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GOP senator: 'It feels like violence is coming' A GOP senator on Friday evening warned that "it feels like violence is coming" and the president won't be able to calm the nation in the face of it. In an extensive Facebook post, Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) shared thoughts he said were prompted by the violence last weekend in Charlottesville, Va. that left three dead and multiple injured. http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/347205-gop-senator-trump-cannot-calm-the-nation-after-charlottesville Is America Headed for a New Kind of Civil War? A day after the brawling and racist brutality and deaths in Virginia, Governor Terry McAuliffe asked, “How did we get to this place?”... President Trump “modeled violence as a way to advance politically and validated bullying during and after the campaign,” Mines wrote in Foreign Policy. “Judging from recent events the left is now fully on board with this,” he continued, citing anarchists in anti-globalization riots as one of several flashpoints. “It is like 1859, everyone is mad about something and everyone has a gun.” http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/is-america-headed-for-a-new-kind-of-civil-war Kevin Boyle, an American history professor at Northwestern University, watched it unfold, the feeling in his gut both horror and a sense that the racial tension bubbling for years had finally, almost inevitably, begun boiling over. "Given our political moment, I'm not surprised that we've come to this point," he said. "I'm terribly depressed we've come to this point but I'm not surprised. It didn't come out of nowhere." Historians and political scientists have been warning that American politics had become a pressure cooker, full of racial tension building once again to the point of a deadly clash, like the one in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday that claimed three lives. http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/political-violence-didnt-49200760 Well was this the start of something larger? JUNE 14, 2017 Steve Scalise Among 4 Shot at Baseball Field; Suspect Is Dead ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A lone gunman who was said to be distraught over President Trump’s election opened fire on members of the Republican congressional baseball team at a practice field in this Washington suburb on Wednesday, using a rifle to shower the field with bullets that struck four people, including Steve Scalise, the majority whip of the House of Representatives. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/14/us/steve-scalise-congress-shot-alexandria-virginia.html?mcubz=3

I agree with Rob and you. I can see the day when 182s and turbine ac are 99% of whats flying on DZs.

Stephens began acquiring land and slaves. By the time of the Civil War, Stephens owned 34 slaves and several thousand acres On March 21, 1861, Stephens gave his famous Cornerstone Speech in Savannah, Georgia. In it he declared that slavery was the natural condition of blacks and the foundation of the Confederacy. He declared that relative to the U.S. Constitution, "Our new Government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas; its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition."[24]... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_H._Stephens I can see how such ideas are popular with trump and his similar thinking supporters. Check out the latest book by Donald trump "Building Business though the smart Purchase and Management of Slaves"

Imagine. A Black slave born into slavery. Who mistakes good treatment because he doesn't know freedom and equal rights. Imagine a slave ship filled with people who want slave owners to love. Compare that to to those who would rather "Live free or Die"

Sure it was. There are a lot of Southerners who find the actions of the "neo-Confederates" abhorrent. Should we call those who worship the idea of the Confederacy "Rebel-Lovers"? Or how about "Traitor-Lovers"? And your attachment is bullshit. https://www.facingsouth.org/2015/07/busting-the-myth-that-congress-made-confederate-ve All I had to do was enter "Confederate Veterans" into the search and it auto-finished with the questions "Are confederate veterans considered US veterans?" Above link is just the first result. If you don't like it, there is plenty of other sources for it. Perfect example of how FAKE NEWS and Breitbart distribute stories for receptive minds ready to believe. Fundamental intellectual curiosity has vanished even with the power of the internet and search engines. I had the link and the story but you beat me to it. I think that Bannon will be just as effective outside the WH. He will still have direct access to trump, his protege. trump as always will wait to "get his facts straight", i.e. when Breitbart publishes them.

American jobs, good ones, arise from some of the things trump has done. Keystone XL, "Donald Trump signed an executive order to substantially increase the number of U.S. apprenticeships from the current 500,000 (minuscule for the size of the economy) by doubling the amount the government spends on apprenticeship programs." http://fortune.com/2017/06/18/donald-trump-apprenticeships-programs-executive-order-millennials-news/ he is right to go after China for its trade policies. But he has an inherent need to distract attention be it from the Russia investigation, the failures of ACA, etc. Where are the speeches and tweets on specifics of tax reform, a infrastructure bill, etc. They will have to wait until trump reads the talking points from Breitbart. And the scores are settled with Ryan, Graham, etc. who have called trump out in the last couple days. Meanwhile protectionism, trade walls and physical walls. Are dead end dollar wasters. Where trump,Bannon and their believers. Walk down the same road of wasted resources.

