I keep asking myself almost daily: "Could Trump become any more of a d*ckhead?" 
 
And the answer that keeps coming back is always: "Yes, of course he can"

No Big Macs, No Seder!

The spectacle of a self-proclaimed "pro-business" president attacking businesses he doesn't like in the manner of a playground bully... this is our life now.

 R_P wrote: 
and by that you mean sleeping in separate bedrooms?

While Melania is busy fighting cyberbullying...
President Trump proclaims April ‘sexual assault awareness month,' despite numerous allegations against him

(...) "This is an April Fools joke right?" one user tweeted.

When Our President Put His Doctor in Charge of Everything
Nicolae Ceausescu named his personal physician the minister of health. It didn’t go well—President Trump should take heed.

Toddler-in-chief throwing tantrums while tending to his golfing needs

Trump’s Recycling Program
War Crimes and War Criminals, Old and (Potentially) New
By Rebecca Gordon

(...) Fifteen years is an eternity in what Gore Vidal once called “the United States of Amnesia.” So why resurrect the ancient history of George W. Bush in the brave new age of Donald Trump? The answer is simple enough: because the Trump administration is already happily recycling some of those Bush-era war crimes along with some of the criminals who committed them. And its top officials, military and civilian, are already threatening to generate new ones of their own.

Last July, the State Department closed the office that, since the Clinton administration, has assisted war crimes victims seeking justice in other countries. Apparently, the Trump administration sees no reason to do anything to limit the impunity of war criminals, whoever they might be. Reporting on the closure, Newsweek quoted Major Todd Pierce, who worked at Guantánamo as a judge advocate general (JAG) defense attorney, this way:

“It just makes official what has been U.S. policy since 9/11, which is that there will be no notice taken of war crimes because so many of them were being committed by our own allies, our military and intelligence officers, and our elected officials. The war crime of conspiring and waging aggressive war still exists, as torture, denial of fair trial rights, and indefinite detention are war crimes. But how embarrassing and revealing of hypocrisy would it be to charge a foreign official with war crimes such as these?”

Guantánamo JAG attorneys like Pierce are among the real, if unsung, heroes of this sorry period. They continue to advocate for their indefinitely detained, still untried clients, most of whom will probably never leave that prison. Despite the executive order President Obama signed on his first day in office to close GITMO, it remains open to this day and Donald Trump has promised to “load it up with some bad dudes,” Geneva Conventions be damned. (...)

And then there’s always the chance — the odds have distinctly risen since the appointments of two raging Iranophobes, Pompeo and Bolton, to key national security positions — that Trump will start his very own unprovoked war of aggression. “I’m good at war,” Trump told an Iowa rally in 2015. “I’ve had a lot of wars of my own. I’m really good at war. I love war in a certain way, but only when we win.” With Mike Pompeo whispering in one ear and John Bolton in the other, it's frighteningly likely Trump will soon commit his very own war crime by starting an aggressive war against Iran.

 kcar wrote: 
O ye of little faith...

 kurtster wrote: 
Does Trump have any evidence to back up his assertion that illegal immigration fuels crime? I know that asking Trump to provide supporting evidence is like asking a crocodile to fly, but still...

Here's the second-to-last paragraph of the NYT piece about the study: 



The foreign-born data, which is collected through the census, most likely undercounts the numbers of undocumented immigrants, many of whom might wish to avoid the risk of identifying themselves. They are, however, at least partly represented in the overall foreign-born population counts.

 

This guy was scum when he was Derplahoma AG; he's still scum.

drainin' that swamp...

 kurtster wrote:
Um, no.

Seriously...no.

 kurtster wrote:
Is it a Crime to Enter The U.S. Illegally?

 kcar wrote: 
Trump only claims that illegal immigration fuels crime.  Your report only addresses legal immigrants. 

If crimes by illegal immigrants only are compared as a separate demographic unit, the percentage of their involvement in crime is much higher than nearly every other demographic unit.

Roseanne Barr ~grabbed her crotch and spit while signing the national anthem got a congratulatory phone call from trump

Black NFL players who took a knee called “A Son of Bitch” from trump

— MommaT (@tweetmommybop) March 29, 2018

 

Trump's claim that immigration fuels crime does not agree with the evidence. 

The Myth of the Criminal Immigrant

In a large-scale collaboration by four universities, led by Robert Adelman, a sociologist at the State University of New York at Buffalo, researchers compared immigration rates with crime rates for 200 metropolitan areas over the last several decades. The selected areas included huge urban hubs like New York and smaller manufacturing centers less than a hundredth that size, like Muncie, Ind., and were dispersed geographically across the country.

The Best People, Pt. 390d
Pruitt's EPA security broke down door to lobbyist condo

Donnie Johnnie doesn't understand what the Postal Service is for...

#fuckingidiot

 maryte wrote: 
I'll be here all week...
c.

 cc_rider wrote: