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turbinetree's JournalSanders Cuts Off CNN Reporters Questions On VA Nom: Im Finished
Source: Talking Points Memo
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders grew agitated with CNN’s Jim Acosta on Wednesday as he peppered her with questions about embattled Veterans Affairs nominee Dr. Ronny Jackson.
Acosta began his line of questioning by asking about President Donald Trump’s comment Tuesday that there’s an “experience problem” with Jackson as he faces Senate confirmation. Acosta asked Sanders if it was fair to say Jackson lacks the proper experience to run the VA.
“That’s not what the President said. I think you’re taking some of his words out of context. I know you don’t appreciate when people take your words out of context. I’d appreciate it if you not do that to the President,” Sanders replied. “He said that had been one of the questions people had posed about him.”
The CNN reporter later asked if the Trump administration is a champion of the free press, referencing Sanders comment that context is important.
Read more: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/sanders-acosta-ronny-jackson-im-finished
OKAY, lackey................your traitor said that he never met Stormy Daniels, but he supposedly signed the NDA.............., your criminal narcissistic malignant psychopathic liar said that he never went to Moscow.............what part of your bullshit there Sanders is the truth.................because I was always told when you bullshit you lie...................and if around twenty military retired and still active state that good old Ronny was handing out Opioids like candy and got his nick name the "candyman" who is telling the truth.................and why would this Ronny lie about the weight and height when giving a physical, isn't that against military fitness , especially the supposed president.......................
November 2018 cannot get here fast enough
Sammy Davis Jr. - The Candy Man (1972)
Canadas level-headed response to the Toronto van attack shocks the rest of the world
Canadian media and law enforcement stayed away from hyperbole and excessive use of force.
D. PARVAZ APR 24, 2018, 1:24 PM
The international media is noting the response of Canadian authorities after a Canadian man driving a van struck and killed several people on a sidewalk in Toronto on Monday.
In a scene similar to what we’ve seen unfold in several countries — France, Germany, and the United States, to name a few — Alek Minassian, 25, killed 10 people and injured 15 after he drove onto a crowded sidewalk.
The Canadian media has been measured in trying to determine the Minassian’s motives, avoiding any speculation that could link Minassian to a terrorist group, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau immediately released a statement saying that there was no national security component to the attack:
Footage shot by a witness shows Minassian waving an object at a police officer, saying he has a gun, and asking the officer to kill him. The office calmly replies, “I don’t care. Get down.” He is taken down and handcuffed without any apparent injuries.
https://thinkprogress.org/canada-response-toronto-van-attack-shocks-world-873e4bbea5a4/
Not in this country the media (television) was hoping and reporting how this murder was just like some Middle East situation, all day long and then when it was coming out that it was a asshole, that thinks it just fine and dandy to attack woman, because they get spurned, it wasn't newsworthy enough so they quit reporting..........it wasn't a terrorist attack from the Middle East , they cannot inflame the issue anymore.......................
Why Toronto Attackers Praise Of Elliot Rodger Would Be No Surprise
By Allegra Kirkland | April 25, 2018 6:00 am
Shortly after police say Alek Minassian plowed a rental van down a Toronto sidewalk Monday, killing 10 people and injuring 15 others, a Facebook post circulated in which he appeared to praise Elliot Rodger, the 22-year-old Californian who blamed his 2014 killing spree on his rejection by women.
“All hail the Supreme Gentleman Elliot Rodger,” the message read in part.
Canadian law enforcement acknowledged in a Tuesday press conference that Minassian “is alleged to have posted a cryptic message on Facebook minutes before” he got into the vehicle. And Facebook confirmed to outlets including TPM that the since-deleted account belonged to the suspect.
Many important details about the case are still unknown, and extremist experts noted that it’s odd that the post contained no other messages expressing an affiliation with the misogynistic, hateful ideology Rodger espoused. But they also told TPM that Rodger has become an icon among the most extreme members of the men’s rights and “incel,” or “involuntary celibate,” communities. And they said they wouldn’t be surprised if Rodger inspired the gruesome Toronto attack.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/alek-minassian-elliot-rodger-legacy-incel-comunity
I have just got to ask, the media ( television) was all over this linking it to a terrorist attack from the Middle East, because of the method of this wanton murdering , and when it was discovered that it wasn't from someone linked to the Middle East.......they dropped this with no more reporting............................
Here you have a asshole that couldn't get a date blaming his entire asshole bullshit problems on a women in general and his cult, and the media hoping that they could link the crime to middle east persona and then finding out it wasn't shows that this country has a big problem in the media journalistic frame of reporting just for ratings, but instead take the position of inflaming and inciting more violence from one culture to another of saying see, see, see, and when it was because of this "incel" crap, they don't want to speak about and give a in-depth reporting of people that inflict violence on woman..................
