable Care Act, plus a public coverage option run by the federal government.
The former vice president announced the plan in a campaign video, in which he said "we should be building from what we have" instead of starting over with a new model.
Biden's plan includes universal coverage and reduced complexities he said will provide affordable, quality plans and prescription drug coverage.
A key part of the plan is a public option for government-run coverage, which would be available to roughly 5 million Americans in states that have not expanded Medicare. Biden's campaign said the plan would cover 97 percent of Americans.
"We should not be starting from scratch," Biden said. "There is no time to wait."
RELATED Biden to seek greater involvement in global alliances as president
Biden said Americans under his plan would be able to keep their employer-based insurance. It also seeks to prevent states from passing laws to outlaw abortion.
In a video posted to Twitter, Biden called the Affordable Care Act an "historic achievement" that gave 20 million Americans coverage they didn't have before. He said while he understands the appeal of a "Medicaid for All" plan, like that advocated by candidate Bernie Sanders, it doesn't make sense to abandon the ACA..........................................
Rudy showed up defending #RacistTrump......
https://twitter.com/RudyGiuliani/status/1151112670273298433
https://twitter.com/erikhalvorsen18/status/1151125445720649730
"The Defendant, Donald J. Trump, was clearly heard referring to Defendant, Jeffrey E. Epstein, as a "Jew Bastard" as he yelled at Defendant Epstein, that clearly, he, Defendant Trump, should be the lucky one to "pop the cherry" of Plaintiff....16. Case 5:16-cv-00797-KS Filed ./16
Chinese companies are embedded in strategically important internet infrastructure-beating out the US
NOT GOOD.
In Global Tech Battle, a Balky U.S. Ally Chooses China
The Philippines has chosen Chinese companies to expand its telecoms network, shunning warnings about security risks
By Niharika Mandhana
July 15, 2019 11:51 am ET
MANILA—The U.S.-China technology war is raging around the world, but the Philippines is no longer torn. It is binding its telecommunications future to China’s.
The country got its first taste of next-generation 5G services in late June with gear supplied by Huawei Technologies Co. This month, a new carrier backed by state-owned China Telecommunications Corp. will begin rolling out a network largely designed in China, to be executed by Chinese engineers in the Philippines.
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Chinese companies are embedded in strategically important internet infrastructure, beating out the U.S. Their latest win: the Philippines. https://www.wsj.com/articles/in-global-tech-battle-the-philippines-has-chosen-sides-not-the-u-s-11563205891 via @WSJ
Trump administration reopens dangerous 'longline' fishing off California
Source: raw story
Published 1 min ago July 16, 2019
The Pacific leatherback sea turtle, at up to 2,200 pounds the largest turtle on earth, could disappear from our oceans, yet Trump regulators have OK’d a type of fishing that could wipe out the massive animals.
Pacific leatherback sea turtles are one of eight turtle species the Fisheries Service has identified as most at risk of extinction. The number of West Pacific leatherback sea turtles declined about 6% a year from the 1980s through 2011.
An estimated 562 nesting female adults survive now. In 2040, that number is projected to drop to 260 adult females in 2040, so few that leatherbacks likely could not make a comeback.
Despite this, in April the National Marine Fisheries Service issued a two-year permit to allow two boats to fish for swordfish 50 to 200 miles off the coast of California and Oregon using fishing lines with hundreds of baited hooks. The lines, up to 62 miles long, also catch turtles, seals and birds. David Haworth, captain of the Pacific Horizon, and John Gibbs, captain of Southern Horizon, are named in the permit.
“Sea turtles could go extinct if deadly longline fisheries are expanded,” said Todd Steiner, executive director of Turtle Island Restoration Network............................................
Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2019/07/trump-administration-reopens-dangerous-longline-fishing-off-california/
Just last week #racistTrump callled a press conference to give a long list of his so-called environmental good things he has done-to be used in his campaign (like everything)
Texas Republicans criticize Trump over tweets
Source: statesman.com
Updated Jul 15, 2019 at 7:28 PM
A handful of Texas Republicans in Congress admonished President Donald Trump for a series of Sunday tweets in which he told four members of Congress — three born in the U.S. and all American citizens — to “go back” to the countries they came from, even as Trump doubled down on his comments Monday.
“POTUS was wrong to say any American citizen, whether in Congress or not, has any ‘home’ besides the U.S.,” U.S. Rep. Chip Roy, who lives just outside Austin in Hays County, said in a tweet Sunday night.
Republican U.S. Reps. Will Hurd of Helotes, a longtime thorn in the president’s side on border security issues, and Pete Olson of Sugar Land, who has been more hesitant to criticize the president, delivered stronger rebukes.
In an interview Monday on CNN, Hurd called the tweets “racist,” “xenophobic” and “unbecoming of the leader of the free world.” On Twitter, Olson called on Trump to “immediately disavow his comments” and added that the tweets were “not reflective of the values of the 1,000,000+ people in Texas (District) 22.”
Their comments were notable because most Republicans remained silent on the topic, even as Democrats, including the objects of Trump’s ire, spoke forcefully against him...............
Read more: https://www.statesman.com/news/20190715/texas-republicans-criticize-trump-over-tweets
It may be that it is a slow trickle of Repug condemation of Trump racist comments.
I see both Lisa Murkowski and Mitt Romney put out statements condemning the comments, but they did not call them racists. --there may have been other Repugs who put out post but I have not seen them
ha ha Lara Trump says the president is the real victim: He 'gave up his entire life' to be president
I do think she has said this a while ago. She repeats herself, just like #racistTrump does!!
Lara Trump says the president is the real victim: He ‘gave up his entire life’ to be president -
https://twitter.com/RawStory/status/1150918655523414017
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Dearest @LaraLeaTrump --#RacistTrump can go back to his life in #nyc. Pronto.
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Left Of Main Street
? @LeftOfMainSt
6h6 hours ago
Replying to @RawStory
Cry me a fucking river. President Caligula can leave whenever he wants. Now would be a good time... right now.
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Howard
? @HowardA_Esq
6h6 hours ago
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Who?
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Jim F. T.
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? @JimFT2
6h6 hours ago
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Next joke on America please! The smell of her BS is screwing up my ability to breathe!
https://twitter.com/NoHolidayforGOP/status/1150991497476681728
The best economy in the world as Trump claims? NOPE-.......
living on the edge of living in a car!
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1150948978218979328
https://twitter.com/TrinityResists/status/1150950416135274496
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