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Yeah, but if 16% all moved to Canada, they would then outnumber native Canadians. They could then introduce a referendum to join the US and win the vote. The US would then get all their oil, timber, minerals, etc. You could force them to give up that stupid metric system. You could drive from Washington, or Maine to Alaska and still be in the US. You could borrow a bunch more money to pay for corporate welfare and tax breaks for the wealthy. All kinds of other stupid wasteful republican ideas. Betcha never thought of that! Oh!, and most are still white!

How do you know? Because Ivanka said so? Well, apparently laws apply differently to different people. Or maybe the law that applies to HRC is different than the laws that apply to the Trump gang. Good...no I would say outstanding. Except we all know facts, truth, lies, the constitution, etc. makes no difference to him

Poll: Record number of Americans want to leave country https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/423961-poll-record-number-of-americans-want-to-leave-country More Americans than ever say they want to leave the country, according to a new survey. A poll conducted by Gallup found that 16 percent of Americans it surveyed said they wanted to permanently move to another country. Those numbers are the highest ever recorded by Gallup and coincide with President Trump taking office. During the first two years of Trump’s presidency, 30 percent of Americans under the age of 30 said they would like to move, with 40 percent of women in that age group feeling the same way. Gallup’s survey found that respondents view of Trump’s presidency was the single largest factor regarding their desire to leave the country, outpacing gender, age or income. Canada topped the list of countries respondents said they would want to move to. Twenty-six percent of Americans surveyed said Canada was their top choice, compared to 12 percent who said the same in 2016

Well to be fair to the brown-noses of trump's administration. 1. All the leaks in the administration need to be plugged. 2. Nobody with real qualifications wants the jobs. 3. The legal liabilities attached to these jobs are tremendous given the Mueller "thing". 4. Only one in about five jobs has been filled given most administrations. Mainly because the whole administration is so chaotic. That and the fact that trump is suspicious of every new hire. 5. Finding employees so willing to cover up lies is difficult. 6. Perhaps we should recommend our own Marc? He deserves reward for getting so close to trump's an__.

... This is just an example. Come on Marc. Have you already forgotten about : "A White House review of Ivanka Trump’s email found she used her personal account up to 100 times last year to contact other Trump administration officials, the Washington Post reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the review. Use of a personal account for government business potentially violates a law requiring preservation of all presidential records. " https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-emails/democrats-to-investigate-ivanka-trumps-private-email-use-for-work-idUSKCN1NP220 It's surprising that trump cultists still bring up email as an issue When the investigation into Ivanka is going to start shortly. Yet trump didn't fire her immediately.

A Republican man is missing. He is a leader, mature, honesty is his very existence. He doesn't seek fame or fortune, but instead toils in the back room working for the American state. He is loyal to his party, the state, his family and to the constitution. Soon he will speak and reform the republican party. His name is Mueller.

ProPublica is an American nonprofit organization based in New York City. It is a nonprofit newsroom that aims to produce investigative journalism in the public interest.[3] In 2010, it became the first online news source to win a Pulitzer Prize, for a piece[4] written by one of its journalists[5][6] and published in The New York Times Magazine[7] as well as on ProPublica.org.[8] ProPublica states that its investigations are conducted by its staff of full-time investigative reporters https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProPublica I’ve Been Reporting on MS-13 for a Year. Here Are the 5 Things Trump Gets Most Wrong. https://www.propublica.org/article/ms-13-immigration-facts-what-trump-administration-gets-wrong