He relegates the "He dismissed the far right as irrelevant and sidestepped his own role in cultivating it: “Ethno-nationalism—it's losers. It's a fringe element. I think the media plays it up too much, and we gotta help crush it, you know, uh, help crush it more.” “These guys are a collection of clowns,” he added." but his personal policies are one and the same. Thats a smart way to dismiss the attacks. "Under Bannon's tenure, Breitbart has become reliably and openly anti-women, anti-semetic, anti-progress, anti-immigrant, and anti-nonwhites. Some of Breitbart's most controversial stories in recent years featured headlines such as: "There's No Hiring Bias Against Women In Tech, They Just Suck At Interviews," "Birth Control Makes Women Unattractive And Crazy," "Would You Rather Your Child Had Feminism Or Cancer?" and "Gabby Giffords: The Gun Control Movement's Human Shield." In July 2015, just two weeks after nine people were shot to death while praying in an African-American Charleston church by a confederate flag-loving white supremacist, Breitbart published a story with the headline, "Hoist It High And Proud: The Confederate Flag Proclaims A Glorious Heritage." Breitbart employs Milo Yiannopaulos, a flagrantly racist, misogynist commentator who was banned by Twitter this year after inciting violent, racially-fueled cyberbullying of Ghostbusters star Leslie Jones. This summer at the Republican National Convention, Bannon proudly told a reporter that Breitbart is a "platform for the alt-right." And it's also a potential platform for a Trump White House that could present an obstacle for news outlets without such privileged connections." https://www.forbes.com/sites/ellenkilloran/2016/11/14/steve-bannon-and-breitbart-news-why-everyone-but-the-alt-right-fears-trumps-top-adviser-pick/#79ccb3b139c0 He is right about China's unfair trading practices. Dumping, technology transfers, etc. But aluminum and steel dumping is driving the Chinese economy further and further into debt each year. Its been estimated China's GDP is financed to the tune of 2% a year by debt and another 1% is wasted by corruption. Bannon seems obsessed by China's GDP when the measure of a country should be the health, welfare and growth of purchasing power of equal citizens. China's foreign reserves and total domestic savings is fully matched dollar to dollar by debt. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-01/can-xi-jinping-defuse-china-s-debt-bomb According to the United Nations, China is ageing more rapidly than almost any country in recent history. China’s dependency ratio for retirees could rise as high as 44% by 2050 https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2017/02/21/chinas-aging-population-becoming-more-of-a-problem/#a9b458b140f3 But the US has issues to deal with as well as total govt and personal debt is $41 trillion. More than 25% of which was added since 2008. http://www.investopedia.com/insights/how-will-fed-reduce-balance-sheet/ https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/government-debt-to-gdp

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-16/world-trusts-putin-more-than-trump-in-foreign-affairs-pew-says The World Trusts Putin More Than Trump on Foreign Affairs, Pew Says Of 36 countries canvassed, 22, including Germany, France and Japan, trust Putin more, according to the pollster’s 2017 spring survey. People had more confidence in Trump in 13 countries, including the U.K., India and Israel. Only Tanzanians saw them as equals. Results from the U.S., which was also part of the survey, weren’t included in this question, and China wasn’t polled. Pew conducted its research from Feb. 16 to May 8. Yeah this Putin: https://qz.com/862764/heres-a-list-of-abuses-in-vladimir-putins-russia/

That's so Tuesday, and Tuesday is the past, not the future! Trump is all about the future, and wants the past to stay in the past where it belongs. Bloomberg reported that the Blackrock CEO conducted a conference call with a couple other remaining CEO's on trumps council. They decided that they didn't want to remain on the council. So the Blackrock CEO phoned trump to discuss the situation and trump said he was just going to shut it down. For trump it was "you can't fire me, I quit". SAD

