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turbinetree's JournalRobert De Niro on Donald Trump
Robert De Niro: 'Trump is a real racist, a white supremacist'
The notoriously reticent star has become one of the most vocal critics of Donald Trump. He talks about how the man in the White House makes mobsters look bad, the damage being done to America – and how he fears for his mixed-race children
Here, with Orson Welles and Spike Lee on the walls, and James Dean and Natalie Wood on the doors to the toilets, is where Robert De Niro might have died. In October, a pipe bomb addressed to the actor was sent to the New York warehouse where his film production company hugs an atrium dotted with vintage movie posters.
A security guard found the suspicious package in the mailroom at 5am and police vehicles swarmed the Tribeca neighbourhood before dawn. De Niro got a call from security early that morning telling him the pipe bomb was being removed. “Naturally you are concerned,” he says phlegmatically. “It’s just what it is. Just be careful.”
Cesar Sayoc, a bodybuilder, pizza deliveryman and fanatical supporter of Donald Trump, was subsequently arrested in Florida and charged with sending a total of 13 pipe bombs to Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and other critics of the president. De Niro says only: “There are a lot of crazy people out there. Everybody’s got their reasons.”
How did the double Oscar-winner find himself on a hit list alongside Obama and Clinton? The short answer is that De Niro has become one of the most colourful, pugnacious and unsubtle decriers of the Trump presidency.
The late politicisation of De Niro is all the more remarkable because of his reputation as a man of few words, notorious for responding to journalists’ questions with terse monosyllables. He stormed out of interviews with the BBC’s Barry Norman – who rashly gave chase – and with the Radio Times, claiming he was being asked questions with a “negative inference”. The New York Times mused in 1993: “No one, perhaps, is better suited to being an actor and less suited to being a personality.”
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/jan/06/robert-de-niro-trump-is-a-real-racist-a-white-supremacist
Britons would now vote to stay in EU, want second referendum: poll
Source: Reuters
WORLD NEWS JANUARY 6, 2019 / 5:16 AM / UPDATED 2 HOURS AGO
LONDON (Reuters) - More Britons want to remain a member of the European Union than leave, according to a survey published on Sunday which also showed voters want to make the final decision themselves.
Britain is due leave the EU on March 29, but Prime Minister Theresa May is struggling to get her exit deal approved by parliament, opening up huge uncertainty over whether a deal is possible, or even whether the country will leave at all.
The survey by polling firm YouGov showed that if a referendum were held immediately, 46 percent would vote to remain, 39 percent would vote to leave, and the rest either did not know, would not vote, or refused to answer the question.
When the undecided and those who refused to answer were removed from the sample, the split was 54-46 in favor of remaining.
That is broadly in line with other polls in recent months which show a deeply divided electorate, in which opinion has swung towards remaining in the EU. The 2016 referendum voted 52 to 48 percent in favor of leaving.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-poll/britons-would-now-vote-to-stay-in-eu-want-second-referendum-poll-idUSKCN1P006O
First and Foremost Prime Minister Theresa May is trying her damnedest to be like Margret Thatcher....................if she can get this initiative passed, her libertarian Tory party will go after more social programs to gut and become more racist (sounds like the libertarian republicans in the US).
And her policies are going after and will have a direct problem with the aviation industry in the country.......................British Airways is owned by Iberia Airlines as a partner, in another example is Ryan Air which holds a 20% stake in Flybe
(https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ryanair-outlook/ryanair-says-not-seeing-any-brexit-impact-well-prepared-for-no-deal-idUSKCN1NQ1JM)
This Breixt bull shit goes after those arrangement.
Airbus will pick up and leave and take 14,000 aviation jobs and put them back in France and Germany.
Theresa May and her party are worried about Ireland wanting to break from the Kingdom, one has to look at Flybe to see the economic impact.
And then there is Scotland, and the ship building up there ( Queen Elizabeth II) was built there, the Scots did try to leave the United Kingdom).
Then there is the Oil reserves in the North Sea.