Typical of Murdoch trying to make up to trump for his Mueller co-operation. Distract the trump base. The elections brought new leadership one day into their new jobs.Throwing out the pandering brown-nosers of the cult. In electoral districts where the cult is less powerful. In the electoral districts where holy water isn't tainted with trump wine. Evangelical Christians Helped Elect Donald Trump, but Their Time as a Major Political Force Is Coming to an End "Since the 1970s, white evangelicals have formed the backbone of the Republican base. But as younger members reject the vitriolic partisanship of the Trump era and leave the church, that base is getting smaller and older. The numbers are stark: Twenty years ago, just 46 percent of white evangelical Protestants were older than 50; now, 62 percent are above 50. The median age of white evangelicals is 55. Only 10 percent of Americans under 30 identify as white evangelicals. The exodus of youth is so swift that demographers now predict that evangelicals will likely cease being a major political force in presidential elections by 2024."... The result is a shrinking conservative bloc,.. Barry Goldwater, predicted in 1994: “Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the party, and they’re sure trying to do so, it’s going to be a terrible damn problem.”[ AND GOD SENT THE DEVIL NAMED tRUMP] The association of the religious right and the Republican Party has its roots in the 1954 Supreme Court ruling Brown vs. the Board of Education of Topeka, after which white Southerners began to flee public schools following forced desegregation. They opened so-called segregation academies: religious schools that were tax-exempt. When the IRS came after evangelical colleges like Bob Jones University, which officially prohibited interracial dating, the schools were faced with losing their tax-exempt status. That would have meant financial doom. But a Republican activist named Paul Weyrich—with patronage from Western segregationist beer billionaire Joseph Coors—forged alliances with Southern religious leaders like Jerry Falwell and successfully lobbied to soften IRS enforcement. The Moral Majority was born, and, in 1980, it announced itself as a political force by helping put Ronald Reagan in the White House. Republican strategists used the issues of abortion and gay marriage to cement the union and drive right-leaning Christians into the voting booth. So FOX is ringing the bell on top of the white church. The old white republicans are gathering to listen to more sermons. trump and republicans will save the church with the help of the lord. Lying, stealing from charities is all ok. As long as brown people and communism is kept out of America. Praise the Lord." https://www.newsweek.com/2018/12/21/evangelicals-republicans-trump-millenials-1255745.html

How about these women! The Resistance Won't Win Back Arizona's Senate Seat https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/10/kyrsten-sinema-betting-centrism-win-back-arizona/574003/ She beat Rep. Martha McSally, former state Sen. Kelli Ward, and former Sheriff Joe Arpaio. The onetime anti-war protester,Sen. Kyrsten Sinema took Her Oath of Office on a Lawbook, Not the Bible. Today, however, Sinema portrays herself in the mold of John McCain, whose recent funeral was a lament to the death of statesmanship, or Jeff Flake, the retiring Arizona senator who publicly fretted over the divisiveness of Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court. “What’s wrong with Washington, D.C., is that people have chosen to take partisan positions rather than just doing what’s right for their community and for their state and for their country,” she told a group of supporters in Yuma. “We should be electing responsible people who are willing to engage in a bipartisan relationship, regardless of the issue.” or: Lauren Underwood becomes youngest ever black woman sworn in to Congress https://thehill.com/homenews/house/423769-lauren-underwood-becomes-youngest-ever-black-woman-sworn-in-to-congress "Rep. Lauren Underwood (D-Ill.) has become the youngest ever black woman to be sworn in to the House of Representatives. The 32-year-old registered nurse took the oath of office in the House chamber on Thursday afternoon. Underwood’s career in politics first began in 2014 as a policy professional in the Obama administration, shortly after earning two master’s degrees from Johns Hopkins University, according to The Chicago Tribune." and for when the republican party awakens from its stupor: The GOP's Best Candidates Aren't the Loudest Ones https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/01/republican-rising-stars/551657/ Yeah, America will be fine when trump gets the boot and his followers wake up.

