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The order is also a scam...it completely violates the Flores settlement.
Trump is using the most vulnerable as a battering ram in his ongoing attack on the rule of law.
If he can deny them of due process, brown skinned American citizens are next (Asians, don't count yourself as safe either) . How long before the new chant at his rallies becomes "lock them all up " ?
There a saying there goes the neighborhood. I am saying there goes "IRVINE"
Can you make your txt purple? Pink is a bit gay for me.
Seriously...wait a week. Effects of things like this take about a week or so to shake out. Last week, Trump had a like a 1-2% bump because of the optimism about NK. This issue and the tariff stuff will affect him in the next few weeks. Obviously, we have no idea what will happen in November but I can tell you that this stuff will be on TV ads all over the country come election time.
morekaos
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It's the economy, Stupid!!
Majority of Americans approve of Trump's handling of the economy for the first time: CNBC survey
Trump?s economic approval rating surged 6 points to 51 percent, according to the latest CNBC All-America Economic Survey.
Fifty-four percent say the economy is good or excellent, the highest recorded by CNBC in the 10 years of the survey.
The recent headlines on immigration have not hurt his ratings, according to the survey.
The rise in the president?s economic approval comes with growth running about a percentage point higher than it did during the Obama presidency, with unemployment near a 20-year low and amid what is believed to be a very strong quarter for growth. That has translated into positive views by the public on the economy that are reaching new records for the survey.
On specific policies, the president?s biggest winners are tax cuts for individuals and businesses and renegotiating trade deals.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/25/majority-of-americans-approve-of-trumps-handling-of-the-economy.html
Majority of Americans approve of Trump's handling of the economy for the first time: CNBC survey
Trump?s economic approval rating surged 6 points to 51 percent, according to the latest CNBC All-America Economic Survey.
Fifty-four percent say the economy is good or excellent, the highest recorded by CNBC in the 10 years of the survey.
The recent headlines on immigration have not hurt his ratings, according to the survey.
The rise in the president?s economic approval comes with growth running about a percentage point higher than it did during the Obama presidency, with unemployment near a 20-year low and amid what is believed to be a very strong quarter for growth. That has translated into positive views by the public on the economy that are reaching new records for the survey.
On specific policies, the president?s biggest winners are tax cuts for individuals and businesses and renegotiating trade deals.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/25/majority-of-americans-approve-of-trumps-handling-of-the-economy.html
morekaos
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Winning!! leads to this...
Why the Left Is Having a Nervous Breakdown
The Left is having the worst flu season ever. Almost all of them have been infected by Trump Derangement Syndrome to such a degree that they can't see or think straight. It's a plague year -- make that two years -- and we're living it. Oh, how we're living it!
Self-destructive, nincompoop behavior is rampant with members of the so-called Resistance (what a desecration of the real Resistance that is!) now showing up at restaurants to harass members of the administration while they eat. Do these clowns have any idea how that plays in Middle America? Do these people think they are accomplishing anything but their own defeat?
And how about yet another Fonda hoping Trump's young son would be locked in a cage with pederasts? Does that aging Hollywood nitwit actually think he's influencing public opinion in his direction by saying that? Has he had a lobotomy?
The problem is that it's not just Hollywood lamebrains and jejune social justice idiots that have been infected, it's the entire liberal/progressive side of the country, starting with the literary/media elites who give them their marching orders.
They are all having a nervous breakdown and it keeps getting worse, because... because.... because Trump.
https://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/why-the-left-is-having-a-nervous-breakdown/
Why the Left Is Having a Nervous Breakdown
The Left is having the worst flu season ever. Almost all of them have been infected by Trump Derangement Syndrome to such a degree that they can't see or think straight. It's a plague year -- make that two years -- and we're living it. Oh, how we're living it!
Self-destructive, nincompoop behavior is rampant with members of the so-called Resistance (what a desecration of the real Resistance that is!) now showing up at restaurants to harass members of the administration while they eat. Do these clowns have any idea how that plays in Middle America? Do these people think they are accomplishing anything but their own defeat?
