Just like she has a list of shit ready to attack the media, can the media please bring a list of shit Fox News said about Obama during his presidency? And actually not even just during his presidency, I'm sure they're still railing on him and president Hillary on a daily basis.
"Has the President ever considered that the overwhelmingly negative press coverage is because he's doing a poor job and maybe he should have a moment of self-reflection rather than attacking the fundamentally American value of a free press?" - What they should have asked
Not only did SHS not make the official statement that the press is not the enemy of the people, she doubled down and stated she only speaks on behalf of the President who made his statements clear...which means the official position of the White House is that the press is the enemy of the people.
if R's don't do it first Dems will not pay a political price for ending the 60 vote threshold in the senate if he keeps demanding it happen (Farm Bill will die if it keeps work requirements ftr)
I work at a sports bar as a side hustle a couple times a week and the kitchen guys from Mexico and I always oversalt the french fries to "kill the gringo"
I'm not even sure where to start. She says she speaks for the president (you know, the man who very clearly said he grabs women by the pussy) and then goes on a tangent about how she has been treated unfairly.
Can somebody explain why they are deporting spouses of American citizens? I thought marrying an American gets a green card or something like that
Not now. Citizen spous has gotta apply, couple has to go in for an interview several months later, then you're conditional resident for two years. You get permanent resident after that then you can become a citizen 5 years later.
"We love our farmers, a group of over 90% white Republicans, and while we help them with a requirement-less welfare check from the government for an issue in the market we created, let's give a backhand slap to the impoverished, a group of mostly minorities, and limit the assistance they get for being poor, an issue we've always neglected to address!"
from thehill.com Preventing the suicide of American democracy By Jeremy Rosner and Brian Paler, opinion contributors — 08/02/18 01:30 PM EDT 201 The views expressed by contributors are their own and not the view of The Hill © Getty Images John Adams was not particularly optimistic about democracy. In an 1814 letter, he wrote: “Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” A new study of American public attitudes suggests our democracy indeed may be heading toward a cliff, but it also suggests ways we can pull it back toward health and long-term survival. The study was commissioned by Freedom House, the George W. Bush Institute, and the Penn Biden Center. It’s notable, during this polarized era, in part because of its bipartisan sponsorship and design. Our Democratic polling firm carried out the research jointly with a Republican polling firm. (The views here are strictly our own, however.) Spoiler The study — which included 10 focus groups and a nationally representative phone poll of 1,400 voting age adults with a representative mix of Democrats, Republicans and independents — finds Americans feel our democracy is at the edge of a crisis of confidence. Although there has been no fall-off in recent years in the public’s overwhelming support for the idea of democracy, the level of dissatisfaction with our democracy’s performance is alarming. In three key questions in the survey, a 55 percent majority say our democracy is weak, 68 percent say it is getting weaker, and 79 percent are concerned about our democracy’s condition. While many elements of public opinion about our government follow partisan patterns, serious concern about the health of our democracy crosses party lines. Over two-thirds feel this among Democrats, Republicans and Independents alike. Comments from participants in our research show this is not only about Donald Trump. The democratic ills they cite almost entirely pre-date President Trump — things such as increased political polarization, the growing role of special interest money in politics, and declining trust in the federal government, media outlets and other public and civic institutions. These trends all have been building for decades, but now are reaching a breaking point for the public. Yet, in two related ways, Trump bears responsibility for deepening this crisis of democratic confidence. First, his comments have fanned America’s always smoldering flames of racial resentment. A new Quinnipiac poll shows a 49-47 percent plurality believes not just that he has inflamed racial tensions but that the president does, in fact, hold racist views. Our survey finds “racism and discrimination” is one of the two things that concern the public most about our democracy (from a list of 11 factors), roughly tied with “big money in politics.” Among all adults under 40, and all non-whites, it is the top concern. This is the first study to identify racial tensions as a primary factor now undermining our democracy. Our focus groups underscored how people perceive that Trump is exacerbating racial tensions. An African-American woman in Indianapolis said: “America has a tone since Trump that has brought out things that were suppressed. ... People hold it in but now it’s coming out and boiling over.” Her point seemed to be confirmed by a Trump voter in Pittsburgh, who said: “We got … people that went into construction — getting smashed by illegal immigrants — there are very few white American men working on the construction sites.” In one group, white and non-white voters sparred about NFL players kneeling during the national anthem, a conflict that Trump inflamed beginning with his campaign. Disturbingly, a 50-41 percent majority of whites in our survey saw “equal rights and protections for minorities” getting better in America, while a 63-31 percent majority of non-whites saw it getting worse. Second, while democratic principles remain important to most Americans, Trump has built his strategy partly on rallying those who place little value on democratic notions of equality and freedom of the press. Only 7 percent of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 voters do not say it is important to live in a democracy; but among Trump’s voters, the figure is over three times as high, 22 percent. That is still a minority. But given Trump’s roughly 63 million votes in 2016, that 22 percent translates to over 13 million people. As we saw from the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville — which happened a year ago next Sunday — it only takes hundreds or thousands of people with low regard for democracy to have a corrosive impact on our political system. Trump has actively played to this fringe, by calling the press “the enemy of the people,” attacking the patriotism of his partisan rivals, denigrating the idea of an independent judiciary, and refusing to protect America’s electoral system from confirmed foreign interference. If Trump is not the source of America’s democratic crisis, he is certainly working hard to deepen it. Fortunately, the study shows steps that leaders can take to push back on such assaults on our democracy. It shows overwhelming, bipartisan support for steps such as stronger limits and disclosure of federal campaign contributions, rules to make it easier to vote, and stronger protections against racial bias in policing and criminal sentencing. Above all, the research shows strong public desire for a new call to public service, as in JFK’s day, with 81 percent supporting incentives for young people to serve their country or community. All this suggests that, if there is some tendency toward democratic suicide, as John Adams speculated, the driving force is not our public, but rather certain leaders, such as Mr. Trump. Jeremy D. Rosner is a partner at the Democratic polling firm of Greenberg Quinlan Rosner in Washington, D.C. He earlier served as a senior staff member on President Clinton’s National Security Council. Brian Paler is a vice president at Greenberg Quinlan Rosner. He previously worked for the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs in the Balkans and Eastern Europe, and has held research positions at the Middle East Institute and United Nations Development Programme.
Literally the job of the federal reserve is to keep millions of people unemployed, with unemployment targets, so there's always a surplus of labor to justify keeping wages stagnant and expand profits.
Having a target unemployment rate means they have a goal of keeping millions unemployed. Having a target unemployment rate gives capitalists a specific bargaining chip to bid the lowest cost to workers for their labor. https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/economy_14424.htm https://www.axios.com/federal-reser...lls-bc96a532-7b15-45ca-ae21-4421864daf9c.html