So trump is anti-socialist eh? Trump wants $12 billion in aid to U.S. farmers https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-farmers/trump-wants-12-billion-in-aid-to-u-s-farmers-suffering-from-trade-war-idUSKBN1KE1YE These Companies Laid Off Large Numbers of Employees After Taking Trump's Tax Cuts https://www.cheatsheet.com/money-career/these-companies-started-firing-employees-right-after-getting-tax-cuts-from-trump.html/ Trump Administration Wants Welfare for Coal, Nuclear https://www.realclearenergy.org/2018/07/03/trump_administration_wants_welfare_for_coal_nuclear_286146.html Donald Trump: The ‘Anti-Corporatist’ Candidate? https://www.nationalreview.com/2015/12/donald-trump-corporate-welfare/ For those that don't know. National Review is THE conservative periodical. Of all the mystical qualities that Trump supporters attribute to their candidate, the one I find most curious is that Trump is the “anti-corporatist” candidate. Trump? “Anti-corporatist”? Really? (REALLY RON?) "Trump has rarely met a proposal for corporate welfare that he didn’t love.... Republicans have been highly critical of the Obama administration’s propensity to throw money at so-called “green energy” companies. But Trump is just as big a supporter of taxpayer subsidies for alternative energy sources.... Trump’s support for corporate welfare can’t be explained away as pandering to key voter groups, either. It’s heartfelt and longstanding. As far back as 1986, Trump opposed Ronald Reagan’s tax reform because it eliminated corporate loopholes, including special tax breaks for real-estate developers; he warned that it would be “a disaster for the country.”... And it wasn’t just the banks. Trump also supported the Obama administration’s bailout of the auto industry and its unions. “I think the government should stand behind them 100 percent,” Trump told Fox News. “You cannot lose the auto companies. They’re great. They make wonderful products.” Trump may have flip-flopped on all sorts of issues, but when it comes to corporations feeding at the public trough, he’s been steady as a rock.... Then there is Trump’s long love affair with eminent domain. Trump has, of course, famously attempted repeatedly to use eminent domain to benefit his own business dealings, most notoriously when he encouraged the New Jersey Casino Reinvestment Development Authority, a government agency, to seize the home of Vera Coking, a 70-year-old widow, and turn the property over to him for development. In another instance, Trump asked the Connecticut government to condemn five Bridgeport businesses so that he could use the land for a business development.... “I happen to agree with it 100 percent. If you have a person living in an area that’s not even necessarily a good area, and . . . government wants to build a tremendous economic development, where a lot of people are going to be put to work and . . . create thousands upon thousands of jobs and beautification and lots of other things, I think it happens to be good.” Even Trump’s protectionist trade policy is essentially a corporatist subsidy for favored industries and unions at the expense of consumers and non-favored industries. There are a great many corporations — automakers, steel mills, textile companies — that would agree with him. Those of us who will have to pay more for everything we buy, not so much." trump loves welfare, for himself. Expropriation by the state of private property, great idea.

So is Italy, less so Portugal(debt), France(social mobility) and Japan(debt). Two years does not make a broken government. Dems could bring forth a strong leader for the 2020 presidential race. There seems to be massive interest and a huge groundswell of numbers of young women. Romney, or Kasich could cause a rebirth of the deceased republican party. Both are capable of bi-partisan leadership. Two years from now the US will be starting to climb out of the trump recession. With real leadership on the horizon.