And how about yet another Fonda hoping Trump's young son would be locked in a cage with pederasts? Does that aging Hollywood nitwit actually think he's influencing public opinion in his direction by saying that? Has he had a lobotomy?
The problem is that it's not just Hollywood lamebrains and jejune social justice idiots that have been infected, it's the entire liberal/progressive side of the country, starting with the literary/media elites who give them their marching orders.
They are all having a nervous breakdown and it keeps getting worse, because... because.... because Trump.
https://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/why-the-left-is-having-a-nervous-breakdown/
Weak on school safety. He likes to tear families apart. But wait there?s more he wants to take away due process away.
The GOP had an immigration bill to fund the wall and then not to separate families. But then Trump signed an executive order to not separate families. As such, are the kids being used as a token to fund the wall?
The GOP had an immigration bill to fund the wall and then not to separate families. But then Trump signed an executive order to not separate families. As such, are the kids being used as a token to fund the wall?
Irvinecommuter
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eyephone said:
The order is also a scam...it completely violates the Flores settlement.
Irvinecommuter said:
Trump is using the most vulnerable as a battering ram in his ongoing attack on the rule of law.
If he can deny them of due process, brown skinned American citizens are next (Asians, don't count yourself as safe either) . How long before the new chant at his rallies becomes "lock them all up " ?
irvinebullhousing
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fortune11 said:
There a saying there goes the neighborhood. I am saying there goes "IRVINE"
Irvinecommuter
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Hey look at the bright side -- at-least no one is targeting a pizza shop with guns over some crazy Fox News conspiracy theory on Clinton and pedophilia
Hilariously enough the people on the ceiling over Sanders having to drive another block away to eat a nice dinner are the people who cant shut up for five minutes about how America's gone soft : )
Hilariously enough the people on the ceiling over Sanders having to drive another block away to eat a nice dinner are the people who cant shut up for five minutes about how America's gone soft : )
The Red Hen owner is right
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opin...t-decorum-stop-donald-trump-column/731475002/
The owner of the Red Hen restaurant in Washington, D.C., ?has been bombarded with calls, emails and mistaken Yelp reviews ? including death threats. Over the weekend, someone egged the restaurant,? reports the Washingtonian magazine.
?Let the Trump team eat in peace,? inveighed The Washington Post editorial board. The same newspaper?s James Hohmann warned that this incident, along with similar acts of public shaming, ?risk backfiring by playing into Trump?s hands.?
?This is exactly what Trump wants,? insisted #NeverTrump Republican Tom Nichols.
A Jeb Bush-like response won't stop this
The problem is these critics are doing exactly what Trump?s fans did. They're attacking those with no power for trying to make their voices heard amid the shrill screams of the biggest demagogue ever to sit in the Oval Office. They're aiming their rhetorical eggs in the wrong direction.
The fear of giving Trump exactly what he wants and thus empowering him into even greater horrors is often used as a cudgel. Critics use it to bash almost anyone who makes the brave decision to risk rebuke from the most powerful man in the world ? a man who wields that power the way a 2-year-old wields a rattle ? and his rabid fans.
These lecturers imagine that a measured, monotone Jeb Bush-like response to the Trump administration will make this all stop somehow.
Ralph Northam outperformed every Virginia Democratic candidate for governor in decades by running a campaign that focused on pocketbook issues such as expanding Medicaid and raising the minimum wage to $15. But that didn?t stop Republican opponent Ed Gillespie from trying to turn former Army surgeon Northam into a member of the MS-13 fan club.
Nothing we can do will stop Trump from trying to paint all immigrants as criminals and all Democrats as enablers of these vile ?invaders.?
That?s because Trump?s goal isn?t to stop undocumented immigration, which is already near historic lows. It?s to scapegoat the most vulnerable people he can find to help him win elections and reduce the legal immigration his party believes will make Republicans uncompetitive as a national party in the near future.
