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Old 01-16-2018, 09:36 PM
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Democratic norms erode within the United States

From Freedom House's report Democracy in Crisis. Summary: Donny is doing serious damage to democracy here and around the world. He's a disaster.

https://freedomhouse.org/report/free...dom-world-2018

The past year brought further, faster erosion of America’s own democratic standards than at any other time in memory, damaging its international credibility as a champion of good governance and human rights.

The United States has experienced a series of setbacks in the conduct of elections and criminal justice over the past decade—under leadership from both major political parties—but in 2017 its core institutions were attacked by an administration that rejects established norms of ethical conduct across many fields of activity. President Trump himself has mingled the concerns of his business empire with his role as president, appointed family members to his senior staff, filled other high positions with lobbyists and representatives of special interests, and refused to abide by disclosure and transparency practices observed by his predecessors.

The president has also lambasted and threatened the media—including sharp jabs at individual journalists—for challenging his routinely false statements, spoken disdainfully of judges who blocked his decisions, and attacked the professional staff of law enforcement and intelligence agencies. He signals contempt for Muslims and Latin American immigrants and singles out some African Americans for vitriolic criticism. He pardoned a sheriff convicted of ignoring federal court orders to halt racially discriminatory policies and issued an executive order restricting travel to the United States from a group of Muslim-majority countries after making a campaign promise to ban all foreign Muslims from the United States. And at a time when millions around the world have been forced to flee war, terrorism, and ethnic cleansing, President Trump moved to implement major reductions in the number of legal immigrants and refugees that the United States would accept.

The president’s behavior stems in part from a frustration with the country’s democratic checks and balances, including the independent courts, a coequal legislative branch, the free press, and an active civil society. These institutions remained fairly resilient in 2017, but the administration’s statements and actions could ultimately leave them weakened, with serious consequences for the health of U.S. democracy and America’s role in the world.
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Old 01-17-2018, 05:49 AM
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Can't get rid of him fast enough.

Not just a turn of phrase, but the literal truth.
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Old 01-17-2018, 11:48 AM
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“Stormy Daniels” interview about sex with Donny in 2006, all 5500 words of it, to be published. This ought to play well in Peoria, lol.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/intouc...sex-with-trump
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Old 01-17-2018, 11:58 AM
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Democratic norms erode within the United States

From Freedom House's report Democracy in Crisis. Summary: Donny is doing serious damage to democracy here and around the world. He's a disaster.

https://freedomhouse.org/report/free...dom-world-2018

The past year brought further, faster erosion of America’s own democratic standards than at any other time in memory, damaging its international credibility as a champion of good governance and human rights.

The United States has experienced a series of setbacks in the conduct of elections and criminal justice over the past decade—under leadership from both major political parties—but in 2017 its core institutions were attacked by an administration that rejects established norms of ethical conduct across many fields of activity. President Trump himself has mingled the concerns of his business empire with his role as president, appointed family members to his senior staff, filled other high positions with lobbyists and representatives of special interests, and refused to abide by disclosure and transparency practices observed by his predecessors.

The president has also lambasted and threatened the media—including sharp jabs at individual journalists—for challenging his routinely false statements, spoken disdainfully of judges who blocked his decisions, and attacked the professional staff of law enforcement and intelligence agencies. He signals contempt for Muslims and Latin American immigrants and singles out some African Americans for vitriolic criticism. He pardoned a sheriff convicted of ignoring federal court orders to halt racially discriminatory policies and issued an executive order restricting travel to the United States from a group of Muslim-majority countries after making a campaign promise to ban all foreign Muslims from the United States. And at a time when millions around the world have been forced to flee war, terrorism, and ethnic cleansing, President Trump moved to implement major reductions in the number of legal immigrants and refugees that the United States would accept.

The president’s behavior stems in part from a frustration with the country’s democratic checks and balances, including the independent courts, a coequal legislative branch, the free press, and an active civil society. These institutions remained fairly resilient in 2017, but the administration’s statements and actions could ultimately leave them weakened, with serious consequences for the health of U.S. democracy and America’s role in the world.
The American Democracy works. Trump has largely failed.
The institution are indeed resilient.
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Old 01-17-2018, 12:13 PM
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The American Democracy works. Trump has largely failed.
The institution are indeed resilient.
Our democracy remains in danger until the idiot is removed from office, one way or another. He has done major damage, and continues to do so, to democracy worldwide. We must return to normalcy, ASAP.
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Old 01-17-2018, 03:02 PM
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FOX & friends
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“My father sees one color: Green. That’s all he cares about. He cares about the economy” - @EricTrump

Um, sure, Eric. We know he loves the green, so long as it’s incoming to his accounts.

Here’s a list of all those times your daddy did racist things. I know you don’t read, like your daddy, so just ask, I’ll read it for you.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...mp-racist.html
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Old 01-17-2018, 04:23 PM
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John Kelly to Congress: Trump lied during campaign to get votes.

https://nypost.com/2018/01/17/kelly-...nt-pay-for-it/

His biggest promise to the morons who voted for him? The wall! Paid for by Mexico!

Just foolin’. Ain’t gonna happen. Will his idiot base finally wake up?
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Old 01-17-2018, 04:50 PM
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Truth here, key word, "despot".
Flake's 20 most damning lines about Trump and the press

http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/17/politi...sis/index.html
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Old 01-17-2018, 10:26 PM
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.2eb9b45f6330

President Shithole's "Fake News Awards" crashes and burns...
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Old 01-18-2018, 08:57 AM
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It’s pointless to interview Donny

https://www.recode.net/2018/1/18/169...-media-podcast

“The whole purpose of interviewing a sitting president is that you can find out about their thinking, you can illuminate their policy choices, you can dig a little deeper into what they plan to do,” he said on the latest episode of Recode Media. “That assumes that the president has policy ideas.”

“In an interview situation, he’s just saying what — at the moment — makes him feel like the best, the biggest, the greatest, the brightest, the richest, the most potent,” Rosen added. “He’s just saying whatever comes to his mind as the most spectacular boast he can think of. It doesn’t necessarily mean anything about his policies.”
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