What do you see on the horizon? On the horizon?, let me answer. Will Mitt Romney’s senate bid turn (more) Mormons away from Trump? https://religionnews.com/2018/02/16/will-mitt-romneys-senate-bid-turn-more-mormons-away-from-trump/ " Mormons — the most reliably Republican major religious group in the United States — have been unusually slow to warm to Trump compared to other Republican presidents. Although a recent Gallup poll showed that more than 60 percent of the group approves of the president, experts argue that should be much higher, and Trump only secured 45.1 percent of the vote in the state during the 2016 general election — enough to win, but nowhere near the 72.8 percent Romney secured there when he ran in 2012. This resistance has endured: LDS church officials remain vocally supportive of immigrants in ways that sometimes contrast to Trump, and a 2017 PRRI survey found Republicans who identify as “Never Trump” are significantly more likely than other subgroups to be Mormon.... In Mormon circles, he’s in good company. The LDS church itself took the rare step of issuing a statement in December 2015 implicitly condemning Trump’s proposal to ban Muslims from entering the country. More recently, Mormon Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., delivered a speech from the Senate floor in January condemning Trump’s attacks on the press, concluding by invoking “Oh Say, What is Truth” — an old Mormon hymn. Taken together, a perception has emerged that while Mormons continue to skew conservative, many remain uncomfortable with Trump — something Romney could capitalize on. “Mormons have a reputation, and I think mostly rightly, for being generally polite and clean-cut and straight-laced — and none of these things are things Donald Trump embodies,” said Jessica Preece, associate professor of political science at Utah’s Brigham Young University. “There is a style issue that is distasteful to Mormons who are socially conservative and appreciate more traditional ways of doing politics.”... But Kathleen Flake, professor of Mormon studies at the University of Virginia, explained the Mormon tendency to be “emphatically neutral” about faith grew out of a controversy in the early 1900s over an earlier Mormon senator from Utah, Reed Smoot.... “They worked out a particular stance with the federal government in the early 20th century and they’re sticking to it,” Kathleen Flake said. “It’s basically, ‘You obey the law, you act for the common good, and you show tolerance to everybody else — you don’t get in the way of others.’” mmmm So the Mormons believe in a public good, tolerance, obey the law. On the other hand trump and christian evangelicals. Perhaps Romney is the savior of the republican party. Something that Flake could not do. Needless to say he will have to have a thick skin and a iron spine of integrity. Lindsey Graham, Other Republicans Attack Mitt Romney For Anti-Trump Op-Ed https://dailycaller.com/2019/01/02/graham-attacks-mitt-romney-anti-trump/ Religion News Service is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_News_Service

Emotion will most often override logic. I agree. Its unfortunate that more trump supporters can't post the logical reasons for their support in SC. Are White Evangelicals the Saviors of the GOP? https://www.rollcall.com/news/gonzales/are-white-evangelicals-the-saviors-of-the-gop "Amid all the talk about shifting demographics and political changes over the last decade, one key voting group has remained virtually unchanged: white evangelicals. According to one evangelical leader, a record number of white evangelicals voted in the 2018 midterms after an inspired turnout effort. “This is the most ambitious and most effective voter education, get-out-the-vote program directed at the faith-based vote in a midterm election in modern political history,” Faith & Freedom Coalition President Ralph Reed said the day after the November elections.... Reed said “conservative Christians” — apparently a broader group composed of more than white evangelicals — made up 35 percent of the electorate. That’s according to an Election Day survey conducted by Public Opinion Strategies for Faith & Freedom. Previous surveys showed conservative Christians making up 33 percent of the electorate in 2016 and 32 percent in 2014.... While white evangelicals might have been a significant bloc of voters in the Senate, their relevance in House races might be waning. In 2006, Democrats gained 30 House seats while losing white evangelical voters by 42 points. In 2018, Democrats are poised to gain 40 seats while losing white evangelical voters by 53 points.... White evangelicals gave Trump 92 percent of their vote in 2016," Roll Call is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roll_Call The above suggests that except for about eight percent of the vote. trump's base of support, 34% of all voters, arises from christian evangelicals. Which brings up: How US churches exploit tax exemption to promote faith-based politics https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/nov/20/us-churches-tax-exemption-faithbased-politics "With the IRS turning a blind eye, the Christian right is getting its political advertising subsidised by American taxpayers This fall, millions of people learned in church that they could go to hell if they didn't vote for a certain presidential candidate or party platform. Millions more took in media advertisements sponsored by religious groups that made the same point. Let us set aside the question about whether God takes sides in American elections. The more pressing fact about this kind of religious-political advertising is that you, dear taxpayer, are footing part of the bill. According to a recent Pew survey, about 13% of regular churchgoers reported receiving "political information" at church services, and about half of those said they were urged to support a specific candidate or party. So, to use the language of marketing, church-based advertising reached somewhere between 8 and 16 million "eyeballs".... A number of fundamentalist Christian activists have an answer. Matt Barber, vice-president of the rightwing Liberty Counsel Action, spells it out in an op-ed for World News Daily titled "IRS Surrenders: Time for Churches to Get 'Political'". The Internal Revenue Service, he says, has given up on enforcing the law, so churches should just go ahead and flout it. If pastors get a letter from any liberal groups pointing out that electioneering will put their tax status in jeopardy, says Barber, "I suggest a singular use for it: bird-cage liner."