Pretend this is normal, or do something
Once you realize that nothing you can say will stop Trump from running a propaganda campaign against immigrants that invites comparisons to Hitler?s early attacks on Jews, you have to ask yourself what you want to do about it.
You can act as if it?s normal to have a president who lies several times a day, even as the lies increase along with the attacks on health care, LGBT rights and the environment. You can pretend it?s just fine to have a Congress that doesn?t mind being seen as covering up for a president?s blatant violations of the emoluments clause and many other possible crimes. You can go on acting as if everything is normal as anti-immigrant smears turn into what many experts call child abuse.
You can pretend that all of these things aren?t happening in your name.
Or you can do what the owner of the Red Hen in Lexington, Virginia, did. She surveyed her staff, several of whom are gay, and decided to politely ask Sanders to leave.
?This feels like the moment in our democracy when people have to make uncomfortable actions and decisions to uphold their morals,? Stephanie Wilkinson said.
This action had costs, for her and for the other Red Hen caught in the crossfire. But she decided that given what we face, there was a far greater cost she wasn?t willing bear.
She was not willing to do nothing.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opin...t-decorum-stop-donald-trump-column/731475002/
The owner of the Red Hen restaurant in Washington, D.C., ?has been bombarded with calls, emails and mistaken Yelp reviews ? including death threats. Over the weekend, someone egged the restaurant,? reports the Washingtonian magazine.
?Let the Trump team eat in peace,? inveighed The Washington Post editorial board. The same newspaper?s James Hohmann warned that this incident, along with similar acts of public shaming, ?risk backfiring by playing into Trump?s hands.?
?This is exactly what Trump wants,? insisted #NeverTrump Republican Tom Nichols.
A Jeb Bush-like response won't stop this
The problem is these critics are doing exactly what Trump?s fans did. They're attacking those with no power for trying to make their voices heard amid the shrill screams of the biggest demagogue ever to sit in the Oval Office. They're aiming their rhetorical eggs in the wrong direction.
The fear of giving Trump exactly what he wants and thus empowering him into even greater horrors is often used as a cudgel. Critics use it to bash almost anyone who makes the brave decision to risk rebuke from the most powerful man in the world ? a man who wields that power the way a 2-year-old wields a rattle ? and his rabid fans.
These lecturers imagine that a measured, monotone Jeb Bush-like response to the Trump administration will make this all stop somehow.
Ralph Northam outperformed every Virginia Democratic candidate for governor in decades by running a campaign that focused on pocketbook issues such as expanding Medicaid and raising the minimum wage to $15. But that didn?t stop Republican opponent Ed Gillespie from trying to turn former Army surgeon Northam into a member of the MS-13 fan club.
Nothing we can do will stop Trump from trying to paint all immigrants as criminals and all Democrats as enablers of these vile ?invaders.?
That?s because Trump?s goal isn?t to stop undocumented immigration, which is already near historic lows. It?s to scapegoat the most vulnerable people he can find to help him win elections and reduce the legal immigration his party believes will make Republicans uncompetitive as a national party in the near future.
Pretend this is normal, or do something
Once you realize that nothing you can say will stop Trump from running a propaganda campaign against immigrants that invites comparisons to Hitler?s early attacks on Jews, you have to ask yourself what you want to do about it.
You can act as if it?s normal to have a president who lies several times a day, even as the lies increase along with the attacks on health care, LGBT rights and the environment. You can pretend it?s just fine to have a Congress that doesn?t mind being seen as covering up for a president?s blatant violations of the emoluments clause and many other possible crimes. You can go on acting as if everything is normal as anti-immigrant smears turn into what many experts call child abuse.
You can pretend that all of these things aren?t happening in your name.
Or you can do what the owner of the Red Hen in Lexington, Virginia, did. She surveyed her staff, several of whom are gay, and decided to politely ask Sanders to leave.