What about "Trump tweets he knows plenty of CEOs to replace the ‘grandstanders’ who resigned from his manufacturing council" https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-leadership/wp/2017/08/15/trump-tweets-he-knows-plenty-of-ceos-to-replace-the-grandstanders-who-resigned-from-his-manufacturing-council/?utm_term=.932137f378eb The disappointment will cause a recession. Cost JOBS!! Trump's Wednesday decision to disband the boards came shortly after two more CEO resignations by Inge Thulin, 3M's chairman of the board, president and CEO, and Campbell's CEO Denise Morrison. "Racism and murder are unequivocally reprehensible and are not morally equivalent to anything else that happened in Charlottesville," Morrison said in a statement, an apparent allusion to Trump's comment that "many sides" were responsible for the Charlottesville rally violence. The members of the Strategic and Policy forum also commented on the role of "intolerance, racism and violence" in their statement ending the forum. http://thehill.com/policy/finance/346827-trump-disbands-economic-councils-amid-wave-of-defections Evidently CEO's aren't the only ones fleeing trump. Is the presidency good for Trump’s business? Not necessarily at this golf course. At President Trump’s golf club in Southern California, there is a driving range on a cliff, with a stunning view of the blue Pacific. There’s room for 24 golfers. But, on a recent afternoon, there was only one. And he was playing with a guilty conscience. “I feel like I’m cheating on my wife,” said Richard Sullivan, a 59-year-old doctor. His wife is a fierce opponent of the president’s politics. She’d recently caught Sullivan with a freebie water bottle with the Trump logo. “Don’t ever go to Trump again,” she ordered. Sullivan had stopped playing full $300 rounds of golf here, but sneaked back to the range. ... Since Trump entered the presidential race in June 2015, revenues from greens fees at the L.A. club has dropped by 13 percent, according to figures from the city government... Charity golf-tournaments, another core piece of the club’s business, have moved away: ESPN relocated its celebrity tournament. The L.A. Galaxy soccer team withdrew. The L.A. Unified School District also moved, forfeiting a $7,500 deposit it had already paid Trump’s course. Hollywood, another source of revenue for the club, has largely stopped coming to film TV shows and movies, according to city permit records. And the club’s wedding business seems to have been affected as well. Couples used to hold big outdoor ceremonies at a city park across the street, then return to Trump National for a reception. Nobody’s done that since November, according to city records. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/is-the-presidency-good-for-trumps-business-not-necessarily-at-this-golf-course/2017/07/17/bda894be-670a-11e7-a1d7-9a32c91c6f40_story.html?utm_term=.12f2ccea01fb

Poll: Trump job approval at 35 percent Just 35 percent of Americans give President Trump a positive score on his job performance, according to a new poll by Marist. Over half, or 55 percent, disapprove of how Trump is leading the country. This rating marks the highest negative rating the president has received by this polling hub. Trump's last Marist rating in June hovered at 37 percent approval and 51 percent disapproval. http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/346754-poll-trump-hits-job-approval-low-at-35-percent So racism, right wing terrorism and bigotry shaved another 2% off his hard core base.

Because nothing fosters free speech as heavily armed people in camouflage outfits. Who look like clowns. Dressed like airsoft SEAL's with comms, etc. I have discovered the training video's for these groups. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBaISwLnrgo&t=130s but this one is far more amusing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dm0BxFZfmI&t=162s

Absolutely agreed! And the more adults in the WH, the better, to keep the toddler away from the stove. And also to keep the WH Nazi's (Bannon/Miller/Gorka) in check. It appears as if Ivanka and her husband are either not around trump enough or have little influence on trump. Clearly trumps inherent lack of any personal coherent ideology isn't going to change. His ego, racist tendencies are a given. If Bannon, Miller and the other extremists got the boot from the WH. As the discussions in the media and trump's statement seems to suggest. The WH would just be left with trumps rambling stupid statements. With possible checks all around him of dumb personal actions.

The latest issue of TIME magazine has a cover story on John Kelly's life & why he went to work for Trump after turning Trump down twice before. Now I wonder just when Kelly will do the honorable thing & resign. A Trump administration is no place for anyone of honor. Jerry Baumchen I never read the story and I understand your point. But he, General Mattis are the only real checks on what trump really thinks and possible disastrous actions. I prescribe some Tylenol and a metal of merit. He should stay. In other news: Theresa May on Trump comments: Far-right should always be condemned http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-40948414 McCain: Trump needs to state difference between bigots and those fighting hate http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/346732-mccain-trump-needs-state-the-difference-between-bigots-and-those-fighting IMO sometimes people confuse what duty to country means. What hero means. It means service like John McCain's to the state. It means McAuliffe said he had just visited with the families of the two state troopers -- one his pilot, the other a member of his protection detail -- who were killed in a helicopter crash Saturday as they helped monitor the situation in Charlottesville. The governor also praised Heather Heyer, a 32-year-old woman who was killed Saturday when a car slammed into a crowd of counterprotesters. "She was doing what she loved," McAuliffe said. "She was fighting for democracy, (for) free speech, to stop hatred and bigotry." and in a separate point: What this shows about the US is the power of a true democracy. Turkey has poor to no democratic institutions and embedded ideology within its population. It has allowed its president to empower himself as a dictator. Rodrigo Duterte president in the Philippines is another dictator who has swept aside democracy and the law in his actions. " Trump praises Duterte's deadly drug war in leaked transcript" http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/24/politics/donald-trump-rodrigo-duterte-phone-call-transcript/index.html The US media, people, corporations and government institutions. Have shot down those who stand for such ideas, such repugnant ideologies. Unlike the people in Turkey and other banana republics where its leaders enjoy widespread support. Or quiet acceptance.

This is surely one of the most jaw-dropping Speaker's Corner posts in many, many years. Nah, the denial of global warming has set a benchmark that can never be surpassed. In Ron's defense I have talked to other people who mix up the effects of gravity and magnetism. About 5 years ago it took me 1/2 hour to explain to a guy how a compass worked in a outdoor store. He knew about GPS but had never held or seen a compass.