I knew we would eventually agree on something. Other than being a Mormon, Romney is a good republican. Carly Fiorina was smarter than anyone else that ran in the last presidential. She had every issue nailed front and back. It just too bad that issues are frequently less important than image. Less important than a funny or flippant one liner in debate.

To the thousands of people raising money for a wall...... I’m raising money to supply tunnel builders with shovels https://www.gofundme.com/ladders-to-get-over-trump039s-wall Ladders to Get Over Trump's Wall https://www.gofundme.com/ladders-to-get-over-trump039s-wall

Enough with the winning! 2018 was the worst for stocks in 10 years https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/31/investing/dow-stock-market-today/index.html Winning! National debt jumps $1.2 trillion in fiscal year 2018 https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/national-debt-jumps-1-2-trillion-in-fiscal-year-2018 Thats an increase of $9,523.00 for every single family in the US Winning!

Well deserved, but I really admire Jimmy Carter for what he's done since leaving office. Jimmy Carter did far, far better as an 'Ex-President' than he did as President. Truly a decent human being. Perhaps his decency was his biggest fault/liability. He didn't seem to understand how truly evil some people are. Events overtook President Carter. The Iran hostage situation. Imagine if US special forces had the training, knowledge and equipment then, that they do today. A successful mission would all have been credited to Mr. Carter. The 1979 oil crisis was not his fault, today's fracking and US export situation would have obliterated that crisis completely. Those were events forced upon his presidency. As compared to the unending scandals of trump. All of his own creation.

American farmers brace for more pain as Pacific trade deal kicks in without the US https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/31/cptpp-american-farmers-set-for-pain-as-pacific-trade-deal-kicks-in.html "If the U.S. had stayed in TPP, the country’s real income would have increased by $131 billion annually, according to the Peterson Institute for International Economics. Now, “the United States not only forgoes these gains but also loses an additional $2 billion in income because US firms will be disadvantaged in [CPTPP] markets,” the think tank said in a February report. Trump has repeatedly said joining the pact would not have been good for his country. The venture, according to the president, would have damaged U.S. manufacturing, added to the trade deficit and sent American jobs overseas. If the CPTPP’s roster of participants grows, the pressure on U.S. goods overseas would likely keep rising." So US farmers will start, as of today, losing $133 billion dollars a year to participants of the treaty. trump and the republican congress just passed a massive $867 billion dollar farm bill. Those US taxpayer funded subsidies will be eaten up in just 6.5 years. That $867 billion subsidy? Just tack it onto the current US $21 trillion net debt. A TPP without the U.S. would be a better deal for Canada https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/rob-commentary/a-tpp-without-the-us-would-be-a-better-deal-for-canada/article36363710/ The detailed modelling and analysis shows that Canada's welfare gains would improve to $3.4-billion under TPP11, compared with $2.8-billion under the original. Real GDP gains would improve to 0.082 per cent from 0.068 per cent. Big winners would be Canadian agriculture and agri-food, as these sectors would no longer be competing with their U.S. counterparts in the TPP11 markets. Every country in the TPP benefits without the US as a participant. In addition the focus that competition brings to the marketplace will make subsequent US admission to the treaty. Especially hard for US farmers and manufactures. Oh well. For farmers and trump supporters. Decisions have consequence.