?This feels like the moment in our democracy when people have to make uncomfortable actions and decisions to uphold their morals,? Stephanie Wilkinson said.
This action had costs, for her and for the other Red Hen caught in the crossfire. But she decided that given what we face, there was a far greater cost she wasn?t willing bear.
She was not willing to do nothing.
morekaos
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Who cares?
Family separation policy fails to dent Trump's rising popularity
President Donald Trump's "zero tolerance" immigration policy, which dominated the news cycle last week and resulted in more than 2,000 children being separated from their families near the southern border, largely hasn't affected the way voters view the president.
Despite public outrage over the policy of separating children from their parents who crossed into the United States illegally, the president's approval rating has not deviated from its recent trend, according to recently released surveys.
The number of voters who say they approve of the president has gone slightly up since a week ago while the percent disapproving has remained constant.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/25/trumps-popularity-unaffected-by-family-separation-policy.html
Family separation policy fails to dent Trump's rising popularity
President Donald Trump's "zero tolerance" immigration policy, which dominated the news cycle last week and resulted in more than 2,000 children being separated from their families near the southern border, largely hasn't affected the way voters view the president.
Despite public outrage over the policy of separating children from their parents who crossed into the United States illegally, the president's approval rating has not deviated from its recent trend, according to recently released surveys.
The number of voters who say they approve of the president has gone slightly up since a week ago while the percent disapproving has remained constant.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/25/trumps-popularity-unaffected-by-family-separation-policy.html
irvinebullhousing
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morekaos said:
Can you make your txt purple? Pink is a bit gay for me.
Trump faces GOP rebellion on immigration as midterms loom: ANALYSIS
Ohio Rep. Steve Stivers, charged with protecting the House GOP majority as chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, issued a statement blaming the Trump administration for ?needlessly separating children from their parents.?
?The administration should end that new policy immediately,? said Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn.
?You can see these children, these innocent children, being ripped from their families,? said Rep. Mia Love, R-Utah. ?It?s absolutely terrible.?
Republicans in battleground districts from Colorado to Florida have distanced themselves from the White House position, with some joining forces with Democrats to try to reverse the policies.
Even stalwart White House allies such as Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah and Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas ? himself up for reelection this year ? are calling for the current policies to be reversed. Every living first lady wants the practice of separating children to end ? a list that even includes Melania Trump.
But those polls have also found two-thirds of the broader public opposed to the policy. In a Quinnipiac University poll released Monday, 66 percent of respondents ? and 68 percent of independents ? say they do not favor separating children from their families at the border.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...tion-midterms-loom-analysis/story?id=56008637
So no one cares? Read above!
Ohio Rep. Steve Stivers, charged with protecting the House GOP majority as chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, issued a statement blaming the Trump administration for ?needlessly separating children from their parents.?
?The administration should end that new policy immediately,? said Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn.
?You can see these children, these innocent children, being ripped from their families,? said Rep. Mia Love, R-Utah. ?It?s absolutely terrible.?
Republicans in battleground districts from Colorado to Florida have distanced themselves from the White House position, with some joining forces with Democrats to try to reverse the policies.
Even stalwart White House allies such as Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah and Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas ? himself up for reelection this year ? are calling for the current policies to be reversed. Every living first lady wants the practice of separating children to end ? a list that even includes Melania Trump.
But those polls have also found two-thirds of the broader public opposed to the policy. In a Quinnipiac University poll released Monday, 66 percent of respondents ? and 68 percent of independents ? say they do not favor separating children from their families at the border.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...tion-midterms-loom-analysis/story?id=56008637
So no one cares? Read above!
morekaos said:
Irvinecommuter
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Kings said:
Seriously...wait a week. Effects of things like this take about a week or so to shake out. Last week, Trump had a like a 1-2% bump because of the optimism about NK. This issue and the tariff stuff will affect him in the next few weeks. Obviously, we have no idea what will happen in November but I can tell you that this stuff will be on TV ads all over the country come election time.