Hey media especially (television) you are really fucked up.............and everyone of your bosses should be fired, Edward R. Murrow, Chet Huntley, Walter Cronkite, etc.....................would be shaking there collective heads.............and saying, you are not journalists
In The Ohio Governors Race, The Future Of Medicaid Hangs In The Balance
By Alice Ollstein | April 25, 2018 6:00 am
Ohio bucked the national trend in 2013, expanding Medicaid under a Republican governor and state legislature, but that expansion could now be in jeopardy. While the Democrats running for governor in 2018 have vowed to preserve the expansion, the GOP frontrunner wants a more aggressive federal waiver to impose work requirements and other restrictions, and his primary opponent has vowed to kill the expansion entirely.
Ohio’s May primary and November general election will determine the future of health care in a state whose death toll from opioid overdoses is second in the nation, and whose rural hospitals depend heavily on Medicaid for their survival.
Since Ohio Gov. John Kasich became one of very few Republican governors to embrace the expansion of Medicaid under Obamacare, the state has expanded coverage to roughly 700,000 previously uninsured people. Even though Kasich garnered a massive political backlash because of the move, he has since urged other GOP states to follow him and beaten back attempts from his own state party to chip away at the program. In 2017, he vetoed a bill passed by the Republican supermajority in the state legislature that would have frozen Medicaid enrollment and forced low-income enrollees to pay insurance premiums.
Any day now, however, Kasich will submit a request to the Department of Health and Human Services for permission to force those enrolled in the state’s Medicaid expansion to prove they’re working at least 80 hours per month. If the waiver is approved by the Trump administration, Ohioans unable to find work would have get placed with an organization in their county and work without pay to earn the value of their health care benefits.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/in-the-ohio-governors-race-the-future-of-medicaid-hangs-in-the-balance
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Cordray added that he considers Kasich’s push for work requirements, endorsed by both Taylor and DeWine, “really stupid.”
“It’s a health care program. It’s not a work program,” Cordray said. “First of all, most of those people are disabled or they’re already looking for work. So it’s really a symbolic thing they want to do — a political statement. It’s going to apply to a very small slice [of people], but it’s really going to hurt that slice. What’s it going to do? It’s going to push them out of the health care system, and eventually they’re going to need treatment and they’ll come to the emergency room and we’ll all pay the price for that.”
here is a solution:
https://secure.actblue.com/directory/OH/all/governor?year=current
Mulvaney: I Only Talked To Lobbyists Who Donated To My Congressional Campaign
Source: Talking Points Memo
By Caitlin MacNeal | April 25, 2018 7:04 am
Mick Mulvaney, the director of the White House’s Office of Budget and Management, told banking officials on Tuesday that while he was a congressman, he had a policy of only talking to lobbyists who donated to his campaign, the New York Times reported.
“We had a hierarchy in my office in Congress,” Mulvaney said at an American Bankers Association conference in Washington, D.C., according to the New York Times. “If you’re a lobbyist who never gave us money, I didn’t talk to you. If you’re a lobbyist who gave us money, I might talk to you.”
Mulvaney, who also serves as the interim director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, added that his main priority as a congressman was his constituents.
“If you came from back home and sat in my lobby, I talked to you without exception, regardless of the financial contributions,” he said, per the New York Times.
Read more: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/mulvaney-i-prioritized-lobbyists-who-donated
Hey Mick, can I call you Mick......................FUCK YOU, seriously Go Fuck yourself, POS
"If you came from back home and sat in my lobby, I talked to you without exception, regardless of the financial contributions,” he said, per the New York Times."
Your Open Secrets record say your full of proverbial shit when you speak...................
https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/summary?cid=N00031412
November 2018 cannot get here fast enough
Shutdown of Texas Schools Probe Shows Trump Administration Pullback on Civil Rights
The U.S. Department of Education was investigating why black students in Bryan, Texas, are almost four times as likely as white students to be suspended. Then Betsy DeVos took over.
by Annie Waldman April 23, 5 a.m. EDT
This story was co-published with Mother Jones.
Beside a highway in Bryan, Texas, tucked between a motorcycle bar and the county jail, stands a low-slung, sprawling complex with tinted windows, sandstone walls and barbed wire lining parts of its roof. A roadside sign identifies it as the Brazos County Juvenile Justice Center.
One Friday afternoon last October, after an incident at nearby Arthur L. Davila Middle School, a police officer arrested 13-year-old Trah’Vaeziah Jackson and brought her to the juvenile detention facility. She cried as employees patted her down, cut off her hair extensions, and took her photo and fingerprints. She was served dinner — chicken nuggets, mashed potatoes and an apple in a styrofoam box with a carton of milk — but had no appetite.
In the shower room, guards applied thick anti-lice shampoo to Trah’Vaeziah’s hair. As she washed and combed it, clumps fell out. Afterwards, she reluctantly changed from her school clothes, a T-shirt and jeans, into the detention uniform, an orange shirt with matching shorts. Then she was locked in her cell, which contained a sink, a toilet, and, instead of a bed, a stuffed blue mat atop a brick base. High on the wall was a sliver of a window, but she wasn’t tall enough to see outside.