What is your explanation for why the criminal enterprise known as "Donald J. Trump Foundation" is being dissolved under court supervision? trump agreed to this. Which is a de facto admission of theft and fraud. Or, it could mean that he is now POTUS and hasn't got time for it. I do remember his saying back at the beginning that he was divesting himself from at least some of his businesses. Most people, including the Bush family(s), Obama, etc. view charitable foundations. As the tax deductible lawful mechanisms to fulfill philanthropic inclinations. Not as a "business" to unlawfully funnel tax deductible gifts, monies into personal possessions and profits. Obamas Gave 22% of Their Income to Charity https://www.philanthropy.com/article/Obamas-Gave-22-of-Their/195541 Below is from The Chronicle of Philanthropy a journal that publishes stories on how real charitable foundations are run. Like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, etc. "President Obama and his wife, Michelle, gave nearly 22 percent of their income to charity in 2011, according to tax returns made public today. The couple reported $789,674 in income and gave $172,130 to charity. The largest gift was a $117,130 contribution to the Fisher House Foundation, a group that provides free or low-cost housing to military personnel and their families while they are receiving treatment at military medical centers. Mr. Obama has been giving the charity the after-tax proceeds of the sale of a children's book he wrote." Needless to say: NY AG's lawsuit against Trump foundation can proceed, judge says https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/23/politics/trump-foundation-new-york-state-lawsuit/index.html "The New York state attorney general's civil lawsuit against the Donald J. Trump Foundation, President Donald Trump and his three eldest children can proceed after a state court judge on Friday denied their motion to dismiss the case. In her decision, Justice Saliann Scarpulla ruled that a sitting president can face a civil lawsuit in state court for actions not taken in his official capacity. That ruling puts Scarpulla in agreement with another recent ruling against Trump, a decision in the defamation lawsuit brought against him by Summer Zervos, a former contestant on "The Apprentice." Hopefully some hard time in prison can rehabilitate trump, Jared, Ivanka and the rest of the trump criminal enterprise.

That's the first I've seen of most of those stories. Are you going to retract this thread? Like trump, Marc believes any straw will save him. As conviction after admission is accepted by the courts. Distraction becomes the goal. "John Barron" (or "John Baron"), "John Miller" and "David Dennison",... Trump's father Fred Trump had used the pseudonym Mr. Green in business dealings." Just as he learned from his crooked father. A new, false, distracting narrative will distract the masses. Just as a teaspoon of pablum distracts a baby from crying. Instead of addressing hard years behind prison bars. Admissions of felonies. Marc, Breitbart, trump, etc. use stories of mischief and petty crimes. Committed by the mentally challenged. As prima facie that all these admissions in court are irrelevant to their cult leader. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudonyms_of_Donald_Trump

What is your explanation for why the criminal enterprise known as "Donald J. Trump Foundation" is being dissolved under court supervision? trump agreed to this. Which is a de facto admission of theft and fraud.

The understatement of 2018. Jerry Baumchen Thats not really fair about Marc. He merely reflects the world view of his leader. No credibility, no respect, no confidence, no integrity. Trump’s International Ratings Remain Low, October 1, 2018 http://www.pewglobal.org/2018/10/01/trumps-international-ratings-remain-low-especially-among-key-allies/ "overall Donald Trump receives the most negative ratings among the five. A median of 70% across the 25 nations polled lack confidence in the American leader. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping also receive mostly negative reviews." http://www.pewglobal.org/2018/10/01/trumps-international-ratings-remain-low-especially-among-key-allies/ trump and America. Right next to Putin, a fellow kleptocrat, murderer and Xi a communist, kleptocrat.

You have made that statement many times and it comes across as a negative value. If that is true, why do you think it is bad? Because it allows his lies to be spun into a narrative which is accepted as gospel truth. I focus much of my energy in my community to serving the underprivileged. Which is redeeming and laudable. But what about the trump racists and enablers. Working to destroy American values and interests. I don't think the highly educated need love. Well, actually they do but, they just don't accept it. They believe they have all the answers. They accept it. You don't recognize the far right extremist trump supporters. Which believe that a toxic blend of lies and policy. Will not come back to bite American interests, home and abroad.

