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JoanofArgh's Journal'Just like Trump': Bolsonaro leads Brazil's presidential race with right-wing populist pitch
SAO PAULO, Brazil Brazil for years reveled in its image as a post-racial, left-leaning society. Now Jair Bolsonaro a far-right outsider who says he loves President Trump has surged to the front of the pack in Sundays presidential elections, sharply dividing Latin Americas largest nation.
To tackle runaway crime, Bolsonaro says, police should gun down more criminals. A gay son is the result of a lack of beatings, he once quipped, and insists that homosexuality should not be discussed in elementary schools.
He once said that women because they get pregnant deserve less pay than men. He has called some minorities fat and lazy.
Like Trump, he embraces social media to reach legions of loyal followers. His rallies have become outlets for white men rattled by social and economic change. He has vowed to drain the swamp in the capital and make Brazil great.Its going to be beautiful, the front-runners 34-year-old son, Eduardo Bolsonaro, said while envisioning his fathers presidency at a rally last week. It will be just like Trump in the United States.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/just-like-trump-bolsonaro-leads-brazils-presidential-race-with-right-wing-populist-pitch/2018/10/04/c4ba3728-c65c-11e8-9c0f-2ffaf6d422aa_story.html?utm_term=.fbeb8a7bced8
Heitkamp's brother, Joel ,said that last time Heidi ran
she was behind 10 points a week before the election, so to ignore the polls. He said he drives all around North Dakota and Heidi has a lot of support. ND farmers are upset with Trump because of tariffs, the price of soybeans and Heidi has a lot of support among them.
Joel Heitkamp was just on MSNBC talking to Katy Tur.
QAnoners Cheer Trump's Text Alert Test, See It As a Step Towards Martial Law
Believers in QAnona conspiracy theory based on a series of internet clues posted by an anonymous character named Q that posits a world in which Trump and the military are engaged in ceaseless, secret war with globalist Democratic pedophilesthink the text could mark the start of The Storm, a fantastical MAGA dream in which Trumps political enemies will be arrested and tried at military tribunals.
That is how we will receive orders if all else fails, wrote one QAnon believer on the 8Chan internet forum. We are the next generation Minutemen! Standing by Sir!
SO HAPPY! wrote another. THANK YOU 45!
The text itself was as mundane as a nation-wide emergency test could be. While it came to phones as a Presidential Alert, it wasnt sent out by Trump. FEMA controls the system.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/qanoners-cheer-trumps-text-alert-test-see-it-as-a-step-towards-martial-law
Did anyone else get this?
https://twitter.com/jimmykimmel/status/1047552325668065280Omg, Christian Bale as Dick Cheney in the official trailer for movie "Vice"
https://twitter.com/THR/status/1047494241125974017Oh, FFS! APNewsBreak: Trump's EPA moving to loosen radiation limits
WASHINGTON (AP) The Trump administration is quietly moving to weaken U.S. radiation regulations, turning to scientific outliers who argue that a bit of radiation damage is actually good for you like a little bit of sunlight.
The governments current, decades-old guidance says that any exposure to harmful radiation is a cancer risk. And critics say the proposed change could lead to higher levels of exposure for workers at nuclear installations and oil and gas drilling sites, medical workers doing X-rays and CT scans, people living next to Superfund sites and any members of the public who one day might find themselves exposed to a radiation release.
The Trump administration already has targeted a range of other regulations on toxins and pollutants, including coal power plant emissions and car exhaust, that it sees as costly and burdensome for businesses. Supporters of the EPAs new radiation guidance argue the governments current no-tolerance rule for radiation damage forces unnecessary spending for handling exposure in accidents, at nuclear plants, in medical centers and at other sites.
This would have a positive effect on human health as well as save billions and billions and billions of dollars, Edward Calabrese, a toxicologist at the University of Massachusetts, said in 2016. He was to be the lead witness at a congressional hearing Wednesday on EPAs push for what it calls transparency in science.The proposed rule would require regulators to consider various threshold models across the exposure range when it comes to dangerous substances.
https://apnews.com/6a573b6b020e453c90ecd5e84aa23f57?utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&__twitter_impression=true
Samuel Jackson and Brett Kavanaugh (yes , he was there *wink*)
https://twitter.com/ohboyson/status/1045604378370027520Feinstein's staff did not leak the letter to The Intercept - DC bureau chief of The Intercept
https://twitter.com/ryangrim/status/1045441295282556928Feinstein's staff did not leak the letter to The Intercept
99 percent of Hurricane Matthew aid requested by NC denied by Trump administration
This article is from May 10, 2017. I posted it to point out that eastern NC is still trying to recover from hurricane Matthew , thanks to Trump. Gov. Roy Cooper's a Democrat, therefore not a Trump loyalist. That's the only explanation I can think of for denying aid. It'll be interesting to see if he's more forthcoming with aid due to the midterms. Either way Trump doesn't give a shit about the people of this country.
RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) - The State of North Carolina requested $929 million from the federal government to help with costs associated with Hurricane Matthew, but the state will be receiving far less than that, according to an announcement by Gov. Roy Cooper
North Carolina will receive only $6.1 million from the Trump administration. That's 99 percent less than the requested amount.
In a letter Cooper sent to the president and other officials today, he expressed "shock and disappointment in the lack of federal funding for Hurricane Matthew recovery efforts."The governor had worked with Sen. Thom Tillis and Representatives David Price (D) and Rep. David Rouzer (R) in April to come up with a request to Congress to help cover the costs associated with the destruction left by Matthew.
The $929 million requested would have been used to "help communities and families fix homes, repair businesses and recover from the historic flooding," Cooper said.
https://www.cbs17.com/news/north-carolina-news/99-percent-of-hurricane-matthew-funds-requested-by-nc-denied-by-trump-administration/1017049914
U.S. is denying passports to Americans along the border, throwing their citizenship into question
HARR, Tex. On paper, hes a devoted U.S. citizen.
His official American birth certificate shows he was delivered by a midwife in Brownsville, at the southern tip of Texas. He spent his life wearing American uniforms: three years as a private in the Army, then as a cadet in the Border Patrol and now as a state prison guard.
But when Juan, 40, applied to renew his U.S. passport this year, the governments response floored him. In a letter, the State Department said it didnt believe he was an American citizen.
As he would later learn, Juan is one of a growing number of people whose official birth records show they were born in the United States but who are now being denied passports their citizenship suddenly thrown into question. The Trump administration is accusing hundreds, and possibly thousands, of Hispanics along the border of using fraudulent birth certificates since they were babies, and it is undertaking a widespread crackdown on their citizenship.
In a statement, the State Department said that it has not changed policy or practice regarding the adjudication of passport applications, adding that the U.S.-Mexico border region happens to be an area of the country where there has been a significant incidence of citizenship fraud.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/us-is-denying-passports-to-americans-along-the-border-throwing-their-citizenship-into-question/2018/08/29/1d630e84-a0da-11e8-a3dd-2a1991f075d5_story.html?utm_term=.113fced4f20b
Birtherism has become official US policy
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