What are spring tides? Around each new moon and full moon, the sun, Earth, and moon arrange themselves more or less along a line in space. Then the pull on the tides increases, because the gravity of the sun reinforces the moon’s gravity. In fact, the height of the average solar tide is about 50% the average lunar tide. Thus, at new moon or full moon, the tide’s range is at its maximum. This is the spring tide: the highest (and lowest) tide. Spring tides are not named for the season. This is spring in the sense of jump, burst forth, rise. So spring tides bring the most extreme high and low tides every month, and they happen around full and new moon. http://earthsky.org/earth/tides-and-the-pull-of-the-moon-and-sun Who knew!

Obviously Barack Obama and solar eclipses are the problem. No, BO, socialists, left wingers need to be targeted by authoritarian leaders and government policies. Sinning deserves punishment and beatings will continue until US morale improves. Heavy BLACK, Made In the USA leather boots need to be applied to the heads of protestors if they object to the current administration. Because...after all... TRUMP will make AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.

The president of the Alliance for American Manufacturing has resigned from President Trump's American Manufacturing Council, making him the fifth business leader to do so. “I’m resigning from the Manufacturing Jobs Initiative because it's the right thing for me to do,” Scott Paul tweeted Tuesday. http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/346614-fifth-leader-resigns-from-trumps-manufacturing-jobs-council

Bill maybe I got it wrong...are they not responsible for breaking windows of private property, burning cars, beating people in the streets, throwing rocks at police, trashing Berkley and setting a generator on fire? Or was that the communist party? Then you should readily identify with this deflection of point and substance. http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/346620-fox-guest-confederate-flag-and-lgbt-flag-represent-the-exact-same Deny, counter-accusation and suggest that two dissimilar events are in fact the same. Straight from trump's book.

I think that may be a bit of an overreach. I don't like Trump at all. But still, for Trump to say the 'book is true' is a very general statement, and doesn't mean that he therefore considers every statement in it to be correct, or that he even remembers that particular statement. For me personally I'll leave that 'laziness' statement off in the far corners of uncertainty. There are bookloads of other nasty things about him that are certainly true. trump has a well established history of suing anyone who published what he perceives to be defamatory stories about him or his companies. Needless to say their was no action filed regarding this book. http://www.medialaw.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=3470 http://www.nationalreview.com/article/431575/donald-trump-tim-obrien-courtroom-story A old Frontline story about someone who knew trump well. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/the-frontline-interview-jack-odonnell/

O’Donnell’s report was shocking, but Trump did not contest it at the time. In 1997 he was interviewed for Playboy by author Mark Bowden and he confirmed that the O’Donnell book was “probably true.” http://fortune.com/2016/06/07/donald-trump-racism-quotes/

As far as dictators go he is a curious position. Muammar Gaddafi, Saddam Hussein, Bashar al-Assad, were, or is,all tribal leaders. Jong-un is a solo family leader so to speak. As such, his dynasty could end with a single bullet.

I have a feeling that the only tragedy you see is that your white supremacist colleagues don't look so good. I was thinking that his search engine is Breihtbart.

Two more chief executives have resigned from Donald Trump's American Manufacturing Council over the president's response to violence in Charlottesville at the weekend. Intel's Brian Krzanich and Under Armour head Kevin Plank have followed Merck's Ken Frazier in leaving the council. http://www.bbc.com/news/business-40933391 More and more business in America are beginning to realize that associating with trump is a losing proposition. trump therefore had three CEO's quit and he only attacked one of them for doing so. The black one.

The Department of Justice has requested information on visitors to a website used to organize protests against President Trump, ... DreamHost claimed that the complying with the request from the Justice Department would amount to handing over roughly 1.3 million visitor IP addresses to the government, in addition to contact information, email content and photos of thousands of visitors to the website, which was involved in organizing protests against Trump on Inauguration Day.... “In essence, the Search Warrant not only aims to identify the political dissidents of the current administration, but attempts to identify and understand what content each of these dissidents viewed on the website,” the company’s general counsel, Chris Ghazarian, said in a legal argument opposing the request. http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/346544-dreamhost-claims-doj-requesting-info-on-visitors-to-anti-trump-website Perhaps we are being targeted here as well in SC? and Enough time has passed to reach a very reluctant conclusion. Donald Trump, from his first day in the White House, has been ruling, wittingly or not, in a commandeering style unlike any in American history. Experts in politics, diplomacy and journalism have shaken their heads in dismay and bewilderment, unable to come up with a parallel. His style of governance could be called creeping authoritarianism. Perhaps it is no accident that the president gets on best with Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Nowhere is this new style more dramatically at play than in President Trump’s bizarre, running war with the media. It is a war he will ultimately lose, in my judgment, but it is a war he is fighting to win. http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/the-administration/346492-the-trumpian-threat-to-freedom-of-the-press