The responsibility for the children rests on their parents. It is sad that they believed the lies from the Dems and marched their families toward outrageous uncertainty. Really? "Decades after the U.S. stopped institutionalizing kids because large and crowded orphanages were causing lasting trauma, it is happening again. The federal government has placed most of the 14,300 migrant toddlers, children and teens in its care in detention centers and residential facilities packed with hundreds, or thousands, of children. As the year draws to a close, some 5,400 detained migrant children in the U.S. are sleeping in shelters with more than 1,000 other children. Some 9,800 are in facilities with 100-plus total kids, according to confidential government data obtained and cross-checked by The Associated Press. Some of the children are being cared for in Pennsylvania. That's a huge shift from just three months after President Donald Trump took office, when the same federal program had 2,720 migrant youth in its care; most were in shelters with a few dozen kids or in foster programs. Some of the children may be released sooner than anticipated, because this week the administration ended a portion of its strict screening policies that had slowed the placement of migrant kids with relatives in the U.S." https://www.mcall.com/news/nationworld/pennsylvania/mc-nws-immigrant-children-warehoused-pennsylvania-20181218-story.html Violence drives immigration from Central America https://www.brookings.edu/blog/future-development/2018/06/26/violence-drives-immigration-from-central-america/ SOUTHCOM chief: Central America drug war a dire threat to U.S. national security Author(s): General John F. Kelly "After observing the transnational organized crime network for 19 months as commander of U.S. Southern Command,... the key to their future and to our national security. Drug cartels and associated street gang activity in Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, ... have left near-broken societies in their wake... Profits earned via the illicit drug trade have corrupted and destroyed public institutions in these countries, and facilitated a culture of impunity — regardless of crime — that delegitimizes the state and erodes its sovereignty, not to mention what it does to human rights. All this corruption and violence is directly or indirectly due to the insatiable U.S. demand for drugs, particularly cocaine, heroin and now methamphetamines," https://securityassistance.org/latin-america-and-caribbean/content/southcom-chief-central-america-drug-war-dire-threat-us-national-security-0

Poll: Few Americans support US withdrawal from Paris climate agreement https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/338550-poll-few-americans-support-us-withdrawal-from-paris-climate the University of Chicago’s NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that 46 percent of Americans somewhat or strongly opposed withdrawing from the agreement. Twenty-three percent were neither in favor or opposed, and 29 percent supported the withdrawal." Talks Adopt 'Rulebook' to Put Paris Climate Deal Into Action https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2018-12-16/nations-at-climate-talks-back-universal-emissions-rules "Among those that pushed back hardest was the United States, despite President Donald Trump's decision to pull out of the Paris climate accord and his promotion of coal as a source of energy. "Overall, the U.S. role here has been somewhat schizophrenic — pushing coal and dissing science on the one hand, but also working hard in the room for strong transparency rules," said Elliot Diringer of the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions, a Washington think tank. The U.S. is still technically in the Paris agreement until 2020, which is why American officials participated in the Katowice talks." One year since Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement https://www.brookings.edu/blog/planetpolicy/2018/06/01/one-year-since-trumps-withdrawal-from-the-paris-climate-agreement/ Trump Hotel, EPA Building Among Federal Properties in Flood Zones https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2017/12/19/474756.htm Trump reversed regulations to protect infrastructure against flooding just days before Hurricane Harvey https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-reversed-obama-flooding-regulations-before-hurricane-harvey-2017-8 "Ten days before Hurricane Harvey descended upon Texas on Friday, wreaking havoc and causing widespread flooding, President Donald Trump signed an executive order revoking a set of regulations that would have made federally funded infrastructure less vulnerable to flooding. The Obama-era rules, which had not yet gone into effect, would have required the federal government to take into account the risk of flooding and sea-level rise as a result of climate change when constructing new infrastructure and rebuilding after disasters. Experts are predicting that Harvey — the most powerful storm to hit the US since 2004 — will cost Texas between $30 billion and $100 billion in damage. And in the coming days, Congress will be called upon to send billions of federal dollars to help with the state's recovery and rebuilding efforts. But because of Trump's rollback of President Barack Obama's Federal Flood Risk Management Standard, experts across the political spectrum say much of the federal money sent to Texas is likely to be wasted on construction that will insufficiently protect against the next storm. "We will rebuild things that should not be rebuilt and ... in ways that are less safe and secure than they should be," Eli Lehrer, president of the conservative think tank R Street Institute in Washington," i.e. let federal insurance apply to flood plain rebuilding so taxpayers bail out deevelopers. Above is just more example of trump using government money to pay foe his properties at the expense of taxpayers. MtrumpGA You should be so happy.