The financial markets which are the main drivers in the country such as London would move.
And then there is NATO
http://ukandeu.ac.uk/brexit-and-nato-an-essential-piece-of-the-puzzle/
Yep May and her crowd own this shit..........................I guess her and her Tory party are in many ways like humpty dumpty.....................
GOP senator demands Democrats 'bend over backwards' for Trump
By Oliver Willis - January 4, 2019
A Republican senator who blocked President Obama's Supreme Court nomination now says Congress should do whatever Trump wants.
Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) is insisting that Democrats “bend over backwards” to fund Trump’s racist border wall to end the government shutdown he engineered.
Alexander made the comments Thursday, from the Senate floor, disingenuously suggesting that giving in to Trump’s extreme and unpopular demands somehow honors the tradition of bipartisan compromise — a tradition Alexander’s party pointedly did away with under President Obama.
“Democrats should recognize now as I did that when an elected president, one elected by the people of the United States, whatever you may think of him, has a legitimate objective, you should bend over backwards to try to meet that objective if you want a result,” the Republican senator said.
https://shareblue.com/gop-senator-alexander-lamar-demands-democrats-bend-over-backwards-for-trump/
Hey Lamar, can I call you Lamar.................go F yourself
Dear Seema Verma, head of the CMS (Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services)
AS a new Congress has been put in place to investigate the shenanigans of your leadership and cronyism, you have been on let's say, a quest to Shred the Social Safety Net ..
You have stated on your twitter account: "This years scariest Halloween costume goes to_ a picture of some one wearing a Medicare for All t-shirt. Then you further commented that "Did I get your attention. Good." Medicare for All isn't a joke. Its a multi trillion dollar drain on the American economy that will bankrupt future generations. It's government controlled health care that will strip choice away from millions. It is a bad idea. And its is scary."
Your alternative Verma is exactly what? You and your corrupt enabling criminal team want people to work for health care if they are on Medicaid, and you and your team is reclassifying disabilities that are so extreme that it calls into question your veracity along with the right wing libertarian backed Koch's and the medical oligarchy, and the governors in this country that are trying to implement your program of servitude to the masses.................you know let them eat cake.
You signed off on a plan in Wisconsin to do this to the people of the state, prior to the mid terms (but now there is new governor in the state and another one by Paul Lepage from Maine is going to Florida to reap the benefits of being a senior asshole grifter off the programs he was trying to stop its citizens from having, you know Medicare, and Social Security and if need be Medicaid.
And that you and them had a criteria that anyone on Medicaid had to prove they needed it, that you and him and others were and are trying to force this extra burden down on human beings, in such places as Arkansas, Kentucky and other right wing fascist libertarian governors are trying to do implement).
And now the question that needs to be asked now, have you studied up for a investigation on your past practices, because you can be rest assured that I am going to call Nita Lowey Chairwoman Committee of Appropriations and Rosa DeLauro, Chairwoman of the sub-committee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies to bring you and others before congress to explain your actions and who you are beholden too..............
And Seema Verma, if you want to get up to speed there is past article in Mother Jones from the Jan/ Feb edition, that pretty much says it all about you and your policy..............so brush up..................I can't wait for the hearings...............because I want to know about Maximus profits...................I hope you have a really bad day.................
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/12/how-one-company-is-making-millions-off-trumps-war-on-the-poor/
November 3, 2020 cannot get here fast enough......................
Can anyone on DU pull up Maddow's segment concerning Trump meeting when he mouthed off
And how trump said that the Russian invasion into Afghanistan was good thing...............and the Montenegro item with the former Russian Ambassador McFaul in her segment last night and his cabinet meeting when he spouted out some stuff...............that sounded like talking points from the Russians ....................I think Maddow may be on to something..................
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-curiously-well-versed-in-specific-russian-talking-points-1419581507654
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-parrots-russian-revisionism-on-soviet-afghanistan-invasion-1419575875862
I can go to the MSNBC web site and see the two videos and it is pretty amazing, when taken has a whole.............