Only after 8 p.m. was she permitted a phone call. She called her mother and sobbed into the receiver. How could this accident have turned into a jail sentence?
https://www.propublica.org/article/shutdown-of-bryan-texas-schools-probe-shows-trump-administration-pullback-on-civil-rights
SCOTUS Conservatives Show Little Issue With Texas Delay Tactics In Voting Rights Case
Source: Talking Points Memo
No matter what the Supreme Court does with the Texas redistricting case it heard Tuesday, Texas Republicans have already won, in a way, in how they have been able to drag out the litigation over their 2011 state legislative and U.S. congressional map.
The conservative faction of the Supreme Court — whose questioning was dominated by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito — signaled that it had no problem with the most recent round of delay tactics Texas employed to get the case back in front of the high court for a second time.
The case is called Abbott v. Perez, and it stems from multiple challenges to the legislative maps Texas drew after the 2010 Census. One question the Supreme Court examined was whether this was even the proper juncture for it to intervene. A three-judge district court in San Antonio has issued multiple rulings finding the maps discriminatory against Latino and African American voters, but had not yet completed the remedy stage when Texas successfully sought a stay in the case from Justice Samuel Alito.
The liberals on the court stressed that intervening now would open the doors for any case to seek Supreme Court review without a final ruling or a formal preliminary injunction.
Read more: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/texas-voting-rights-delay-tactics-scotus
This is why when you vote in elections you vote for people to be placed on a court, one is progressive, while on the other side of right wing bullshit they are regressive..................that is a simple fact..................
November 2018 cannot get here fast enough
The Supreme Courts original sin in gerrymandering cases
Few matters capture the pathology of the Roberts Court more completely than the two Abbott v. Perez cases, a pair of identically named racial gerrymandering cases that the Supreme Court will hear on Tuesday.
The Perez cases are about partisan gamesmanship. In 2013, the state of Texas admitted in a brief filed in a federal court that their “redistricting decisions were designed to increase the Republican Party’s electoral prospects at the expense of the Democrats.” They did so because they believed, based on the Supreme Court’s own partisan gerrymandering decisions, that the Court would do nothing to stop such gerrymandering. Texas’ calculation may yet prove to be correct.
The Perezes are cases about delay. Texas enacted its gerrymandered maps in 2011, and while those maps were partially altered in 2013, a federal court found that portions of those maps were illegal racial gerrymanders in 2017. It’s now 2018 and, thanks in part to the Supreme Court’s intervention, it is all but certain that the gerrymandered maps will be in effect during this year’s midterm elections. Even if the Supreme Court ultimately rules against Texas, their decision is likely to only impact one election — the 2020 races — before the Census requires the state to draw a new set of maps.
https://thinkprogress.org/supreme-court-texas-gerrymandering-587effd27894/
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Even before the Roberts Era, the Supreme Court never quite got this fact. The Court’s failure to understand that redistricting is a special area of the law requiring extra scrutiny is the original sin of its gerrymandering jurisprudence. It is the reason why Texas is able to get away with employing the maps it has now.
Perez threatens to make matters even worse. At the very moment when the Court’s right flank wants to seize a larger role in shaping American policy, the same flank appears completely unconcerned by efforts to rig elections.
Chief Justice Roberts spent the morning showcasing how impossibly naive he is on matters of race
Abbott v. Perez is a case of mind-numbing procedural complexity. It involves Texas’ successful efforts to draw gerrymandered maps in 2011 — maps that were eventually found to be an illegal racial gerrymander by a federal court — and then maintain as much of these illegal maps as possible for as long as possible after the fact. It is a case about race discrimination, partisan gamesmanship, and rather blatant attempts to manipulate the legal system.
Or, if you are Chief Justice John Roberts, it is an opportunity to plant a flag for white racial innocence.
Perez (which is technically two consolidated cases with the same name), involves two different versions of Texas’ congressional and state legislative maps. The first set were drawn in 2011 as part of Texas’ obligation to draw new maps every ten years following the Census. The second were drawn in 2012 by a federal court under highly unusually and rushed conditions, and then adopted into Texas law by the state legislature in 2013.
https://thinkprogress.org/chief-justice-roberts-is-naive-on-matters-of-race-694f66339220/
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More than half a century ago, Congress recognized that this kind of delay was inherent in voting rights litigation. That is why Congress enacted the Voting Rights Act of 1965, with its requirement that certain election laws be scrutinized before they take effect. The way to stop voter suppression is to stop it before it happens.
But, of course, Chief Justice Roberts struck down that provision of the Voting Rights Act, because he thinks that America isn’t racist enough.
He should be Impeached.......................
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