If so I would like to see if there is a link to the above and the US Supreme Court stepping into the fray with a looking at the Mueller issues with the foreign company.............because I don't know if this video has anything to do with it.............but it seems that they are all linked..................maybe not...................Thanks
New Rep. Tells Cheering Crowd: 'We're Going To Impeach The Motherf*cker'
By Kate Riga
January 4, 2019 9:20 am
Hours after being sworn in as a new congresswoman on Thursday, Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) dropped a bomb on an issue around which most Democrats have been walking on eggshells.
“‘Look, Mama, you won. Bullies don’t win,’” Tlaib quoted her son to the crowd at a MoveOn reception. “And I said, ‘Baby, they don’t.’ Because we’re gonna go in there and impeach the motherfucker.”
The crowd erupted.
President Donald Trump apparently saw Tlaib’s speech and reacted with bewilderment Friday morning.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/tlaib-going-to-impeach-motherfucker
His tweets say everything about his delusion........................he cannot for the life he sees what is happening..............no fricking clue................none.......................
November 3, 2020 cannot get here fast enough.....................
Zinke Likens His Environmental Rollbacks To Teddy Roosevelt's Legacy
By MATTHEW BROWN
January 4, 2019 9:41 am
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — As former U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke exits Washington amid a cloud of unresolved investigations and criticism of his actions favoring industry, he told The Associated Press that he has lived up to the conservation ideals of Teddy Roosevelt and insisted that the myriad allegations against him will be proven untrue.
The former Montana congressman also said he quit President Donald Trump’s cabinet on his own terms, despite indications he was pressured by the White House to resign effective Wednesday.
During almost two years overseeing an agency responsible for managing 500 million acres of public lands, Zinke’s broad rollbacks of restrictions on oil and gas drilling were cheered by industry. But they brought a scathing backlash from environmental groups and Democratic lawmakers who accused him of putting corporate profits ahead of preservation.
In his first interview since Trump announced his resignation last month, Zinke said the changes he made at Interior meshed with Roosevelt’s beliefs and were needed to unfetter energy companies held back by unreasonable drilling curbs imposed under former President Barack Obama.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/zinke-first-interview-since-resignation
No asshole, you are not Teddy Roosevelt in the delusion you live, your not even close, your a liar and a cheat......................and your going to be just like the Teapot Dome issue.....................and you will be convicted of your crimes in my opinion...............................so FU........................
With Major Elections Bill, House Dems Get Ball Rolling On Fixing Voting Rights Act
Source: Talking Points Memo
By Tierney Sneed
January 4, 2019 6:00 am
A major legislative package of democracy reforms House Democrats will introduce on Friday is both a notable marker of the emphasis the new majority wants to put on voting rights and the beginning of the process by which Democrats hope to restore the Voting Rights Act, which the Supreme Court gutted in 2013.
According to a summary of the package sent to reporters, the bill — known as “We the People Democracy Reform Act” or HR1 — makes a congressional finding that the 2013 decision in Shelby County v. Holder led to a wave of voter suppression and instructs Congress to build a record upon the finding.
The House is expected to consider a separate bill that would restore the provision of the Voting Rights Act that the Supreme Court dismantled. That provision required states and localities with a history of racial voter discrimination to get election policy changes pre-approved by the federal government. The bill to address head on the Shelby County decision is moving on its own track, a House Democratic aide told TPM, so the House can build a record of the voter suppression that has happened since the decision came down. Such a public record, legal experts believe, will help protect a VRA fix, if passed, from court challenges conservatives may try to bring against it.
The “We the People” legislation Democratic leaders will be touting at a press conference Friday morning will not include that VRA fix. However, it includes several other provisions expanding the franchise that have been championed by voting rights activists, such as automatic voter registration, same day voter registration, mandated early voting, a requirement that states set up independent redistricting commissions to prevent gerrymander, and a campaign finance overhaul.
Read more: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/house-democrats-will-introduce-bill-to-fix-voting-rights-act
Lets see what the senate does.......................
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